Plane seats - refused to swap

Yes yes if an airline insisted but they don’t insist for frivolous reasons. Like disorganised or cheap parents who haven’t booked seats

No one is being high and mighty and of course I'd have to move if the airline said so.

My point is they could have booked (well the controlling husband could have booked) the seats when they booked the trip. Just like it looks like the majority of the other passengers did.... hence the lack of seats together. I factor it in to the cost of my holiday. Just like the taxi from the airport or the airport parking or the checked in bag.

I doubt they could work around it and they really don’t want the hassle if I get injured. I’m sick of people assuming I’m ‘fine’ because I ‘don’t look disabled’. I’m not marking myself out with a lanyard as it’s nobody else’s business.

Fair enough, but you couldn’t blame the crew for asking you if you choose not to wear a badge. The crew will just ask someone else instead if they couldn’t work around your disability. Obviously it doesn’t work like that as in forcing you to move if that’s what you are thinking from these threads.

Yep I don’t wear one but I need a companion to assist me with certain things. If I was asked I’d say I paid for it, if the flight crew asked I’d tell them my disability and ask what their process was for dealing with it.

It’s a flight during the summer holidays where most on board will have children they want to sit by.

I accept that most of the time you may get lucky, but it’s worth noting that seating a child next to an adult can also be in the row in front of or behind.

I get booking seats can push up the cost if the flight, but from my perspective it’s a non-negotiable.

Learn your lesson and make sure your husband books the seats together next time.

Most airlines ensure that younger children (usually under 12) are sat with an adult even if you do not book the seats. Check what the airline's policy is.

Not everyone with an invisible illness wears a sunflower lanyard. The thought of wearing one makes my husband feel exposed and uncomfortable. That’s why we pay for seats together. If he has a seizure I deal with it, no one else needs to know! Especially if it’s partial seizures etc.

You would be surprised it happens more than you think. On some non budget airlines this practice is common on busy flights at half term. It is nothing to do with being cheap or disorganised. More often these people are swapped to comparable seats which most people accept.

They can do this, but let’s face it, it rarely happens. Probably because they don’t want to risk any hassle before take off. Much more common is cheap or disorganised parents asking other passengers to swap seats.

But people in the same party only tend to get separated on budget airlines. People only try to save money by not paying for seat selection on budget airlines. So there is no equivalent of your hypothetical train passenger on your flights, so nobody needs to move. So what you're saying still doesn't make sense! Darling.

You can be moved by the airline as it is their duty to keep young families together for safety reasons. If you paid for your particular seat then the airline can put you in a comparable seat or refund you. But you are all high and mighty if you think you are untouchable even if you have paid for your particular seat.

My reason would be simply that i had paid for it.

I need an aisle. If you want me to swap for another aisle seat that's fine but not a chance am I sitting in the middle seat when i had the foresight to pay for what i want.
We're going away soon and I've booked aisle seats for both of us. I don't care if we're not across from each other as we'll likely have headphones on but I've paid because that's my preference.

If I can pay so can they

Thank goodness I fly business and First class too. But you know airlines can move you in these seats too if they need to….

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@ParmaVioletTea not all seats are an extra cost and sometimes they are only £5-£10.
It becomes everyone's issue if there are crying children all the way, because they are sat away from a parent.
When the Japanese aircraft caught fire, everyone only survived because the Japanese follow orders, but also because the airline sit families together.

As said you can't always choose your seats at the time of booking. My DD was travelling from Liverpool to Dublin, then onto Chicago. I had to phone the airline directly, quite close to travel, to book seats. Because it's third party.
I booked last minute to go to Alicante for a four day break, I booked seats that you didn't have to pay for. On the way back the airline had separated a family. Even though they'd checked in weeks ago and the seat next to mine was empty, then the aisle seat occupied by a person on their own. We both swapped, after realising what was going on, but why the airline couldn't have easily sorted it out, is anyone's guess.

Well obviously you are not the target audience here. It’s childless single people travelling that it makes no real difference to if it’s 20D or 24D, whereas to young families this would cause separating them.

Well, as a member of your "target audience" @Overnightoatsareyummy, I like to sit where I have chosen & paid for. If you haven't, that's your issue not mine. Thank goodness, I fly Business class mostly, so don't have to deal with entitled cheapskates. Even though I'm one of those awful childless people whose comfort is of no account, according to you.

I think you should take a look in the mirror. I see you haven't bothered to reply to me because you got it horribly and completely wrong 😂

EasyJet’s online check-in opens 30 days before the flight.

Who says I didn’t pay for my seat. I don’t fly budget airlines so all our seats are equal dear. So in these situations, these people are just rude.

I wouldn't expect anyone who has paid to swap. I was just saying when I flew recently I didn't prepay for seats but the children were sat next to me. Also I do think if there are children on the flight they should be sitting next to their adult or near them (same row) but that really is up to the booking system. But I wouldn't expect the flight to have a young girl sit between two men. They always moved me on flights when I flew alone when I was younger (even though then I didn't understand the problem!)

@teksquad Yes, you can pay for seats at booking or at any time up to check-in.

My point was that check-in only opens 24 hrs before the flight, and if you read the Ts & Cs your seat choice isn’t guaranteed.

It's not the same at all. Because in your train situation, I haven't paid £50 extra for my seat that I now must forfeit. And the pregnant person hasn't made a deliberate choice not to pay for a seat, but will instead expect someone else to move at a direct cost to themselves! I have no problem moving in any of your train examples, but the sense of entitlement to expect someone to give up something they have paid extra for on a plane because you didn't, is ridiculous.

Apparently overnightoats thinks anyone without kids should write off their loss because it makes "no difference" to them - and hell, if they're not wearing a sunflower lanyard they also expect the other person to disclose their private medical information!

If they asked me if there was a reason to sit in my sit (as they stated they would) I'd simply reply yes!