Jet2 last minute booking, no seats with child, any experience?

[Qwerty93]

Just looking at booking a last minute holiday… with Jet2 to Ibiza on Saturday.

and got through to the select seats bit, and there are no seats available for me and my daughter to be next to each other… which is expected I guess, it’s last minute. But what happens now.

I phoned up jet 2 and they said at airport they will move people who have already checked in, and received free seats next to each other.

does anyone have any experience in this?

Why would you ignore the child? It’s the parent shouting sick bag nonsense- not the child?

the child won’t be sick, if it doesn’t need to be.

So she’s four. And I’m not expecting to sit all 3 of us together.

not even bothered if I’m next to her but separated by an aisle etc.

but like there was about 5 seats left and completely scattered, no in front of adjacent seats.

jet2 will sort it as said

But OP has tried. There are no seats left to sit with her child.

And it might have been the same situation with this dad.

The point is, no one wants to move.

Why wouldn’t you ignore the child? A random child sitting next to you does not confer any responsibility to you. I probably wouldn’t even notice if it wasn’t its parents next to me, it’s just nothing to do with me, is it?

Your message says you’d make it clear you would ignore the child. Ie. Deliberately.

probably a bit rude to ignore a child if they are talking to you 😂

If they’ve not paid for the seat tho- they aren’t entitled to it.

I would move from my paid seat if you paid me. Otherwise I wouldn't move and when I say pay me I don't mean just the cost of the reservation I mean the cost of the flight

I had this just last month booked last min holiday thurs, flying the following Monday. There wasn't any 2 seats together left available to book even if paying. I was allocated across the same row from my son (age 7) however when we did bag drop at airport our seats had been changed and we were sat next to each other, I didn't ask for this it was already done at their end. This was jet 2 package holiday, hope that helps :-)

Yes, thanks for reiterating it again. I would absolutely ignore a kid seated next to me. What do you find weird about this? I’m not on a flight to babysit someone random’s kid?

Headphones in, look the other way.

How is talking to someone babysitting 😂

Sorry, do you really think that someone should talk to your kid if they’re seated next to them?!! Do you not fly much?!

No. I think you seem to be missing the point.

im not even on about my kid.

you said you would ignore them. I’m not saying you speak to them first.

if a child has spoke to you, why would you ignore them?

Again, I refer to above. It’s rude.

Think what you want. As I said in my first post, my headphones would already be in. I wouldn’t have even noticed your kid. No, I would not chat. I’d never expect someone random to chat to my kid. My kids know that strangers don’t want to talk to them.

I normally have at least a couple of new books to read on planes so it should be obvious to anyone that I was absorbed & not up for chatting.

Haha! Wow. You live in a completely different city to me. Clearly.

a stranger has never talked to your kid on the bus, or in other situations?

I bet you’ve trained your kids to be as anti social as you… do they have their headphones straight away too 😂.

Probably for a reasonable adult. I’d agree. But kids necessarily wouldn’t see a book as a blocker to chat to the person next to them.

You’ll be fine. Seats will be gone at this stage because people have already checked in as you can do so from 28 days prior. Not all of them will have paid for particular seats, they’ve just been allocated any old seat when they checked in.

Before we had DS we never paid to select seats unless it was long-haul when we’d book extra legroom, because we didn’t care where we sat or even if we were sat together. We’d happily have volunteered to move (and/or happily accepted an involuntary move).

Actually one of my kids was travel sick, so much so that even I didn’t want to sit next to them, that was his Dads job, ha ha. Oddly enough, it was only flying that had this effect on him, he was fine on all other methods of transport, so his flying sickness was a bit of a shock at first. Anyone can get travel sickness at any time, but a little kid is less likely to be able to cope alone without liberally spraying everything and everyone around with vomit. My original post regarding telling the kid where the sick bag was and how to use it was tongue in cheek for this thread, and has been taken in the wrong spirit by those with a seeming lack of humour, but the advice to the child was genuinely needed in our case when we were sat separately.

We always pay to book our seats so there’s no way they would make me move to accommodate you 😂

Being honest, I probably would offer to move, not because I thought the parent deserved my help necessarily but because I wouldn’t want to sit next to a young kid and I know I’d struggle to ignore her / him.

We flew with Jet2 over Easter and they moved someone so that a family could sit together. I don’t think he was too happy about it and was very rude to the crew. The captain then made an announcement to say that they do need to do things like this from time to time to ensure children are sat with their family and for passengers to be respectful if they are asked to move. There were then a few more comments from the moved passenger (he had been moved to an aisle extra leg room seat.)

Anyway next thing we know the stairs are back and the passenger is removed (and his partner/wife decided to go too). We were delayed over an hour, but think this shows Jet2 do prioritise children sitting with their parents.

Flying back from Cyprus with Jet2, 10 year old was seated next to husband but our 12 year old was on his own. I asked at check in if there was any chance of sitting closer and they moved him to the seat right in front of me.

That was fine for us, and I appreciated the effort.

Although, I have been on Tui flights before when it has been chaos with very young children sat no where near their parents. The cabin crew had to find someone to swap.

A few years ago I got on a plane to find a family in our seats. The problem was... my children were younger than theirs. (They were 8-10, mine were 4&6).

They had to move, but they werent happy, and the plane was in danger of losing its slot so there wasnt time to move passengers.