LAN seat selection

[juddles]

The seatmap I posted is for me - when I go into my wife's QFF account, under manage my trip her flight is there, with both LAN and QFF numbers, and it shows her seat as row 12, but if I try to change seat, no seatmap at all will load! (We are on separate tickets)

 

[madrooster]

Even though both AA and LA seem to use Sabre, each assigns their own PNR to the initial QF Amadeus version.

As I mentioned elsewhere, the only time I couldn't do it was when I chose an AA codeshare on an LA flight in a quest for more points.

Sabre uses separate partitions for each carrier. That means if you have more than one Sabre carrier as part of a trip, each Sabre carrier will have their own PNR. Amadeus however don't do this and so all Amadeus carriers on the ticket will have one PNR only. In oneworld that means QF, CX, BA, QR, IB, AY, RJ and AB can all share the same Amadeus PNR.

In the case of an AA codeshare on LA metal, there will be two PNRs. One for AA and one for LA - you need the LA one in order to do any seat selection.

 

[opusman]

In the case of an AA codeshare on LA metal, there will be two PNRs. One for AA and one for LA - you need the LA one in order to do any seat selection.

Interestingly you can put an Amadeus PNR into (at least some forms on) the LAN website, and it will still find your booking. If you do this and look at the URL of the page it redirects you to you'll see it has turned the PNR in the URL into the Sabre one. So LAN is quite capable of finding bookings using Amadeus PNR - it's just that after that, seat selection often still doesn't work.

 

[Canny man]

I'm flying LAN on a QF codeshare next week. No problem with seat selection in J on QF website. I also find the LAN app good for seat selection on internal flights in Chile.

Regards
Alistair

 

[juddles]

I'm flying LAN on a QF codeshare next week. No problem with seat selection in J on QF website. I also find the LAN app good for seat selection on internal flights in Chile.

Regards
Alistair

Canny man, up until check in at Brisbane at 0500hrs this morning, my wife and kids seats on the QF metal LAN codeshare SYD-SCL looked great (row 12 upstairs), but when they went to print boarding passes the seats were lost and only room downstairs. Maybe it works better on LAN metal, QF codeshare?

 

[Canny man]

Juddles

I think it probably does. I have had problems with flying on the QF metal with a LAN ticket - I had a seat bumped (from my preference to a less attractive location in the same class) at the airport as LAN had failed non-inclusion of FF status. The info was in the booking but had dropped out by the time I got to the airport. I only noticed when I showed my boarding card and was refused entry to the Flounge!!

 

[Milboo]

This keeps getting better...

We had selected row 43 at booking - being extra leg room seats and was told because it was booked through LAN we were able to get them without the additional fee.

Finally can access booking through QF and bumped down to 63D.

Ring QFF - she assures me there are no extra legroom seats left available on the flight so we have no choice but to accept seats in row 49 and get checked in (airport did it) to secure them.

Actually there are 8 seats showing as available but they can't/ won't change the seats as we are checked in.

Firmed my resolve to go back to avoiding QF like the plague.

 

[opusman]

Firmed my resolve to go back to avoiding QF like the plague.

It's really nothing to do with QF, and all about LAN's kooky seating allocation system.