90 Day Seat Requests - Permanent

I have a reservation at 88 days with seats selected but the return flight doesn't allow me to select seats, weird system.

I found that you can only book your return seats at 90 days before the return flight, the seats do not open for both legs at 90 days from your outbound flight, its 90 days before each seperate leg

Actually the EZY scrum will soon be moved from the gate to the internet or to check in! - all seating is allocated now!

Thanks,

More waiting then ....

Regards

Thanks,

More waiting then ....

Regards

That's because although the seat map may be displayed, you are not able to request anything until the time of your flight. It's merely the system getting ready to allow seat requests.

To be honest I flew BA to Texas in PE last year and thought the planes, food, IFE and seats were much better than VS. the only failing was having to pay to prebook seats.

I have booked PE with VS to MCO in August 2013 and this is the first time in 10 VS return flights that I have been unable to book seats at a very early stage. If at 90 days I cannot get good seats this time then it will be back to BA in future.

VS planes, service, IFE and food in my opinion has been going downhill since my first flight in 1996 and is at best average, they have lost the way, maybe its down to the bean counters cutting corners

I find it difficult to believe that WT+ is better than PE on VS.

Practically all BA offer over WT is more leg room and a club world main course, none of the other differentiators on VS such as priority luggage.

I find it difficult to believe that WT+ is better than PE on VS.

Practically all BA offer over WT is more leg room and a club world main course, none of the other differentiators on VS such as priority luggage.

I believe ba WT+ has in seat power, and is wider than WT.

So apart from a pre departure drink and priority baggage, what else do VS offer?

BA doesn't do too well with priority luggage in any class, but VS doesn't always though!

So apart from a pre departure drink and priority baggage, what else do VS offer?

Priority boarding. Dedicated check-in.

So apart from a pre departure drink and priority baggage, what else do VS offer?

Priority boarding. Dedicated check-in.

Oh yea

Pre-take off and post meal drinks ... dedicated cabin crew, loos on the Airbii ... VS PE is still leagues ahead of BA WT+.

Pre-take off and post meal drinks ... dedicated cabin crew, loos on the Airbii ... VS PE is still leagues ahead of BA WT+.

Not sure about that. I think that on some configs WT+ gets dedicated crew. Loos are dedicated on the mid-J 747s. In-seat power. Not to mention the biggest benefit of all, namely, the ability to upgrade even the cheap fare buckets with miles!

I am a bIg fan of PE and I think it is VS's strongest value proposition. However, the gap to WT+ is clearly narrowing. For me priority baggage and dedicated check-in > J main course and the cheaper possible upgrades to J, but as the BA hard product improves, the differential is getting smaller. The very cheap fizz on boarding is really neither here nor there, at least as far as I am concerned.

my personal priorities are
1. comfy seat with good leg room
2. speedy DIS embarkation
3. IFE

decent food is a plus,

I can live without priority boardindg (seat will still be there) and fake champagne. starting to wonder how close WT+ is to PE

Pre-take off and post meal drinks ... dedicated cabin crew, loos on the Airbii ... VS PE is still leagues ahead of BA WT+.

Not to mention the biggest benefit of all, namely, the ability to upgrade even the cheap fare buckets with miles!

WHAT I didn't know that !
I only joined the Exc. Club last February when we went back to BA (after getting fed up with VS and their ever more challenging web site) I have loads of Avios and I believe you can combine the two, so thanks for the heads up, off to check out if I have enough to upgrade for February (if they still have availability) y)

WHAT I didn't know that !
I only joined the Exc. Club last February when we went back to BA (after getting fed up with VS and their ever more challenging web site) I have loads of Avios and I believe you can combine the two, so thanks for the heads up, off to check out if I have enough to upgrade for February (if they still have availability) y)

The flip side on BA however is that you can only upgrade one cabin, so WT to WT+ and not WT to Club. Here VS wins.

Also worth saying that (in my limited experience) VS reward availability to North America has been just miles better than BA of late.

No, it isn't a permanent change.

I know we can't always trust what's in a VS email, but this months "well red" states;

Save my seat: We've finished improving our Advanced Seat Assignment, choose seats 90 days prior to departure.

Doesn't sound very temporary if it is finished?

I know we can't always trust what's in a VS email, but this months "well red" states;

Save my seat: We've finished improving our Advanced Seat Assignment, choose seats 90 days prior to departure.

Doesn't sound very temporary if it is finished?

I read that and had the same thought.