I’m in the stages of my Japan trip planning where I’m approaching purchasing my airfare and I’m traveling with my dad. I’ve been stashing chase UR points for a while and have more than enough for an economy flight and my plan was to just book through the Chase travel portal rather than deal with transfer of points. I logged in today to look further at the flights and basically all of the economy flights under $1300 leaving my airport on the west coast do not offer seat selection (delta, Ana, hawaiin) with Ana being the most inexpensive.
My dad uses Alaska air and I guess Ana is a partner so he’s kind of wanting to book through Alaska. I’m wondering, if we book together through my chase portal (or just book together in general on the same itinerary/check out) would Ana seat us together in economy or would our seats just get placed whereever? I noticed there is a lot of groups of 2 with the middle seat available on the flight but at least 8 or so rows with a full 3 seats available..
I’m also wondering, if we book through our different portals is there any chance we can contact Ana or at the counter before boarding to possibly sit together?
Does anyone have experience with either of these scenarios? If we can sit together booking through my portal I might be able to persuade him to book that way as I might be able to put his fare on his credit card.
Thanks
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