re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread
For the first flights on our 280K J One World awards next year we are flying SYD-HKG on CX162 departing SYD at 1005. We then transfer to BA32 departing HKG at 2305. We have already selected the CX seats through the CX website but can't select BA seats until check in without paying now. If we do online check in on the CX website at 1005 the day before I wouldn't expect to be able to select the BA seats then although seats may have been allocated to us.
Has anyone had any experience with seat selection when flying CX and transferring to BA? Is it likely that if I wait until 24 hours before the 2305 BA flight from HKG, so 0105 SYD time, I would be able to check in and select seats for the BA flight, or may this not work because that flight is linked with the CX flight? I called BA and asked about this but the person I spoke to did not know.
We were both originally on the same PNR but are now on separate PNRs since after our time in Europe my wife is flying back to SYD and I fly to YYC to spend time in Canada and the US before returning home. Although I've asked QF to link the bookings I've found in the past that when we're on separate PNRs we may not be seated together if seating has already been allocated, even when the bookings have been linked.
