Aibu re booking sets on the plane

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We (2 adults and 3 kids) are due to travel with jet2 for the first time for a family holiday in just over 3 weeks. When I tried to reserve seating this morning it appears as though all seat except exit seats are already booked, and these can only be booked by 14 years+. DC are 10, 8 and 3. As cheeky as it is, surely Jet2 aren't going to turn us away over this? I'm aware that this is expecting others to take seats they didn't chose and have paid for but it is the front row etc which is still available. Aibu? Do airlines provisionally allocate children seats and this doesn't appear?

How is it entitled to sit in the seats you have paid for?

"It is entitled to expect something that the terms and conditions clearly state isn't guaranteed. That is what YOU signed up to when you 'booked' the seat."

In the entitlement stakes, it is less entitled for someone who has paid for a seat to expect it, than for someone who has not paid for it. to expect it.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4599370/amp/Woman-epilepsy-refuses-plane-seat.html
Sorry for the fail link but I remember this lady posting on here, she had a terrible time because a mother had not bothered to book.
I also have epilepsy and book seats with my husband for the same reason as the lady above so I will not be moving for anyone child or no child.
And yes I have had cabin crew try to move me and tuts and nasty looks when i won’t

Yep a agree it’s a shit horrible system but so are a lot of things in life
It’s your responsibility as a parent to ensure you are sat with your kids (airlines changing booking aside in which case you gave the right to go apeshit). It no good getting on the plane and whingeing it’s not fair when you have been sat at the different end of the plane to your kids.

I know why @IronMansIronButt is so convinced they will always get the seat they want - she's the pilot!

I don't have a gripe with the airline - like I said, they have a duty to seat one of us with our child, so we will either get moved seats, upgraded or put on a different flight
Ok then as long as you are prepaired to disembark then you will have no problem. Hope the next flight and the flight after that has room for you

I don't understand why the only possibility was that woman to move. Couldn't anyone sitting in two seats have given up their seats to let the couple sit together?

If this is about the pregnant woman on the coach, I agree. There was at least one other person who could have been asked to move as the husband sat with someone else.

I don't have a gripe with the airline - like I said, they have a duty to seat one of us with our child, so we will either get moved seats, upgraded or put on a different flight

There is a minute chance you’d be upgraded. The reality is they’d go through the passenger list and look for FF’s to upgrade or they may just look for someone else to upgrade in order to send a message to people - don’t do this and think you’ll get an upgrade out of it just because.

Like with most things connected with holidays if the bottom line price included a seat choice then this would be the answer. Problem is you get Airlines Stripping out costs meaning you get those who prehaps in previous years couldn't have afforded to go on the flight if seat allocations were factored in, getting angsty about the extra seat allocation costs. A holiday is a luxury item, not a necessity or an entitlement. Nobody needs to take a plane for their holidays.

I don't do it to get upgraded, although it has happened in the past when my husband travelled a lot more so he was a 'gold' flyer and got perks. There's a minute possibility that might happen again, but unlikely! As I said earlier, its never been an issue for me because the staff at check in automatically issue us with seats together. And I only fly with BA as we live in a foreign country, long haul from the UK, so we don't have a budget airline option for coming back home to see family. I'm sure if I relied on EasyJet or Ryanair my experience of not paying for seat selection would be very different.