Plane seats - refused to swap

If it is one of the budget airlines your only option is to pay extra to book specific seats together. If you wait til 24 hours before, some holidays will have been sold as packages with booked seats included and the only unbooked seats may be random ones scattered through the plane, leaving the airline no choice but to separate you.

Uh? Easyjet charged me £50 pp per flight, so £200 to chose seats for me and my dd.
These things aren't free, why exactly should i move for someone who is a cheapskate?

The £200 was almost twice the cost of the flights

I’d sit in the aisle for 4 hours for £100 🤣

Maybe they should. But this does effectively make children's seats more expensive than adult seats, which is rather difficult to justify from a moral standpoint.

Oh good God 😂

I have a 3 year old. I travel with her regularly on public transport. We are about to take her second trip on a plane. I know how stressful it is!

I have a disability - for which I have just obtained a sunflower lanyard. It's a developmental disability (i.e. I've always had it) but I've never had a lanyard before - and I've probably flown 50 times in my life. I haven't worn one before because I didn't particularly want to be singled out for my disability, but I've given in and gotten one for this trip. Not all disabled people wear them. There's a reason you see posters about invisible disabilities on trains!

As my disability isn't physical, I will always offer a pregnant woman, elderly person or disabled person a seat during the (minimum) 8 trips a week I take on public transport.

You know nothing about me.

Edited to stay polite. I am out now!

Well maybe the parents should have thought ahead and paid for their seats?

Im disabled and i don't wear a lanyard their a disgrace to disabled people.

I find it odd that their where 4 single men sat together on a flight to a holiday destination during the school holidays. It isnt a mistake their is a thread on here every week about this exact same situation

Absolutely not true. I am
the first to jump seats for an elderly person or
aomeone with visual disabilities. It doesn’t seem you are aware that people with invisible disabilities wear lanyards now.
so spare the lecture please. I also can ask them kindly first if there was a particular reason for them to be seated there. 9 times out of 10, most individuals I have come across have been kind and courteous to the point they help us with our bags or try to entertain the kids.
Im guessing you are the other 1 in 10!!! Presuming you have never travelled woth young children and don’t understand the complexities of it.
But saying all that, I usually travel business or pick my seats wisely.

In the plane scenario, the responsibility is always with the parents to do what’s best and in the context of this thread and that scenario, pay to sit together (if that helps). If you don’t pay for your seats, why would you take the chance upon booking of something stressful happening as a result of you all not sitting together?

Well I think that indicates which 50 percent you'd be in!

Goodness, what a society we live in! Perhaps one day you will need the kindness of strangers, would you want peop to walk by and say "not my responsibility"?

But it doesn't really matter does it, because you wouldn't know or have the time to discern whether they were grumpy or disabled 🤷‍♀️

Not really. Young kids panic about things. They are at risk of not being treated well by adults around them and not old enough to be assertive. If something had gone wrong with the flight it would make things more serious and dangerous and terrifying for the children on their own especially if they were surrounded by self centred types.

Well for one, my seat would be next to DH. Who is the other side of us; I couldn’t give a toss. Makes no difference to me if it’s a child, it’s not my child, it’s not my responsibility.

This is true too. I found that some people moved immediately when they saw I was pregnant and others didn't even when I asked and when I was absolutely huge - though someone else usually overheard and got up instead. Which was kind of them. In fact, what I found a bit amusing was that when I was not pregnant, suited and booted, looking fabulous, men would always get up for me even when I didn't want them to, to offer their seat, yet when pregnant and not looking my best, some men wouldn't move!!

But they have!! That’s your judgment thinking they haven’t!!!’

There’s nothing special about a young family struggling on a plane journey - all they had to do was to pay for seats, like everyone else.

100%, lots of people I know who have children proudly say so. "Why should I pay to book a seat? I don't want to". Quickly followed by how they don't want to seat away from their children. Put those together and it's painfully obvious that in most cases it's cheeky entitlement.

Exactly. It’s social etiquette. Like moving seats for a pregnant or disabled person ir mum with a pram on a train. You move to make all
passwngers lives easier. Unless the single person would prefer to be in the middle of a crying toddler who can’t equalise or have my elbows in their face while I breastfeed, fine by me! It’s of no benefit to them, meanwhile a young family is struggling. But if you are
one of those rude people I hope you enjoy your journey!

I am getting really annoyed about the number of posts concerning aeroplane seating.
There are multiple options to sort this, depending on the "grade" of flight you have chosen.
To give an example. my husband, step-son and I flew to St Lucia some years ago. We wanted the equivalent of business class, but clearly as a 3-threesome, this was not going to happen. We got 2 business seats and 1 right at the back of the plane. No issue, as my husband and I alernated.
Either book all seats together when first booking or suck it up?

The computer will first allocate seats to those who have actually paid to book them. Then, it'll start allocating children next to parents - depending on seat availability. Sounds like no such seats were available on your flight as they had been booked by others. Maybe book them properly next time?

I doubt that. It is mistakes. Parents who are worried about sitting away from their dc are not going to take the risk.

I think what it comes down to is that around 50 percent of the population would move, 50 percent wouldn't or couldn't I am just surprised that all four of the men were in the wrong 50 percent!

Ahh yes you are right!!

Its 30 with E J