3kids4me
TUG Lifetime Member
I was just advised by American that I need to split our reservations into two parts if I would like to ask for an upgrade for my husband and one of my kids. This is because, if they receive the upgrade, we would lose the remaining seats because they are blocked off for platinum members only (my husband is platinum due to a recent challenge I signed him up for). So now my husband and one of my children is on one record and my two other kids and I are on another. We can't even access the latter record from his FF number, only from mine.
My worry is that, with a split reservation, if something happens to the flight (cancelled or changed, which has happened twice already), that they won't know we are all linked. Also, my kids and I no longer have the seat assignment advantages that platinum members get (which I never knew about). For instance, while booking under my husband's record we were in the ninth row, three of us were almost moved back to the 25th row because of the record split. They kept the seats because we are not asking for an upgrade on that flight (we are only going to do it for the outbound because of this issue)...but I wonder if the system will still remove us from them at some point.
Should I call and ask them to recombine the seats and not even bother requesting the upgrade? I'm not even sure they can combine the records again anyway.
Any advice? Hope this was clear. The flight is not until February.
Thanks!
My worry is that, with a split reservation, if something happens to the flight (cancelled or changed, which has happened twice already), that they won't know we are all linked. Also, my kids and I no longer have the seat assignment advantages that platinum members get (which I never knew about). For instance, while booking under my husband's record we were in the ninth row, three of us were almost moved back to the 25th row because of the record split. They kept the seats because we are not asking for an upgrade on that flight (we are only going to do it for the outbound because of this issue)...but I wonder if the system will still remove us from them at some point.
Should I call and ask them to recombine the seats and not even bother requesting the upgrade? I'm not even sure they can combine the records again anyway.
Any advice? Hope this was clear. The flight is not until February.
Thanks!
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