Flying with Jet2 and children. Seat allocation

mcfisco

There's only two of us now but we're always allocated seats together or across the aisle.
It wouldn't bother me to be split up though as I just put a movie on and lose myself in that.

margaeyre

Wow, 3 pages' worth of replies!
Some of you have been very helpful, thanks.
To those of you happy to pay extra for choosing your seats, well, feel free.
If you are doing your check-in as soon as it opens, and most of the seats on the plane are available, I find it absurd that the airline purposefully splits groups. If I had to seat far away from my husband for 3 hours, it's not a problem. After so many years together 3 hours won't make a difference .
But if you are travelling with young children (my eldest is 4, as I stated in my first post), it does not make sense to put them away from parents, unless you know that said parents will pay the extra money to keep their children near us.
Again, as I wrote in my first post, I don't want the 4 of us to sit near and cosy, but an adult per child would make sense.
If you paid for your seat, and then you are stuck with my 4 year old next to you :eek:, well, too bad!
One of these years they will charge for breathing inside the craft, and we will have to pay for air or bring our own masks.
This all comes down to advertising "low prices" then trying to bring up the profits.
And a family of 4, flying during school term (eldest is NOT yet at school, by the way) is costing us in excess of £600 just to go and visit the family for a couple of weeks. There is no way I'm going for a more expensive airline, and although there are allegedly cheaper airlines, I avoid those like the plague.
So, pay the revolutionary tax if you like. They will charge us for hand-luggage one of these years and if we pay like sheep, they will be more than happy to dream up more extra charges.

Bob_the_Saver

margaeyre wrote: »

although there are allegedly cheaper airlines, I avoid those like the plague.

If you mean Ryanair at least you'd sit together for free unless you couldn't be bothered to queue.

POPPYOSCAR

Some of the posters on here who think the Op should pay extra to have a child sit with a parent if they want them next to them, would you be happy sitting next to a 2 year old with no parent to control them?

I think not!

Bob_the_Saver

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Some of the posters on here who think the Op should pay extra to have a child sit with a parent if they want them next to them, would you be happy sitting next to a 2 year old with no parent to control them?

I think not!

I'd give them one of these to show to their parents, that usually shifts them.

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/media/1480097/2049NE04A-12-07-09.jpg

POPPYOSCAR

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

I'd give them one of these to show to their parents, that usually shifts them.

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/media/1480097/2049NE04A-12-07-09.jpg

I do not think much of your sense of humour.

zagfles

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

I'd give them one of these to show to their parents, that usually shifts them.

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/media/1480097/2049NE04A-12-07-09.jpg

That's more likely to get you shifted, in handcuffs

Bob_the_Saver

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

I do not think much of your sense of humour.

Many don't, I met JS many times and he never molested me,
so he did have some taste.

budgetflyer

Id have no problem moving for a parent to sit with a child. Its different, a whole family needing to sit together though.

However, the original problem should be resolved with a phone call. Probably just a glich in an automated system.

BTW £600 is cheap for a family of 4 to fly anywhere. It would have cost more than that 30 years ago

opinions4u

peachyprice wrote: »

Did you even read the OP?

Yes, I did.

But as the OP hasn't even bothered to pick up the phone to try and resolve this my response was always going to be pretty pointless wasn't it?

The seat allocation software is obviously a bit useless. Get a person to look at it and I suspect all will be resolved within seconds.

Probably in less time than it took to post here in the first place.