Timing of International Seat Selection - when does it open up?

[baggyred]

Hi All,

I'm just a Bronze FF, though I do have a QP membership.

I have a flight from Perth to America next month and was curious as to when seat selection might open up in full (or close to).

My first flight is Per>Syd at midnight and then onto LAX at about 10am the following morning.

I've read about T-80 and also other comments about 7 days prior - would that be 80 hours/7 days from my first segment? I.e the Per>Syd flight.

In addition, does the $20 booking fee disappear. Seems a bit strange QF would slug you $20 to simply allocate yourself to a nuffy seat?

In addition - when just travelling domestically, ie Per>Mel when would seats open up for full selection?

Thanks All

 

[yohy?!]

Free seats available at online check in on international

 

[baggyred]

Thanks Yohy - I see that is 24 hours.

Do you know if it is 24 hours prior to the first segment (ie domestic flight) at which point the international will open up at the same time? Or will each segment roll out at precisely 24 hours prior to departure time?

 

[flyingfan]

Do you know if it is 24 hours prior to the first segment (ie domestic flight) at which point the international will open up at the same time? Or will each segment roll out at precisely 24 hours prior to departure time?

I always suspected that once the first flight on an outbound (or inbound) leg is available for check-in, the rest become available - that seemed to explain why even when I was very quick with OLCI, logging on as soon as it was T-0, I didn't get sequence 1 or 2 because there were others who'd managed to check in before me from an earlier connecting sector. I would have guessed this applies whether it's two domestic connections, INT-DOM, DOM-INT or some other variation. I don't have confirmation of the answer though.

 

[richie9x]

I don't have any first hand experience from a no status point of view. But from what I understand is that if you pay for seat selection you get a lot greater choice available to you than for example a silver who hasn't paid.

You be able to select your seat when you check in. As you have a domestic connection you'll be able to online check in for both flights 24 before the start of the first flight. This will give you quite a head start over people who haven't selected their seats yet. The very best seats will have probably already been selected, but you'll have a good choice of what left for no extra cost.

 

[medhead]

Free seat selection is available for domestic flights immediately after booking.

 

[baggyred]

Free seat selection is available for domestic flights immediately after booking.

Yep - but not for all seats - they still shadow out the front third or so of seats for plebs like me.

I'm more interested in the int'l flights anyway.

 

[TheInsider]

Yep - but not for all seats - they still shadow out the front third or so of seats for plebs like me.

I'm more interested in the int'l flights anyway.

Those are probably the only seats you will see, even at the -48 mark for domestic flights.
For international if you don't want to pay the fee, it has to be done at online check-in which is at -24.

 

[baggyred]

Those are probably the only seats you will see, even at the -48 mark for domestic flights.
For international if you don't want to pay the fee, it has to be done at online check-in which is at -24.

They all do come available a few days before the flight for me (not sure whether qp has anything to do with that) - i've only just discovered the t-80 in regards to seats, however it would explain why i have been able to update my dom seats a lot closer to take off.

 

[Kangol]

I always suspected that once the first flight on an outbound (or inbound) leg is available for check-in, the rest become available - that seemed to explain why even when I was very quick with OLCI, logging on as soon as it was T-0, I didn't get sequence 1 or 2 because there were others who'd managed to check in before me from an earlier connecting sector. I would have guessed this applies whether it's two domestic connections, INT-DOM, DOM-INT or some other variation. I don't have confirmation of the answer though.

That is also my "suspicion", if the flights are on the same PNR. Especially when you OLCI and get both BPs in the same PDF document. Or if you check in at the terminal and they print you both BPs. It doesn't make sense for the first flight to be available but your connecting flight(s) to be unavailable even if outside T-24 for the connecting flight(s).