[ba747fan1]

It did affect golds early on and I still was not fussed.

In fact, on UK domestic, I prefer sitting in row 1 or 2 as is quicker exit off the plane and allows me to enjoy a free drink and snack faster before a quick nap. I would never go for the middle of the plane.

And for Europe, i would tend to go Club Europe due to some of the good fares.

So no it would not bother me as a gold if they blocked emergency exits seats for all. I actually think it should be done at the gate or check in to ensure someone who meets the criteria sits there.

[FDOS_UK]

LOL – most gold members were affected for ~ 2 days 🙂

[FDOS_UK]

10 weeks and counting.

All silent on the BA comms front.

[ba747fan1]

It was only 3 days since you last reminded us! A friend who is silver and could not reserve phoned up the Exec club and got an exit seat without a problem!

[MrMichael]

Thank the crows, for a horrible couple of days I thought this thread was over.

[FDOS_UK]

ba747fan1 – 16/04/2016 19:51 BST

How many hours before check-in? I can get them on the website at -72, but the call centre cannot allocate them to me, before then.

I’m just going to count the weeks off, as they build – 10 is quite a while to fix an IT problem, isn’t it? In my days of programme management, I would have removed the senior IT manager after so long and found someone who could deliver results.

[ba747fan1]

It is just under 2 weeks away – I believe it was more done in a way that the charge was waived as a slilver member (rather than automatic entitlement but I may be wrong!).

Not sure I would remove the IT manager but perhaps the comminications / PR manager as seems more likely a change of policy.

[FDOS_UK]

Are you sure it was a short haul flight? silvers pay for exit rows on long haul flights (basically where the word ‘world’ is involved in the cabin description.

[ba747fan1]

It was to amsterdam.

[FDOS_UK]

Strange sounds like another failure mode, as I (and the other silvers I know) can’t even pay, the seats are just blocked, until -72 hours.

Having just selected seats for two domestics, the overwing exit rows (both A320) were completely empty, which kind of tells its own story – I took row 1 in both cases, to get off quickly, but was surprised to see no overwings allocated.

[CXDiamond]

Shocking that this is not yet fixed.

[FDOS_UK]

Welcome to week 11.

The BA IT team has held a meeting about it this week and we have exclusive footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h14Dn8_JyM

[MrMichael]

I am figuring this thread is now a regular feature of the BT forum 🙂

[FDOS_UK]

Welcome to week 12 of this ‘glitch.’

I understand that BA has a team of 64 chimps cutting code, on the basis of the ‘Infinite monkey’ theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

[Irons80]

STOP BUMPING THIS THREAD!

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