A related question - I have just booked flights SYD-BNE-NRT and HKG-SYD on Qantas for Dec/Jan this year. For some reason, the normal WP selections are not available. For example, on the SYD-BNE flight, all seats back to row 18 (on a 737) are blocked and similar situation on the BNE-NRT and HKG-SYD legs. Any ideas why this might be the case? I tried the Qantas chat and got a canned response about the seats being under airport control, but given the flights are months away this is clearly rubbish. The booking is for me, the wife (SG) and two kids (NB) but normally the seat selection drives off my WP status
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