I'm booking a trip on American Airlines and my girlfriend has Platinum status for a few more months. However, neither of us will have any status with AA at the time we fly. Because this is a long (13 hour) flight, we obviously want to try our best to get good seats. Due to her status she is able to select the "Main Cabin Extra" seats at no extra charge. Does anyone know if they'll kick us out of those seats before we fly? If so, when will they make the change? If it's when her status is downgraded, that would leave us with plenty of time to change seats. However, if they change our seats right before the flight and we're stuck in the last available seats (probably middle seats in regular economy in the back row), that would really really suck.