Booking flight seats

[Nannianni]

More and more I’m hearing of passengers bei g asked to move seats , even if paid for seat . My friend booked 3 seats together , asked to move for famiky of 7 , so young children could sit together. Flight attendant said flight could not leave unless children with parents!
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Others this seems to be happening more and more . Harassed/guilt trip by other passengers and cabin crew.😡😡😡😡

Glad no result. I think more people say no tte better.
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passengers want to sit together book a seat and pay .

The cabin crew pretty much said that there was nothing they could do about it as they were already sitting there and weren’t going to move and that our friends would have to have the spare spread out seats that were available. So they were then in the position of asking people to move so that one of them could sit with the 4 year old. They were fuming about it. It’s so unfair when you’ve not got what you’ve paid for, especially when you then have to go around begging other families/couples to move seats and look like you’re the ones that are trying it on.

The airlines need to sort this out and stop letting people with kids not book seats together. Whether that’s free or not is another convo.

I feel like I would just sit myself down on their knee 🤣 and end up getting removed probably. I can't believe the audacity of some people

Don’t get me going on changes of aircraft and seat bookings!

Bloody EasyJet keep doing this to us, and when I try to put us back in the position we have paid to be in (at the back, near the door and toilet) (disability), I get made to pay all over again!

I’ve just booked flights with Virgin and Delta - both I could see what seats were available in the search results before I even added them to my basket.

The reason I booked the flights with different airlines was because the only seats available with Virgin on the return date were not together.

So it seems that if you’re travelling with children, there’s no need to pay for a pre-booked seat, you can just rock up and displace people who’ve booked/paid in good faith?!

I think that’s correct. Or what I was told.

i (wrongly) assumed they would allow say half the seats to prebook and the rest be allocated on day.

im not sure what would have happened if someone with children checked in late, so all seats had been issued boarding passes.

This is a problem created by the airlines wanting to charge for more and more things which used to be included in the ticket price.

when booking holiday flights specifically, so the likes of jet2 holidays, Tui, I’d agree totally that families should be allocated seats together at booking , they cost enough without having to pay out more for larger groups to be able to sit with their kids

Yep. They want to be able to have headline ticket prices as low as possible.

But parents being able to sit near children is a necessity for the safety of everyone on the plane, since if there's an emergency the parents are going to get in the way trying to get to their kids. Meaning it's not something that any passenger should be able to opt out of, regardless of whether they happen to be travelling with DC or not. It needs to be included in the ticket price for all passengers.

True......with the aim of reducing the basic ticket price..

As if.

So you think the money you put in for seat choice all goes into a pot labelled "profit" at Ryanair, Easyjet or whoever?

Don't know if it's still the same but we did virgin to florida. They wanted £50 per person per leg of the journey to sit together. We were a family of 5. 2 adults, 2 kids aged 15 and 17 and a 6 year old. Would happily have paid to be guaranteed to sit next to the 6 year old. Not paying £500 to sit together as a family. And had to pay for everyone or no one.
Turned out fine in the end. But the airline creates the problem.

@NewsdeskJC

But the airline creates the problem.

The airlines created a rod for their own backs a long time ago with this and other ancillary charges...

Operating airliners is very very expensive, there's much much more to it than just putting fuel in the jet, but history has shown customers like the look of low fares (especially on the internet).

it’s choice.

When I visit family it’s me, a carry-on bag and I don’t care where I sit and I’ll take any flight time. Happy with a £24.99 fare.

When I’m on a family holiday I’d rather fly at a convenient time, sit next to dh/dcs, take more luggage and therefore accept that the tickets will cost more.

I’m sorry - but there are some greedy so-and-sos on here thinking that a rock bottom ticket should come with all the bells and whistles of a premium price product - and they think the airlines are greedy! Air travel is not a charitable endeavour!

But there is no problem for the airline, just the passengers who don’t want to cough up the extra to all sit together or (as in your case) you could have paid extra and separately to the other three people in your group and you or your partner could have sat with your 6 year old.

I am sure people would have been judging my son and family recently who boarded a flight and weren't seated together. However they had paid for a direct flight and had paid for seats together and bulkhead seats for crib etc. However flight was cancelled and the airline plonked them onto an indirect flight and into available seats! They luckily ended up due to the kindness of others sitting 2 and 2.

1. Always Book seats when book flight / holiday . If internet dies, call.
2. Do together (if you want to stay with him - or rather if he wants to stay with you)

https://www.expedia.com/helpcenter/?product=Flight&productId=flight&articleId=12369