Seat Assignment

The Amadeus system provides you with the ability to place seat requests into PNR for your passengers.

This is often known as Advance Seat Reservation because you would normally obtain your seat allocation when at the airport.Advance seat Request entries can only be made for flight segments with one of the following status codes - HK , RR , KK , TK , LK , SS , KL.

There are three types of seat assignment requests:
· Basic Seat Request
· Specific Seat Request
· Seat Wish
Basic Seat Request
Command Format
ST (for non-smoking seat request)
ST/S (for smoking seat request)
Area Options
B - Bulkhead Seat
W - Window Seat
A - Aisle Seat
Specific Passenger Options
I - Infant
U - Unaccompanied Minor
H - Handicapped
M - Medically OK for travel

Command Examples
ST/P3 - Request a non-smoking seat for Passenger no.3
ST/S/A/S2 - Request smoking aisle seats for all passengers on Air Segment no.2
ST/WU - Request non-smoking window for unaccompanied minor
ST/S/S5/P2-4 - Request smoking seats for Passenger no. 2 to 4 on Air Segment no.5
ST/W/P1,3/S4,6 - Request two non-smoking window seats for Passenger no.1 & 3 on Air Segment no.4 & 6


Seat Wish
When advance seat reservation (ASR) (using either Basic or specific Seat request) are not possible, for example if the departure date of the flight is outside the date range that is set by the airline, you can indicate seating preference using a seat wish entry.

Seat Preference Codes
NSSA - Non-Smoking Aisle Seat
NSSB - Non-Smoking Bulkhead Seat
NSST - Non-Smoking Seat
NSSW - Non-Smoking Windows Seat
SMSA - Smoking Aisle Seat
SMSB - Smoking Bulkhead Seat
SMST - Smoking Seat
SMSW - Smoking Window Seat
Command Format
ST/<Seat Preference Code>
Command Examples
ST/SMST - Request Smoking Seat for all passengers and all flights of PNR
ST/NSSW/P1 - Request Non-Smoking Window seat for passenger 1 only and all flight segments of PNR
ST/NSST/P1/S4 - Request Non-Smoking seat for passenger 1 and segment 4 only.