I booked a ticket through US Airways from SFO-TPE (Taipei, Taiwan) about three months ago. At the time, we were not given the opportunity to select seats when we booked the tickets online. Since then, we've been given the run-around on how to acquire seats. Most people are probably thinking, what is the big friggin' deal? Well, being newlyweds, traveling to Asia for our honeymoon, being able to next to each other on a 13-hour flight IS a big friggin' deal!\n\nHere's the gist of the rhetoric that is given to us after about 20 phone calls spanning the last few months:\n\nUS Airways: We don't have access to their seat maps. This is a flight operated by EVA Air, please contact them.\n\nEVA Air: You booked the flight through US Airways, so you need to get your seats from them.\n\nUS Airways: There is no way we can assign you seats. Since this flight is operated by EVA Air, call them for seat assignments.\n\nEVA Air: You booked the flight through US Airways. Have them make a request for seat assignments, THEN we will assign you seats.\n\nUS Airways: I don't know how to submit such a request, but have asked my supervisor to do so.\n\n(a month passes)\n\nUS Airways: We still don't see confirmation of seating assignments. Call EVA Air to have them assign you seats. They're the operating airline for this flight.\n\nEVA Air: You booked the flight through US Airways, so they need to make a request for seat assignments. We are not able to pull up your records from the Confirmation Code or the Flight #s because those are ones associated with US Airways. Call them for seat assignments.\n\nUS Airways: We cannot assign you seats because it's operated through EVA Air. We can put in a generic request. \n_________________________________________\n\nMind you this conversation has gone on for the last three months, neither airline able to give us our seat assignments. This basically means we have to show up at the airport and take whatever seats are left. Most likely they won't be together nor will we have the aisle seats we requested. \n\nOn both ends, they keep pushing the responsibility onto the other airline. It's always, \"We can't do this.\" \"We don't do this.\" \"We don't have access to this.\" \n\nSeriously, why partner with another airline when you can't do something as simple as assign seats to your customers? We are well into the 21st Century, and it's the year 2013. If you can't put a seat map on the web for customers to select seats when they're purchasing the ticket, you need to revisit Corporate Efficiency 101. How is it that requests are put in time after time with no response from EVA Air, and NO ONE does anything about that? There is a communication breakdown somewhere, but no one cares enough to do anything about it (citing \"it's not company protocol to contact the other airline about this matter), nor do they want to want to improve upon this issue. \n\nThink twice before booking a flight from US Airways operated by a foreign airline. Actually, don't even think about it. Just don't do it!