To not book seats for my kids To Florida

[tinklykitty]

Booking our Flights to Disney

Will be an extra 450 pounds to reserve seats together for me DH and our 3dc (one of which is classed as a young adult 12 yrs)

DH thinks booking seats together is unnecessary but DS12 would be devastated if he was placed away from us on the flight as would I.

They do allocate a seat for parents with children but as Ds is being classed as a young adult I'm concerned that he will be moved away from us

I have always paid for seats especially on long haul flights. It sounds important to your DS so just book you and him together.

Don't expect people who have paid to move.

@choli ds12 has never flown before and is a bit anxious about going in the first place but yeah maybe in a couple of years he would be ok

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Just checkin online, it open 24 hours before your flight departs, so be prompt and get in and get the seats together for free

Don't do this, it absolutely does not guarantee seats will be available. I'm a frequent flier, v often there are only a few seats left together on some popular flights 24hrs prior to take off.

Would never expect anyone to move for me and my family. Was trying to explain to DH that as the plane will be packed with families there's no one who would move for us and too right for even those without kids.

I used to work as a cabin crew so I know first hand the drama caused when families wanted to sit together. The airline I worked for didn't book seats though

I'd pay £400 to not sit with my family.

I knew one family where the parents would fly business and stick the kids in economy as unaccompanied minors. Another family where the parents would catch the first flight then send the kids on the following flight as unaccompanied minors.

Also on the Disney flights a lot of families will prebook so you might find your seats scattered about.

Having read several accounts over the years of people being assaulted by someone sat next to them on the plane, no amount of money would stop me being seated next to my child. If I couldn't afford it, I'd rather not go. Not too worried about me and DH as adults but I just wouldn't risk it with DC

Most 12 yr old I know would be delighted rather than devastated to be seated apart from their parents

Actually no, my 12 year old threw up into a sick bag with his meal right in front of him meaning had I have been sat elsewhere I couldn't have even got up to get to him (food, trolley in aisle.) He was glad both Dh and I were there.

We pay for seats but fly Aer Lingus to Florida as we pre-clear customs and immigration in Dublin. Literally land, grab bags and go.

BA are rather good at seating people together in families. If you only book 1 adult with DS12 then the rest of your family could be anywhere, I suppose it depends how the other parent feels about dealing with 2 children single handed.

Have you flown long haul before?

Always pre-book as I want to choose our seats. Just travelling with my DH this year but definitely want to sit together - specially long haul. Apologies but wouldn't move to accommodate a family who hadn't pre-paid, unless they upgrade us of course.

Book seats for 1 parent and the 12 year old. Other parent and younger kids will be sat together. I HATE that a supposedly decent airline like BA puts parents in this position.

Got interrupted half way through posting. I am on a UK Disney site and most people book so they have peace of mind that they are all together but you are right it is a ridiculous amount of money.

We picked seats at check in for Disney this year with BA, it's annoying they charge so much to book seats in advance. It was fine, but I also knew we'd be fine if we got split up.

It's a total rip off really

Of course BA Should assume that every booking wants to sit together... why not automatically put seats together on a first come first serve basis? For money obviously

I agree with @tinklykitty its a huge money making scheme.
I would probably pay on flights to Orlando though because it will be full of families who have

Urgh it's outrageous that airlines can charge so much! We are flying with DD to Italy in June and I was too tight to even spend £30 prebooking seats. I kept an eye on the easyJet website to check there were still lots of seats unbooked (more than half) and checked in today as soon as check in opened (30 days before.) We are now allocated 3 seats in a row. It was a risk but if I'd seen that most seats were already taken when I checked a few weeks ago, I would have prebooked then. Is that strategy possible with long haul?

@wineymummy yeah I think so, could see hardly any seats booked yet. think we might be the first but we aren't going til March.

Oh thank heavens. I was beginning to get withdrawal symptoms because it's getting on for two weeks since we had an "AIBU not to book long haul plane seats for my six year old but still breastfeeding triplets with attachment issues ."

Sits back, opens popcorn.

Lol @viques enjoy your popcorn.
I haven't seen any other threads like it other than the jet2 one recently ;) my bad!

I'm going to start another thread about the fact that I've booked this thing during school term time) on the advice of mumsnet ha and now I'm worried theyll make an example of me and put me in prison... mind you I could do with the break tbh ;)

I've never paid to have seats together and we have never been sat apart. Mine are old enough now that if it did happen they would be ok anyway. It's just a way of making more money.

I've booked this thing during school term time) on the advice of mumsnet Do you always follow strangers advice on the internet when they tell you to break the law?

I believe it's a legal requirement that children under 12 must sit next to a parent. I wouldn't pay to book seats for something which the airline has a legal responsibility to provide

A 12-year-old could be allocated a seat separately, so I probably would pay for the 12-year-old and one adult to sit together

Next to a parent can mean in front of, behind or across the aisle.

MN needs to build in a macro of all previous responses to this question, so that each time there's a new OP about this all of the previous replies just appear whenever the trigger words "book plane seats" appears.

What’s the plan for when your ds is devastated? Do you think it’ll be up to other passengers to sort it out for you?

We phoned Virgin 48 hours before and they allocated us seats together. We didn’t pay.