£100 to sit together?

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Kids first family holiday abroad... BA want £100 to sit us all together.. Kids first flight they are 4, 9 and 11yrs plus us mum and dad.
Would the airline really sit us all separately? Is paying out really a big waste of money?
Plus Im terrified of flying as it is... I need DH nearby!!
Thoughts please? thanks x

adjustable I don’t think i would be being an arsehole if i had paid for particular seats then refused to move. I would be quite rightly saying that the other party should have had the sense to pay the money to be sat together.

Don't pay it, it's just another way for airlines to squeeze money out of anxious people!

Find out when the online check in opens and check in and reserve your seats then!

but the other passengers will be arseholes if asked to move. I don't understand why, but I've seen it happen.

Those other passengers might have reasons for having chosen to PAY to sit together.
Maybe they also have children, or vulnerable people sat with them.
Or they have a fear of flying and want to be close to their companion - Im quite a nervous flyer so we always chose today to ensure I am near to DH and DD.
Or they chose to sit in specific seating - I like a window, DH likes an aisle as he has long legs.

And I ve never yet seen the passengers wanting everyone to swap actually offer to pay the others for their seats, to recompense them after they've already forked out.

Because they may have paid extra for a specific seat?

Paying to prebook a specific seat does not exempt a person from the moral responsibility to move if a child needs to be seated with their parent. I find it astonishing that anyone could think this way.

Why am I an asshole for not being prepared to move from my seat?

If I have paid for it why should I. The customers that aren't seated together choose not too pay it so why should I give up my seat for them.

Moral responsibility

Parent's responsibility, more like

I obviously have no morals then. Fuck that!

How big is the plane? You might need to separate anyway.

Someone's going to be across an aisle (if I read correct there are 5 of you) at the very least.

So because that person has a child, they don't have to pay for seats but I do and give up my seat despite paying?

Paying to prebook a specific seat does not exempt a person from the moral responsibility to move if a child needs to be seated with their parent.

Parents also have a moral responsibility to ensure they're seated with their children 🙄 There's always one......

It's a bit like the Prisoners Dilemma.

If no one pre booked seats, then I bet loads of people would be able to move and everyone could sit next to each other. People would be friendly and try to make families, couples etc sit next to each other. The airline would lose out - but then would increase the cost of the seats.

But add the fact that some people will have paid, and won't want to move - and then you have to take a chance or play the game.

I'd pay it with children or vulnerable people. As an adult I wouldn't. I've swapped seats with people after boarding and been glad to cheat the airline out of the money.

£100 for a family of five sounds quite good. I have just paid £72 for just two of us. Loads of the seats on our flight (next week) have already been allocated so it looks as if a good proportion of passengers pay to get the seats they want.

£100 for 5 passengers isn't that big really is it? £10 per person, each way.
Unless it was a really cheap flight, then the extra £10 pp isn't that big a 'squeeze.'

Look at it this way:

• You pay £x to fly with designated seats as a family together
• However, if you don't mind and are happy to sit wherever on the plane - you can have a discount of £10pp

I actually wish it was this way round when booking - an all in price, with discounts for items you opt out of. They will never change it, however, because the lower price makes for better marketing.

Oh here we go, there's always one! The 'moral responsibility' is with the parents to look after their offspring, not me to move for them. Are you saying someone who had paid should happily lose their money because someone is too tight to pay?

(The last comment doesn't refer to you OP!)

Paying to prebook[sic] a specific seat does not exempt a person from the moral responsibility to move if a child needs to be seated with their parent. I find it astonishing that anyone could think this way.

I find it astonishing that anyone should expect their lack of planning/tightness trumps my right to sit in the seat I paid for, aside from the safety and timing issues with everyone rearranging the whole fucking plane to suit them after all the seats have been freely available to see and book for months.

Moral responsibility?? What have you been smoking? If they want my ore-booked seat then I want money fur both seats as we booked them both to sit together. I didn't have any responsibility for someone else's offspring.

If your happy not to sit together than don't pay it, but if you want to sit together then pay it.

If you don't pay, please don't expect somebody to move from a seat they paid for to accommodate you. I wouldn't give up my seat after I'd paid

Paying to prebook a specific seat does not exempt a person from the moral responsibility to move if a child needs to be seated with their parent.

What about the parents moral responsibility to pay the fairly small price to ensure their child has a seat next to a parent?

Paying to prebook a specific seat does not exempt a person from the moral responsibility to move if a child needs to be seated with their parent

Moral responsibility to move would arguably only apply if there was no way for parents to secure a seat beside their child.

Luckily, there is a way. It's called advance booking of your seats. And it usually costs money!

Ego - not sure if that does work though - hence one f the reasons why EasyJet and RyanAir have moved to rebooked seats, rather than a free for all once on board. Even if you don't pay, you now have a designated seat allocated to you at check in - up to 7 days ahead. So not are the free for all, and passengers sort it out, actually worked that well. It was always down to who got to the front of the queue first with the biggest elbows.

Pay it.

11 of us were seperated all through the plan from the carribean once. Fuck that again I was left with all the kids

BA charge you to reserve your seats in ADVANCE. You can log in 24 hours before your flight leaves and choose your seats then.

You will be fine, honestly.

I'd do it as soon as the check in opens tho, just for a peace of mind. I always do.

Maybe because your dc are younger you may be ok but we flew from Portugal home with BA and they seated all 4 of us separately. Our DC are 12 and 15 though so we didn't mind too much. I was surprised by how spread out we were though, all several rows apart.

If you really need to sit together then I would pay especially in school holidays.