Pre booked flight seats for 2 & 3 y/o's?

[doghelp123]

Not really AIBU, posting for traffic. Apologies for long post.

We are due to go on holiday in 7 weeks time and we have not paid for pre booked seats, the reason i have not paid is because our DCs are 2 & 3 y/o and the travel agent has advised its a £25 fee per seat, so looking at £100 all in for me, DH and DC's to be together - we have saved a long time to get this holiday and if I'm being honest it seems like a very large amount to be shelling out for seats. Me and DH are not fussed about being seated together obviously, but we would need the DCs to be next to either one of us so we did ask the travel agent if me and DH booked our two seats for the £50 would kids be guaranteed to be next to us but we were told me would need to pay the £25 for each of them as well, I then called jet 2 and they have advised that they would not split young children up from parents even if we had not paid for the seats but I have now been seeing things online stating that the DCs wouldn't necessarily be in the same row as either of us, but they could be put in the row in front or behind.

Can anyone who has flew before with Jet2 advise us? I would really rather not be paying the £100 for seats as IMO it is to much and it seems silly to be paying the money for kids that age if the airlines aren't actually allowed to split us?

So any frequent jet2 flyers, it would be much appreciated if anyone in similar circumstances could advise

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Romax

Those guidelines have been posted on here already.

They clearly state that the aim is that children should be seated, where possible, in the same row as a parent or no more than one row away - so in front, behind or across the aisle.

That is as much as you can hope to get if they aren't next to you. But they are only guidelines and not a concrete guarantee.

If parents are happy with that then they don't need to pre book do they? But if they want to absolutely guarantee being sat next to their child then it seems that you do need to pay.

OhDearGodLookAtThisMess the person on the phone said that those were the only seats available and this could not promise anything else. If the crew wanted to move someone for us they could but apparently that was up to the crew. We chose not to fly on that flight under those conditions, but you are welcome to.

@Livvylovesgin

The family you saw that DID air behind their two year old

Why the heck didn’t one of the family members swap with the lone two year old?!

sit

It’s clear there are general guidelines that provide a minimum, but each individual airline has its own internal policy. They want people to purchase seats so I doubt many airlines will be totally upfront about what their policy really is. All of the accounts here from employees and witnesses can be equally true, just with different airlines and/or the airline operating a policy that has changed over the years. It’s another one of those things that comes down to how risk adverse you are. I would say the chances of ending up sitting separately from a very young child are pretty minimal to non existent, but it depends whether you are comfortable having someone move for you.

Romax, apologies, I did explain earlier in the thread. The 2 year olds DM sat behind her, DF was eel wher on the planes.

*elsewhere

We have done our online check in and Jet 2 / travel agent stuck to what they said. We have all been seated together, we are travelling with another family at the same time and all 9 of us are seated together. Thank-you for everyones advise and help. Glad i saved myself the £100

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