...to NOT pay extra to book pre-assigned plane seats with Monarch

[parakeet]

We are family of four, with our two children, six and eight. It's a 3.5 hour flight each way and we need at least one parent with each child (or one parent with the both of them would also be fine). It would cost us £64 to book assigned seating for all four of us, each way and it seems a bit much. Am I being mad (or selfish somehow) to think "they can't let the children sit by themselves" and let Monarch sort it out somehow once we've boarded, if we have difficulties getting each child with a parent?

I've seen threads on here where people are criticised for not booking their seats beforehand. But to me it seems like this is a problem of the airline's making when they could easily assign seats at check-in, like in the "olden days".

I would definitely like fat people to have their own special part. With their own extra wide seats.

Or maybe sit the fat people next to the skinny children - more room for them, every one happy!

Oh god mobile phone convos on train:

"Yah, Yah...well just tell him...yah...tell him...ya well I just think..yah, yah...just tell him...yah, yah I see that but couldn't you just...yah...tell him..."

Arghhhh

I have to say its normally men who are doing this. I think its an ego boost 'look at me I am in charge of multi million pound deals...'

I for one would not welcome mobiles on planes AT ALL. Why are they required. I can sort of see the need for wi fi of some sort and to be able to use laptops but tbh there is nothing better than to work offline on a PC. No disturbtances and looking at the latest emails....

Some self important business person (and it will be them because their compnay is likely to be paying for their usage) shouting into the mobile for the whole flight would be horrible (not that I am ever sitting up the pointy end of the plane)