Seperate booking, same credit card, same airline/airline no. = seat together?

[TN Nguyen]

If i book my flight and my partner flight separately but match the same flight number and departure hours with the same airtline, can we check- in and be seated together? reason for this is because i'm currently searching online for the best available deal, and to make things harder my partner decided to stay back with family for an extra week- hence there's no option of booking together with a different return date.

edit: added some info

currently looking at virgin/delta as they are the cheapest so far.

 

[opusman]

Unless you're able to pick your seats online in advance (even if you have to pay), then unfortunately there's no guarantee you would be seated together.

 

[Mattg]

What airline/s are you looking at?

 

[TN Nguyen]

What airline/s are you looking at?

virgin/delta

 

[Mattg]

virgin/delta

Ah ok. I don't have any experience with them, but hopefully someone will know.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

If i book my flight and my partner flight separately but match the same flight number and departure hours with the same airtline, can we check- in and be seated together? reason for this is because i'm currently searching online for the best available deal, and to make things harder my partner decided to stay back with family for an extra week- hence there's no option of booking together with a different return date.

edit: added some info

currently looking at virgin/delta as they are the cheapest so far.

If it's two separate bookings, the airline won't have any way of knowing you are travelling together, so won't automatically allocate you seats together.

You'll need to take your own measures to secure seats together by whatever means you can, or as a last resort, check at the airport.

 

[Sdtravel]

I keep deleting my post instead of editing. Stupid mobile

Qf can get it done.
Had a family trip where I left days after everyone else but we shared a return flight.
Also had a syd to bne where it was 2 bookings but exact same flights.

Called qf with booking numbers and they linked it all.
Up until checkin you can't tell there is a link but once checkin came online i could check everyone in on my booking even though they were not on it.

So just call them up and have the booking references handy and tell them the shared flights.

Qf can do it why would virgin or delta not be able to

 

[eric2011]

Welcome to AFF, you may have to be first off the mark when OLCI happens usually at T24