EZ Air Seat Assignments

[travellingnana]

Have never used EZ Air before but now have 3 separate reservations for next year.  The first two flights (American and Virgin Atlantic) I was able to go to the airline website and choose seats.  However, the last reservation is on  Lufthansa , and that website tells me I can't choose seats until 24 hrs before my flight.  Has this happened to anyone else?  Should I be worried?  (because I am).  Thanks

[fluffybunny22]

European carriers don't let you choose until 24 hours out.

[Astro Flyer]

32 minutes ago, travellingnana said:

However, the last reservation is on  Lufthansa , and that website tells me I can't choose seats until 24 hrs before my flight.

 

When we last flew Lufthansa we had the option to wait until check-in 24 hours (36 hours for a free seat assignment if a member of their FF miles) before departure for free or to pay a non-refundable seat assignment to chose our preferred seats in advance on their website.

Edited October 7, 2019 by Astro Flyer

[travellingnana]

21 minutes ago, Astro Flyer said:

 

When we last flew Lufthansa we had the option to wait until check-in 24 hours (36 hours for a free seat assignment if a member of their FF miles) before departure for free or to pay a non-refundable seat assignment to chose our preferred seats in advance on their website.

Do you happen to remember how much that non-refundable seat fee was?

[Colo Cruiser]

1 hour ago, travellingnana said:

Have never used EZ Air before but now have 3 separate reservations for next year.  The first two flights (American and Virgin Atlantic) I was able to go to the airline website and choose seats.  However, the last reservation is on  Lufthansa , and that website tells me I can't choose seats until 24 hrs before my flight.  Has this happened to anyone else?  Should I be worried?  (because I am).  Thanks

Lufthansa always has seat assignments 24 hours prior.

It is nothing new.

Some can get seat assignments because of airline  status or they have business class seats.

It is a terrible airline IMO.

 

One way I got around this is to book a United flight operated by Lufthansa. I was able to pick my seats to Rome.  

[Astro Flyer]

24 minutes ago, travellingnana said:

Do you happen to remember how much that non-refundable seat fee was?

 

Here’s what I found on the Lufthansa website & between US cities & Europe it appears to be zone 4:  

Economy

• Standard: €30
• Preferred:  €45
• Extra legroom:  €75

https://www.lufthansa.com/us/en/support/faq/faq-seat-reservation?faqcat=80806&faqname=seats

[ldubs]

6 minutes ago, Colo Cruiser said:

 

Some can get seat assignments because of airline  status or they have business class seats.

It is a terrible airline IMO.

 

One way I got around this is to book a United flight operated by Lufthansa. I was able to pick my seats to Rome.  

 

Agree they are not a good airline.  After being bumped from seats on 3 out of 4 flights, I refuse to fly lufthansa.  

 

This is a while back, but when I tried to book via the UA website for a lufthansa partner flight I was not able to select seats.  But if I booked the same flight via lufthansa's site, I was able to reserve a seat at the time of booking.  As said above, it didn't really matter as I was bumped anyway.  😕

 

Sorry to detour the thread -- 

 

 

[travellingnana]

16 minutes ago, Colo Cruiser said:

Lufthansa always has seat assignments 24 hours prior.

It is nothing new.

Some can get seat assignments because of airline  status or they have business class seats.

It is a terrible airline IMO.

 

One way I got around this is to book a United flight operated by Lufthansa. I was able to pick my seats to Rome.  

I thought of the UA connection, but the United flights offered are partnered with Air Canada.  While I have no problems with Air Canada, they will be (assuming it's allowed by then) flying 737 Max planes on that trip.  I'm not sure I'm ok with that.

[travellingnana]

35 minutes ago, Astro Flyer said:

 

Here’s what I found on the Lufthansa website & between US cities & Europe it appears to be zone 4:  

Economy

• Standard: €30
• Preferred:  €45
• Extra legroom:  €75

https://www.lufthansa.com/us/en/support/faq/faq-seat-reservation?faqcat=80806&faqname=seats

Many thanks for looking this up.