Flying with Jet2 and children. Seat allocation

totallybored

zagfles wrote: »

You don't pay to book your seats. You pay to "select your preferred seats". There is no guarantee you'll get them, see the T&Cs and the tripadvisor links I posted above.

Well if I'd paid to select my preferred seats that had no guarantee that I'd get them, got on the plane where I'd found it was possible to sit in these seats then I'd be happy. And if another passenger came along and asked me to move so they could sit with their kids then I'd happily do this and ask them for the money

zagfles

totallybored wrote: »

Well if I'd paid to select my preferred seats that had no guarantee that I'd get them, got on the plane where I'd found it was possible to sit in these seats then I'd be happy. And if another passenger came along and asked me to move so they could sit with their kids then I'd happily do this and ask them for the money

You can ask for whatever you want...doesn't mean you'll get. If there's a 2 year old sat alone, the staff will move people around, and they won't charge the 2 year old for doing so

totallybored

zagfles wrote: »

You can ask for whatever you want...doesn't mean you'll get. If there's a 2 year old sat alone, the staff will move people around, and they won't charge the 2 year old for doing so

I might get it! Always worth trying. I do think paying for seats on European flights is a con though. They're practically all the same and its only a few hours. The easy jet way of letting the speedy boarders and families with kids on first seems to work fine on the flights I've been on.

zagfles

totallybored wrote: »

I might get it! Always worth trying. I do think paying for seats on European flights is a con though. They're practically all the same and its only a few hours. The easy jet way of letting the speedy boarders and families with kids on first seems to work fine on the flights I've been on.

They have pre-allocated seats now (or they did on the last 2 flights I went on with them anyway).

totallybored

zagfles wrote: »

They have pre-allocated seats now (or they did on the last 2 flights I went on with them anyway).

Gah, I never realised they'd introduced this since last year. According to the faqs you can also 'buy a seat' on board.

Saint_Chris

It's the UK everything is a con, or a blag to get more cash out of you.

but you have to decide in life what u want to pay for and what u don't.

opinions4u

Saint_Chris wrote: »

It's the UK everything is a con, or a blag to get more cash out of you.

but you have to decide in life what u want to pay for and what u don't.

You clearly didn't read the thread.

margaeyre

:shocked: I'm surprised at people's reactions, to be honest.
I've been flying for years, before the online check-in, and the airlines usually had two attitudes:
First come first serve, like Easyjet. (That's a free for all, survival of the fittest, etc )
or
You were given a seat at the check-in desk.

I admit that when companies started doing the online check-in I had no idea what was going on, as my eldest was just a baby and we had to go to the desk in person.

But seriously: if airlines really have to dream up ways to make us pay more, why don't they simply put up prices? At least it's straightforward.
If they cannot survive charging us 50 quid per person, per flight, then just charge 65 and forget about charging extra for the blooming seats!!!

And funny because even if people pay for their preferred seats there is no guarantee that you will have the seat.
but please, go ahead: pay for the seats, the overpriced coffee and snacks, meals, booze in tiny bottles, scratch cards, "shop"...
I'm one of those that will take the tupper with fruit, sandwiches and bettabuy biscuits :cool:.


On a completely different note: years ago I was working at a local college. The tutor left them mid-course so I was asked to step in. The students had paid a fee to join the course, but near the end the course leader asked the students to pay to take the examination and achieve a certificate. The students all complained, and the course leader came to my class to explain that without the examination, the college would not be able to receive the funding from the government.
One of my students very rightly told her that in that case, the college should have charged the exam fee upfront, not nearing the end of the course!
2 weeks before the examinations were due, all my students stopped coming. They had completed the syllabus, and they had no need for a certificate (they were mature students).
Who lost? The college.

Gloomendoom

Hmmm... I never used to pay for seats, then airlines started charging extra for the seats with extra legroom. As I'm tall I'd previously usually been allocated one of these seats at check in. Now I have no choice but to pay. I can't even sit with my feet on the floor in a standard short/medium haul seat and it's tight long haul. If some short ârse asked me to give up my seat to sit in a standard seat because they are too tight to pay a few quid extra, they can be sure of a very cool reception.
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budgetflyer

And the students.
They had no proof of competence for what ever it is they learned at the course.
Unless. As I suspect it was one of them "pass the time" courses that oldies do to stop thejr brains rotting