I'm not going to comment on what this all means, as every time I fly on AF or KL with a Delta ticket the experience seems to be different. So, without comment:
- Booked Skymiles trip to Europe for my Platinum self and my no-status son (at least no SM status). Air France to Europe, KL back. Flights coded AF and KL, not DL.
- Went to AF site and reserved bulkhead seats, KL site and tried to book EC but it wanted money. Interestingly, it wanted to charge me half as much for my seat as for my son, apparently recognizing my Plat status but applying a 50% instead of the proper 100% discount.
- Looked at the Delta site and the AF seats not reflected. Looked later in the day at the Delta site, and I now had AF seats - two middle seats (middle middle, no aisle), then went to AF site and found that AF now had those same horrible seats.
- Changed back to the good seats on AF. Looked this morning and they were still holding on the AF site, but Delta still had the bad seats.
- Called Delta. Agent was able to go onto the KL computer and get us two EC seats, which are now reflected on klm.com but not delta.com. I also had her remove the bad AF seat assignment from the Delta site, so now there are no seats showing on the Delta flight for the AF segment, and the good seats are still show on the AF site.