Flying Luton to sharm in November. Two year old and lap infant. Ive read all the threads about paying to allocate seating etc and have taken on board comments re not wanting to force someone else to give up their seats so that we can sit together, and possibility that together can be in front or behind etc. However, my question is, especially in light of monarch's recent financial difficulties, and it being off peak, non school holiday time, and midweek, aibu to think the chances of the plane filling up are slim at best- at the moment there are only a handful of prebooked seats showing, and online check in is open, so there would have to be a LOT of people waiting to check in at the airport for the plane to fill up. Anyone have any experience of flying to Egypt in November, or any insight or hints and tips on how i could find out how full it is? Because we are travelling with an infant we have to check in at the airport even if we pay for seating. I just have visions of us paying £60 to cram us all together, and then find that the flight is empty and there are millions of empty seats!