Seat Allocation on Classic Award Booking

[elbarr]

I have a classic seat award booking in J for Feb 2012 for my wife and I flying BBN to LA. Straight after the booking I made the seat selections, making sure we were on the upper deck. Last week I checked the booking again only to notice that we no longer had any allocated seats. This has happened to me before on classic seat bookings. Does anyone know why and if I can stop this happening?

 

[serfty]

That's one thing that happens from time to time, not just classic awards..

Can you re-select the same seats?

 

[lightie]

I have had that happen to me early this year on "buying" a business class seat, on BA, was allowed to select my seat in upper deck then was taken off me and I was told I had to pay for the selection $125, but finally got what I wanted at 24 hour check in selection. I had slipped from from OW Sapphire as hadn't flown for a while, this year I am again OW Sapphire and had no trouble selecting the seats I wanted in upper deck for next year's trip. Do you think this could be the reason this happened because of "status"?

 

[elbarr]

I can't select the same seats as they are now blocked or re-allocated.
I have during the year slipped from Gold to Silver so that may be the answer. Having said that I have had the same thing happen in the past when I was Gold and travelling a lot.
It would be nice if they told you what they were doing and why.