Airlines forced to seat children with parents

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Thanks Burnham, now it’ll be more expensive for child free people like me to pick a seat. I can’t believe that things like this even need to be legislated for.

Where are you “seeing” this? Are you watching parliament daily or are you seeing this in the media, who choose what to report

But the low cost airlines flights are cheaper. You choose the ‘extras’ you pay for.

I believe they have to seat under 12's next to a parent currently? That's what happens with RyanAir. I don't (refuse to) pay and each time the under 12's get placed next to me and teenager elsewhere on the plane

Why would it be more expensive? Your point doesn't make sense.
Surely airlines just allocate the parents and children to seats after those who have paid to choose have made their selections.

Why is it so common for people to look at policy announcements that aren't applicable to them, and start assuming that because they don't benefit they must be suffering a downside?

It doesn’t have to be next to, it can include immediately in front or immediately behind.

What about people like me who don't care where they sit? When just DH and I fly together we don't book and pay for seats, we are absolutely fine not to sit next to each other on a flight for a few hours so why should I pay to book a seat or have it increase the price of a standard seat by being included when I don't want it? We live close to a small airport and are happy to do weekends with hand luggage only, a short flight doesn't matter where we sit

AS IT SHOULD BE!!!

Oh what a shame. 😂

Thank you!!!

To be fair I have a child but I don't only travel with them, I travel alone, with DH,with friends etc with no children present

Small stuff like public transport that gets people to work every day?

This is bloody important. Even my local Conservative MP has done a lot with the local train company to make sure the services are better as she recognises it's important to voters.

This! Back when flying made sense!

Well wouldn't it be worse if you were stuck next to some random child for the flight because they weren't seated with a parent? Ridiculous post.

The business models have changed but sll commercial businesses need to make a profit.
Booking a flight isn’t a public service.
If you don’t like the cheap airlines’ business models then pay more for BA or whatever.

I’ve always had the opposite with Ryanair. When choosing seats it always forced me to pick one next to my DCs. An error would come up saying I have to sit directly next to (as the main booking person) as opposed to DH.

Too bloody right!

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Good - ridiculous to have to pay to sit next to your young children (and discriminatory too).

Last time I flew Ryanair with DH and DS (17 at the time I think) we were automatically allocated seats in row 1 (me!) row 15 and row 30. I don’t care at all… but clearly they are trying hard to be awkward to put more pressure on people to book seats.

It's not just low cost airlines that add on all the extras at a cost now though.

Everything about flights is data-driven, and modelled to allow airlines to be as competitive as they can be on price while still turning a profit. This includes the base-price of seats, plus the price-point of up-selling seat-selection options. They know that flights between certain destinations at certain times of year will have more families sat on them, If you remove the opportunity to charge extra for families to sit together they’ll make-up the lost revenue by increasing the base-price of all seats.

This.
I use Ryanair regularly, I never pay more than the base fare shown.
France to UK, one way, generally out of school holidays costs me about £26.
Even in summer holidays there's usually a flight for £80.
It's relatively much cheaper than airfare 30 years ago.
Just after covid I was flying for £5.

Just book an airline that doesn’t deliberately split people up. I flown with TUI, easyJet and BA this year and for all 3 was seated next to my dh without paying extra.

I never pay for seats and Easyjet always sit me and DS together. Window and middle seat every single time. I don't think that much will change for other people. Not sure why you think that your price will increase.

We never pay for seats.
Normally the lead on the booking is the middle seat, kids on either side.
The other parent across the asile occasionally infront / behind