Thomson Pre-paid seat allocation

theonlywayisup

ThumbRemote wrote: »

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

In life, lots of people may try to make you pay for things you don't need. It generally only needs an ounce of common sense to work it out, something I don't see in the OP. There really isn't an issue here. After all, the OP hasn't paid and probably wasn't ever going to.

Pollycat

bod1467 wrote: »

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.

I'm not sure that I am confused.

I've not read anything in the OP's posts on this thread that convinces me that it was a joke, despite thumbremote's attempt to make it out to be 'mildly humourous'.

bod1467

Most sane people would presume that the OP was being humorous with that comment ... to have actually meant it would be madness - I'm minded to presume that the OP is not insane.

Lip_Stick

Some people do like to make a mountain out of a molehill, and I'm not talking about the OP, who was obviously being facetious.

Pollycat

bod1467 wrote: »

Most sane people would presume that the OP was being humorous with that comment ... to have actually meant it would be madness - I'm minded to presume that the OP is not insane.

Lip_Stick wrote: »

Some people do like to make a mountain out of a molehill, and I'm not talking about the OP, who was obviously being facetious.

The OP appeared pretty determined not to pay for seats.

Who knows what he would have done if Thomson hadn't sorted seats together out?

Maybe he'd have sucked it up and paid.
Maybe he'd have stuck to his principles and hoped to get someone to change seats once he'd boarded.

I have read on TA of some people who refused to pay for seats together and then ranted that they were not sat next to their child.
Neither you nor I know if the OP is one of those people.
That is why I did not automatically assume that the OP was being humourous or facetious.

What CAA say about it:

The seating of children close by their parents or guardians should be the aim of airline seat allocation procedures for family groups and large parties of children.
Young children and infants who are accompanied by adults, should ideally be seated in the same seat row as the adult. Children and accompanying adults should not be separated by more than one aisle. Where this is not possible, children should be separated by no more than one seat row from accompanying adults. This is because the speed of an emergency evacuation may be affected by adults trying to reach their children.
Whenever a number of infants and children are travelling together the airline should make every effort to ensure that they can be readily supervised by the responsible accompanying adults.

https://www.caa.co.uk/Passengers/On-board/Seating-allocation/

bod1467

pulliptears

There are threads 1000 posts long at this time of year from parents on a popular parenting forum complaining about this. Many will refuse to pay claiming the airlines will not seat them away from their child. There then follows several hundred examples where this exact thing has happened.

Personally, if I'd paid for my seat I wouldn't be moving to accommodate someone who hadn't.

Becles

I've seen it happen before on flights.

I always pay the pre-booking charge as I don't want to be split up and I like to sit near to the toilets. If someone got on who'd not paid the charge and expected people who had to move elsewhere, I wouldn't volunteer to move.

hollydays

Becles wrote: »

I've seen it happen before on flights.

I always pay the pre-booking charge as I don't want to be split up and I like to sit near to the toilets. If someone got on who'd not paid the charge and expected people who had to move elsewhere, I wouldn't volunteer to move.

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It's an infant . While I agree it's not your responsibility, it is clearly an ineffective website that allows you to agree not to automatically sitnnext to your child?

Lip_Stick

I'm sure when I paid for allocated seating last year, in the small print it was stated that they could still move you and that they didn't actually guarantee that you got the seat that you had picked.