CX Seat selection

I have a Qantas Award booking in economy with a CX segment. My Emerald appears to be in the booking but when I tried to select an exit row seat online a charge was being assessed.

I called Cathay and after a bit of to and fro-ing, the seat was selected. But when I looked the booking up online, I saw that while the seat had been assigned to me, I also saw a notation of an unpaid seat charge.

The travel is next year, so I left it for s few weeks.

Now when I look it up there is now no notation that a fee needs to be paid. OK, we'll see what happened next year.
Cathay appear to have fixed these seat selection issues and I can again readily select seating without being assessed for a fee as an emerald.
 
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Cathay appear to have fixed these seat selection issues and I can again readily select seating without being assessed for a fee as an emerald.
Yep, our shadow booking on CX (in case QR turns to sh$t) had no issues with J seats.
 

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