Thomson Pre-paid seat allocation

ElefantEd

I reckon I could get the cost of any flight repaid, by the simple expedient of deliberately booking myself a seat nowhere near my kids. Then I would offer whoever ended up sitting next to them a deal to swap seats. Even if they didn't accept immediately, no-one would last a whole flight without viewing a few hundred pounds as a bargain to escape the little darlings!

ARandomMiser

Lip_Stick wrote: »

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.

They did that to me once and told me I would have to contact the airline to get back the money I had paid for booking the seat. The airline then tried deducting a £25 administration fee ... it took me many phone calls and a lot of time to get my money back.

Since then I have been asked to move on a couple of occasions and have point blank refused unless the stewardess or passenger reimburses me immediately ... of course they never do, so I don't move.

esuhl

ElefantEd wrote: »

I reckon I could get the cost of any flight repaid, by the simple expedient of deliberately booking myself a seat nowhere near my kids. Then I would offer whoever ended up sitting next to them a deal to swap seats. Even if they didn't accept immediately, no-one would last a whole flight without viewing a few hundred pounds as a bargain to escape the little darlings!

That sounds like the fairest system.

If it's legitimate for airlines/agencies to charge passengers a premium to sit next to their toddler, then it seems equally fair to expect other passengers to pay a premium not to sit next to your toddler.

You get a free (or cheap) flight, other passengers get to swap seats to reduce their chance of being disturbed, and no one has wasted money by paying the travel agent for something that can be sorted out on-board. Everyone's a winner!

mad_dr

ElefantEd wrote: »

I reckon I could get the cost of any flight repaid, by the simple expedient of deliberately booking myself a seat nowhere near my kids. Then I would offer whoever ended up sitting next to them a deal to swap seats. Even if they didn't accept immediately, no-one would last a whole flight without viewing a few hundred pounds as a bargain to escape the little darlings!

Don't let Pollycat hear you say that...

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

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.

I can imagine a situation where you wantonly strike down an old woman on the street.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself for this imaginary behaviour.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

The reactions in this thread are absurd.

At the very least, the OP points out to people that Thomson have a policy whereby they " will allocate you a seat together as we do not allow children under 12 to be sat away from their adult/carer."

However, they are very reluctant to tell people this is their policy, as they want to get parents of young children to PAY for this allocation, if they can.

This is worth knowing if you are going on a Thomson flight with young children.

Pollycat

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

I can imagine a situation where you wantonly strike down an old woman on the street.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

I would be ashamed of myself if I ever 'wantonly struck down an old woman on the street'. :rotfl:
How do you know that I'm not an old woman myself?

And your comment is relevant to this thread because.......?

Malthusian

pulliptears wrote: »

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

I would because when this happened to me the stewards gave me a free demi bottle of champagne by way of apology, which I shared with my new seat neighbours.

This was however a Canadian airline.

esuhl

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

I can imagine a situation where you wantonly strike down an old woman on the street.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself for this imaginary behaviour.

Ashamed for imaginary behaviour?!

How does the idea of not giving up your reserved seat result in you imagining the striking-down of an old woman?! :rotfl:

Maybe we should legislate so that a refusal to give up a reserved seat is considered GBH. Then we could lock up these terrible people who want to sit in their reserved seats long before they wantonly strike down old women in the street!

Rainbowgirl84

I like children. I would much prefer to be sat next to a child than some drunk 18-30 holidaymaker/stag do and their numerous mates. I'd probably get a better conversation from the child too!