Finding best seat on flight

noelphobic

We are going to Rhodes with First Choice in August and can pre-book our seats. I have tried websites that tell you the best seats on planes but can't find my flight by flight number, date or airline (which I think is Thomas Cook). Does anyone know what the best seats would be?

Thanks in advance for any help.

photome

noelphobic wrote: »

We are going to Rhodes with First Choice in August and can pre-book our seats. I have tried websites that tell you the best seats on planes but can't find my flight by flight number, date or airline (which I think is Thomas Cook). Does anyone know what the best seats would be?

Thanks in advance for any help.

you need to know type of plane and check seatguru, not sure how you find plane type though.

As its only a short flight and i assume there is a charge for prebooking,,,why bother

noelphobic

photome wrote: »

As its only a short flight and i assume there is a charge for prebooking,,,why bother

too late! There are only 2 of us and I have just found out that we can't leave a single window seat free, so no window seat for us unless we sit separately anyway!

tonybee1

Your flight will be with Thomson Airways and the aircraft will be an Airbus 320 or 321. Either way seating will be 3 x 3. Unless you prebook extra legroom in my opinion if you want a window seat then check in early. Take your own food and soft drinks........... Thompson have now lowered the standards from what they were. If you are flying from Stanstead you can buy small plastic bottles of wine from "duty free" (note you are not allowed to consume your own alcohol on board!) BUT......... a lot of people do............quite happily.
:beer:

SteveJW

Travel two or three times a year, wouldn't know what was a best seat if pre-booking. Cannot understand the comment cannot leave a window seat free, surely you want one window seat and the adjacent seat, unless neither of you wants / likes a window seat.

I can never understand what is a good flight time or a bad one either, maybe I'm missing something. Best return flight time for me is one that lets me get to work the day I arrive home, outbound flight is one that lets me go to work before flying out

Drinks, I am tight always take two or three of those small plastic bottles of spirits that they sell on the plane filled with my favourite tipple, put them in a clear plastic bag and show on departure, never any problem. Ok not allowed to drink your own on a plane, just a risk I will take

Hope you enjoy your holiday

noelphobic

SteveJW wrote: »

Cannot understand the comment cannot leave a window seat free, surely you want one window seat and the adjacent seat, unless neither of you wants / likes a window seat.

I can never understand what is a good flight time or a bad one either, maybe I'm missing something. Best return flight time for me is one that lets me get to work the day I arrive home, outbound flight is one that lets me go to work before flying out

Drinks, I am tight always take two or three of those small plastic bottles of spirits that they sell on the plane filled with my favourite tipple, put them in a clear plastic bag and show on departure, never any problem. Ok not allowed to drink your own on a plane, just a risk I will take

Hope you enjoy your holiday

I would have preferred to have the aisle seat and the one next to it but wasn't able to book them because it meant leaving a single window seat free and computer said no! I wasn't asking about the actual flight times as that was already booked.

I don't usually drink much when flyin g - defo not on return trip as will probably be driving home from airport but thanks for the tip :beer::beer:

Gloomendoom

Booking an aisle and a centre seat was common tactic used to increase the chances of the window seat being left unfilled because, generally, people don't like to be separated from their companions. Another common one was to book the aisle and the window seat on a row of three. Airlines have obviously cottoned on to this and are taking steps to make it difficult. On the trip I last booked, the small print said that the airline reserved the right to change seat reservations to close up deliberate gaps.

Mr_Wang

Who cares, they're all going to the same place!

Archergirl

I certainly wouldn't pay to pre book a seat on such a short flight, check in early and take your chance.

vixarooni

There is a reason why you're not allowed to drink on a plane, and its more for medical purposes. If you fall unwell, adding alcohol to the mix makes it harder for the people who could be potentially keeping you alive as the plane diverts.

noelphobic

vixarooni wrote: »

There is a reason why you're not allowed to drink on a plane, and its more for medical purposes. If you fall unwell, adding alcohol to the mix makes it harder for the people who could be potentially keeping you alive as the plane diverts.

You are allowed to drink on a plane and that isn't what the thread is about so not sure what your point is! I

It goes without saying that it isn't a good idea to drink to excess on a flight, for many reasons!