To not book reserved flight seats for us and the kids?

[LittlePudding1]

Hi, I have a 6 year old and a 3 year old and was under the impression that even if we weren't all sat together together on a plane they would sit me with 1dc and dh with the other but a couple of people have told me they can sit you anywhere. Surely they wouldn't sit a 3 year old away from a parent and next to a random stranger, would they?

Bu I' not angry Celtic. That's the whole point. If you and others want to froth about the injustice of it all and make your children suffer as a result, then you are welcome to do so. I, and my kids, will float unto the plane in a cloud of excited holiday anticipation, settle into our pre booked seats and enjoy the adventure (with earphones firmly plugged in)
If you want to plough on stressed and harassed with small toddlers in tow and then get arsey because you're not all seated together then that is your perogative.

How many seats on a ryanair type plane have the double mask thing then?

Incidentally "Why is it my problem that they didn't have oxygen masks?"

Erm, basic humanity? Not sure I have understood your question correctly there.

I'm not sure anyone "floats" onto a ryanair flight, TBH.

Except me when I am travelling for work and wouldn't think twice about moving so a toddler could sit with it's parent / carer.

Boggling.

megsmouse you are really missing the point... I'd still be sitting in seats that we weren't supposed to be sitting in.

SELF INTEREST! I suppose that asking people to move to accommodate you isn't int he least bit self centred or in self interest!

Concrete blonde said it so eloquently:
I, and my kids, will float unto the plane in a cloud of excited holiday anticipation, settle into our pre booked seats and enjoy the adventure (with earphones firmly plugged in)
If you want to plough on stressed and harassed with small toddlers in tow and then get arsey because you're not all seated together then that is your perogative.

BUT also you are wrong to push that stress and hassle onto me because i'm sitting in the seat you didnt have the foresight to book

You can have your drama's, but dont make them my problem.

But there could be lots of other reasons why the parent hadn't managed to pre book. What if they had booked late, an emergency in their home country which meant they had to fly last minute with their baby. And tomorrow you would seriously have the airline offload that person and their baby. Even if they offered to move your family too because the seats are not on the manifest??. I would honestly seek help for your fears, they are totally irrational. To see a mother and baby offloaded, or without possible oxygen, rather than move is really quite shocking.

Yeah the ones who wont pay for their children to sit near them. £8.50 per adult and £4 per child so £12.50 for peace of mind...shocking.

If I had wanted to prebook with Ryanair over the phone it would have cost £240!!! Adds a fair old whack to the price of a quick week away.

So you think that if people book the seats with the double breathy things, and are alone, then it is OK for people with under 2s on laps to sit in seats with one oxygen mask.

I find that rather callous, I have to say.

if I was on a flight and the attendant said, oh hey, you in a 2 oxygen mask seat, please can you move over there so that these 2 people (parent and baby) can have the two oxygen mask seat, i wouldn't say no.

I mean, holy crap, that's just, wow. There are (thankfully) not many people around like that (reassures lurkers).

twofalls I'm baffled by your (and other responses) that i should skip gaily around the cabin with no regard to my own feelings.

I should put all my feelings aside so that someone else's feelings can be taken into account.

I don't need help for my fears. I manage them quite well, thank you very much. I need to book seats and then be left alone to enjoy them, without being involved in other peoples dramas, that's what i need!

Self interest? You accuse others of?

You say you don't care having double oxygen and leaving parent & baby with 1/2 each!

And you call self interest?

Jesus christ.

Hope you never get involved in any kind of emergency situation. I am envisaging trample trample and that is never helpful.

Shocking! Deranged!

Can I suggest an extra sangria before you all board ? I sincerely hope that none of the professionally outraged amongst you are on my flight

tomorrow because what you are saying is that you will take more resources than you need, even though it means someone else dying, when they don't need to. And not in a theoretical way, but in a "just looked them in the face and told them to piss off and I don't give a fuck" way.

The oxygen isn't there for larks.

OK planes don't decompress often but you have stated your case.

nicetabbard where did i say that it is OK for people with under 2s on laps to sit in seats with one oxygen mask

she actually sat in a different double masked seats with someone who didn't mind moving. I mind moving.

If they cant fly safely..... ITS NOT MY PROBLEM.

Oh and if you cant afford the £240 with ryanair seat booking... may i humbly suggest you don't go? youd rather have your kids half a plane away than pay the money.... how would you live with yourself if something happened and you weren't there, right beside them? oh wait... i know... you'd blame me for not moving seats.... not yourself, no never yourself.

You'd rather inconvenience other people than book seating that is acceptable to you? THATS madness, and selfish. oh yeah, the whole plane will wait while you and your kids are shuffled into seats... while you've paid 240 less than them.

Hope you are not on my plane.

when did i laugh in a dying kiddies face?

Its time you lot were in bed... you're all getting silly now.

megs why am i selfish to want to sit in seats that i've booked?

I'm baffled, honestly.

my problems are my problems.... i dont foist them on you.

i wouldn't fly on an airline which doesn't prebook seats with the children, because I suffer from anxiety.

I travel on them for work, because I am not anxious when with the children. It is fine. I have never refused a request to move, and I certainly would never take up a double oxygen mask seat if a parent with a child needed it.

Oh here

"If they cant fly safely..... ITS NOT MY PROBLEM."

Nice.

When I was 9 I was allocated a seat away from my mum flying London to Washington. BA upgraded us to business to allow us to sit together :-)

I think those of you on budget airlines should stop moaning about the price. If you want to be treated well go on a proper airline. Cattle class is just that.

See Tomorrow - you have caused the deaths of dozens of people on planes. DOZENS. HUNDREDS. all those babies gasping for oxygen whilst you sit by reading yer Hello and eating a £7 muffin Won't somebody think of the children ?????

Meg -you are starting to sound a leetle bit hysterical

But tomorrow you said you wound have them off the plane rather than move. It's a seat for crying out loud like all the other seats. Only yours had an extra oxygen mask you didn't need, someone else did and perhaps they didn't know you had to pre book those type if seats. I wouldn't have done.

And noone is addressing my point about those who perhaps booked last minute and couldn't reserve seats. It happens.

No it's the AIRLINE'S problem and they should be seating vulnerable people appropriately rather than encouraging anxiety in order to make more money.

FGS.

Having said that I don't want you anywhere near me in an emergency, tomorrow

There's an extra oxygen mask per row, usually the middle seat, so it doesn't matter which lap the child is sitting on, you just grab the extra. It's why airlines will only allow one infant on a lap on most planes.

concrete the masks and safety protocols are there for a reason.

passenger airline emergencies are rare, but the stuff is there for a reason.

otherwise why not take out the masks and jackets and save a lot of weight.