that airlines charge you extra to sit together!?!?

[Dollygirl2008]

I mean, after a totally shitty year, I have scraped the money together to take my DC away for a weeks holiday to Menorca- possible the last foreign holiday we will have for a long time. And now, the sodding, well reputable tour operator want more money for us to sit together!?!? I mean, do pepper early do this!? Are they really going to split us up (DC is 7)??

Interested in others views or experience, thanks

'Then you do your children a disservice. And all children with additional needs. You have the ability to lessen their anguish, but choose not to. Well done.'

This. Wow.

'Because I don't have money. The cost of seat purchase is pretty much our spending money for the week.'

Then you don't go! Travel is not compulsory, nor is having such a large family your finances are stretched. And it's certainly not the issue of other people who travel. Yet you assume everyone who has pre-booked a seat is rich?'

You'd get nowhere with me.

StarlightMcKenzee Fri 29-Apr-16 18:39:05
We have travel insurance and European certificate

Not all treatment is covered by EHIC and you still have to pay up front and then claim back from insurance. My broken ribs in Austria cost £300 and it took 12 weeks to get the cash back from Zurich Insurance. My MILS replacement Ventolin Inhalers cost €65 in Cyprus and we couldn't claim that back

My finances are not stretched through having a large family but from years of legal battles trying to get basic educational rights for my child with ASD.

We go on holiday once we have saved up the cost of the flights. Only the flights, plus minimal baggage.

'They think they are so special that they can wave their fancy money around and then force families apart due to bagging seats.'

What an awful fuck you attitude. Plenty of people have saved hard for their holiday. Or they are on pensions or limited incomes. Some who travel are even bereaved. Some have mental health conditions or mobility issues and pre-book to ensure their needs are best met.

We travel to the US yearly and my folks pay for it out of their limited income/pension because my father is too old and frail to travel here to see his surviving grandchildren and we cannot afford it. They pay to pre-book our seats together as they know DS has ASD and I have anxiety issues about sitting far apart from DD2 because DD1 died.

The fuck I'd move for you!

Well then I don't know ex. We do what we can do. We can't pay for seats.

Waving fancy money around to bag best seats and deprive families of seats together is WAY more of a 'fuck you' attitude.

'We go on holiday once we have saved up the cost of the flights. Only the flights, plus minimal baggage.'

And so you expect everyone else to move for you? Good luck with that. Way to go towards inclusion! FFS.

Where do you stay when you get there, under a bridge?

Are you for real?! Waving fancy money around?!!!

Also, people are a family even without children.

By the way Expat I have never suggested that you should move for me.

One way we sometimes get around it is by swapping with people at the back of the plane. Often they are happy to move further up.

Sometimes I suggest someone who wants to sleep in front of my kicking child, swaps WITH my kicking child.

I do what I can to be considerate. It doesn't involve money.

'Waving fancy money around to bag best seats and deprive families of seats together is WAY more of a 'fuck you' attitude.'

We're a family, too. Families sometimes travel together with no kids - elderly parents with their adult children, couples together for all sorts of reasons, plenty of people travel alone and pay for certain seats to accommodate their health issues, but people like you expect you to suck your dick because you have kids. Nice.

Yeah, you sound really considerate.

'By the way Expat I have never suggested that you should move for me.'

That's a good thing, because with that attitude, there's no way it would happen.

As I said, it isn't a threat. It WILL happen, depending on which kid to a greater or lesser extent. As will manic seat kicking, flicking the table/window shutter, leaning over everyone to see out of the window and taking seat belt off during take off and crawling along the aeroplane floor

So if you KNOW that's going to happen, you have a responsibility to ensure - by booking your seats together - that it is not inflicted on another passenger, and you're not nearby to assist your DC.

What ability? Because I don't have money. The cost of seat purchase is pretty much our spending money for the week

Then you don't choose a holiday that you can't afford. An overseas holiday is not a right. There are lots of other things to do, places to go. If you don't have the money to ensure your children's safety then you shouldn't go on such a holiday. It's that logical & simple.

