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This_Year

I prefer to sit apart from my OH on planes. I only want to read or sleep and he wants to chat. Offence may be caused if I said shut the f up so I just try to avoid the situation totally.

When we flew to Cuba we were given extra legroom seats at check-in . When we were seated the 3rd passenger arrived, who had paid for extra legroom but he was by the door which took up a lot of the legroom as it held the slide mechanism so he effectively had no legroom at all unless he sat sideways on.

The flight wasn't full, there were many empty seats but he chose instead of speaking to the cabin crew who may have been able to move him, to keep turning around and moaning to the people behind him about how he had paid so much more for extra legroom but other people had plenty.

Quite what he thought that would gain him I don't know.

*Scarlett

Paying extra to sit together is a new cash earner for the airline and a complete rip off for the passenger.

There would be very few ocassions that an airline would be forced to split up a child from sitting with it's parent at check-in and if they did the issue would normally be sorted out on board - a lot of people don't mind moving a row or 2 if they are travelling singley or as a couple to accommodate this.

The check in desk should do their best to sit families together. I don't see why you should pay more for this - maybe either mum or dad has to sit a couple of rows behind but one parent should be with the children without having to prebook.:D

The only reason that the airlines are levying these charges is that people are paying them :mad:

If nobody paid the charge then seats would just be allocated as normal.

paddyrg

Flights are cheaper now than ever thanks to every little civility being unbundled from the price and available as a chargeable extra. There isn't a shred of glamour left in flying economy.

lincroft1710

"Yes sir, the flight is only £50, but you have to pay an additional £100 for the seat!"

mandragora_2

We fly as a couple, and if we pre-book seats we always get the window and middle seat allocated to us - which I try to avoid as it makes me feel claustrophobic. There would be no way I'd pay extra for that!

Earphones or earplugs, an eye mask and a little snooze before we land always sets me up nicely for a holiday. I don't know or care who I'm sitting next to - if we're lucky we get a seat each on each side of an aisle, or sometimes two seats together and an extra empty one. That's great, for the half hour or so I'm not in the land of nod!