Thomson Pre-paid seat allocation

teamgb

My vote is that a two year old should not have to pay extra to sit next to a parent on any form of transport.


Only small minded people would believe other wise.


I am of the older generation most of whom believe it is polite to give up your seat to less able without reward. My wife and I have moved on a number of occasions on all forms of transport to allow a family with young children to sit together.

Pollycat

teamgb wrote: »

My vote is that a two year old should not have to pay extra to sit next to a parent on any form of transport.


Only small minded people would believe other wise.


I am of the older generation most of whom believe it is polite to give up your seat to less able without reward. My wife and I have moved on a number of occasions on all forms of transport to allow a family with young children to sit together.

But it's not what you would vote for that matters

It's down to individual airline policy & there has been instances where a parent has been separated from their child.

So you would be happy to give up your paid-for seat to someone who thinks he shouldn't have to pay?

I don't pay for 'seats together' on short-haul but do on long-haul to get the particular seats we want.

If I hadn't chosen to pay for my seat & I was asked politely if I'd move to accommodate a parent & child, I would do so.

But if someone came at me will attitude (which I can imagine the OP doing from his responses), then it would take cabin crew insisting I move before they got my seat.

DTDfanBoy

Pollycat wrote: »

But it's not what you would vote for that matters

It's down to individual airline policy & there has been instances where a parent has been separated from their child.

So you would be happy to give up your paid-for seat to someone who thinks he shouldn't have to pay?

I don't pay for 'seats together' on short-haul but do on long-haul to get the particular seats we want.

If I hadn't chosen to pay for my seat & I was asked politely if I'd move to accommodate a parent & child, I would do so.

But if someone came at me will attitude (which I can imagine the OP doing from his responses), then it would take cabin crew insisting I move before they got my seat.

The bulk of the attitude on this thread is coming from yourself, what sort of vile person attacks someones parenting skills for merely raising a perfectly valid point

The airline knows the age of all parties on the booking, so why have an automated system that separates children from parents, it's inevitable that the seats will have to be changed before the flight departs, so all it achieves is annoying customers and adding extra workloads to their staff

ThumbRemote

Pollycat wrote: »

But if someone came at me will attitude (which I can imagine the OP doing from his responses), then it would take cabin crew insisting I move before they got my seat.

No-one has ever suggested anyone coming at you, or anyone else 'will (sic) attitude'. The OP perfectly reasonably contacted Thomson and sorted it out. Where do you get these ideas from?

theonlywayisup

ThumbRemote wrote: »

As far as I can see the issue did exist, and still does exist.



I can't see what you're finding so hard to understand in that.

The issue never existed because they will not seat a 2 year old away from the appropriate adult, assuming the OP is....

ThumbRemote

theonlywayisup wrote: »

The issue never existed because they will not seat a 2 year old away from the appropriate adult, assuming the OP is....

The seating wasnt the OPs issue. The fact they try to make you pay for this was.

Paully232000 wrote: »

The issue is that they try to charge you for a service that they know they will provide anyway for free.

takman

I've just been on a Thomson flight and I didn't pay for searing but it automatically assigned us seats all together in a row (party of 4). This also happened last time I flyed with them as well.
So the system appears to be setup to automatically seat people together. Maybe you left it a bit to late when checking in online?. I always check in as early as possible to increase the chances of getting seating together.

Pollycat

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

The bulk of the attitude on this thread is coming from yourself, what sort of vile person attacks someones parenting skills for merely raising a perfectly valid point

The sort of 'vile' person who doesn't like this sort of attitude from a parent:

Paully232000 wrote: »

Allocated two seats nowhere near each other, so good luck to the person who is sat next to my child when i am not next to her I thought.

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

The airline knows the age of all parties on the booking, so why have an automated system that separates children from parents, it's inevitable that the seats will have to be changed before the flight departs, so all it achieves is annoying customers and adding extra workloads to their staff

I have no idea.
If you really want an answer to your question, perhaps Thomson customer services may be able to advise.

ThumbRemote wrote: »

No-one has ever suggested anyone coming at you, or anyone else 'will (sic) attitude'. The OP perfectly reasonably contacted Thomson and sorted it out. Where do you get these ideas from?

My post #33 - which you have selectively quoted from - was in direct reply to post #32 which brought up the subject of giving up seats.

I merely stated how I would deal with it - depending on how the person wanting to sit in my allocated seat approached the situation.

I've never been in that position but have witnessed a happy outcome for a polite person and also a not-so-happy outcome for a shouting bully.

bod1467

Paully ... how very DARE you not include a smiley in your OP to make it clear that "Allocated two seats nowhere near each other, so good luck to the person who is sat next to my child when i am not next to her I thought" was merely a joke!

I mean ...look how you've managed to confuse poor Polly.

unforeseen

I always go for the emergency exit seats. Extra legroom and no danger of young kids in the same row or being asked to move because of them