Waving fancy money around to bag best seats and deprive families of seats together is WAY more of a 'fuck you' attitude.

You don't wave money around to 'bag' seats. You pay for them on booking normally - no waving of money is required.

Why is ore booking seats a 'fuck you' attitude? No-one is depriving a family of sitting together FFS. Your posts read as someone who very bitter and jealous of anyone who pre books seats.

You actually smear your child in chocolate in the hope the person seated next to them will move? You've also said further up the thread only one of your child has special needs and the other two are 'bonkers' who won't sit still, take their seat belts off and climb across people to look out of windows. I certainly wouldn't be posting on a forum boasting about the awful behaviour of my children!

Take the opportunity with chocolate child to teach them wet willy and other gems!

Where do you stay when you get there, under a bridge?

I was thinking the same thing.

Waving fancy money around to bag best seats and deprive families of seats together is WAY more of a 'fuck you' attitude.'

What a horrible attitude to have to live with. You don't know everyone's circumstances, how much money they have, why they have booked and paid for seats. Disgraceful.

What about all the other people who need to be seated together from a safety PoV? Are parents more deserving? What about carers? Or people with phobias? Or people with physical or hidden disabilities? Or the anxious? Or anyone else who made need assistance of any kind?

ExLt I have asked this numerous times and not once has the "I am entitled to free seats because I have children* brigade answered. They won't. There is no answer or justification.

StarlightMcKenzee

How will you feel when your child comes back high on sugar, and screaming there head off because they have been told that their favourite mystical being doesn't exist.

If you threaten others you will get shit thrown back at you.

Starlight just FYI. There's enough seats to go round on an easyjet flight. £3 each. I pay for those. Gosh... must mean I'm totally loaded with fancy money!

p.s. I don't go for the "best" seats. No priority boarding or extra legroom for me, no sirree! Plain ole £3 seats!

Ffs seriously starlight ?
You still wouldn't move me out of my seat. How fucking entitled!
I rarely go on holiday as we only have one pay as i've been in and out of work for 2 years after being seriously ill,yet i always book my seats!
Don't use the whole no money excuse.
If it's important to sit by your child then pay for it.
The fact that you would risk your child who has additional needs, wow i am shocked.
I book my seats as i have disabilities!
I wouldn't expect other people to help me in and out of my seat, to the toilet, take my medication or calm me down so wth would you except a stranger to do that for your child?
I'd feel really bad if your child ended up next to my dh and i, as i'm a very nervous flier.
Your chocolate covered child wouldn't bother me, anxiety meds, headphones and very loud metal music and your child is invisible.
Your child may even have picked up a few new words when you saw him next

I paid the fancy money not to be seated near my children

'How will you feel when your child comes back high on sugar, and screaming there head off because they have been told that their favourite mystical being doesn't exist. '

Tempting, eh? Teach 'em a few choice words. 'Now call your mother that.' Here, have a Fruit Shoot (full of aspartame, my son goes off the rails on that). 'Hey, hey, did you know that Santa and the Tooth Fairy aren't real?' Some choice films on my laptop, too.

boney oh yes. My dh would not hesitate to ne honest if a parent pulled this shit. My biker husband is also covered in gory bloody tats, not all kids have liked it!
You also would probably not like what we would bring to watch on our portable dvd player

Or anyone else who made need assistance of any kind?

I think anyone who needs special assistance, and can prove it, should be allowed to sit with a family member or carer free of charge. I don't think they should be able to choose where they sit, just that they will be allocated seats together.

I appreciate this may be hard to implement, but small children with a parent is an obvious one. As would be anyone who has booked special assistance with the airline due to medical needs.

They think they are so special that they can wave their fancy money around and then force families apart due to bagging seats

Oh, I would never do anything so vulgar as waving my money around. It's a black credit card, dahlink.

And of course, I pore over seating plans planning for ages to find just the seat to split up far more poor but 'umble deserving families than mine. Not.