Cheap airline seating

bmf

Just looked at pre booking seats on flight to Tobago with BA and they want a ridiculous £37+ per seat going out and £41+ each coming back! It is scandalous. I will just have to do it when check in opens 24 hours before flight and hope for the best!
It never used to be like this - I used to book seats for free 180 days before the flight when online booking first started. Just another way to rip people off - charging the customer to do the airline's work!

Pollycat

bmf wrote: »

Just looked at pre booking seats on flight to Tobago with BA and they want a ridiculous £37+ per seat going out and £41+ each coming back! It is scandalous. I will just have to do it when check in opens 24 hours before flight and hope for the best!
It never used to be like this - I used to book seats for free 180 days before the flight when online booking first started. Just another way to rip people off - charging the customer to do the airline's work!

Well, if that's the cost and you're not willing to pay that amount, so be it.
I guess you'll just have to hope for the best.
It's not a'rip-off'.
It's an optional charge in addition to your flight ticket.
Pay or don't pay.
Your choice.

little_acorn_2

Why no mention of Air Canada's policy?

Westin

Feel free to add it after you have done some research. It shouldn’t take you too long as I am sure the information is on the Air Canada website.

peachyprice

bmf wrote: »

Just looked at pre booking seats on flight to Tobago with BA and they want a ridiculous £37+ per seat going out and £41+ each coming back! It is scandalous. I will just have to do it when check in opens 24 hours before flight and hope for the best!
It never used to be like this - I used to book seats for free 180 days before the flight when online booking first started. Just another way to rip people off - charging the customer to do the airline's work!

You think that's scandalous? They wanted £75pp each way in business class to pre-book seats. Like the £5k I was willing to pay for the flights wasn't enough.

Needless to say they didn't get my business.

Nick_C

peachyprice wrote: »

You think that's scandalous? They wanted £75pp each way in business class to pre-book seats. Like the £5k I was willing to pay for the flights wasn't enough.

Needless to say they didn't get my business.

I can beat that. They wanted £99 pp each way on an A380 to LAX last year. We didn't bite. When we checked in on line at T-24, we found we had been pre allocated a middle pair on the main deck. We changed to the second cabin on the upper deck which was less than half full.

AFAIK, BA is the only airline to charge for selecting a seat in advance in Business Class.

I wouldn't pay to fly J on BA (although I have paid a couple of times to fly J on AA) but they are fine for Avios redemptions, particularly when combined with a 241 or upgrade voucher.

Zorro1373

I signed in with Ryanair outbound and return the second the online checkout opened and they split all four of us up both times across the plane yet we all had empty seats next to us, this was deliberate and disgusting and to add insult to injury we were told to take our luggage on-board even though other people had paid to and we hadn't to avoid paying compensation as they were 3 hours late...they didn't even check our boarding passes

cemrekoi

Turkish Airlines is not on the list. They used to offer free seat selection. But I did not get to choose my seat last time I traveled.

Frozen_up_north

We have recently flown Jet2 and Ryanair without paying extra to sit together and been "randomly" allocated adjacent seats! Maybe they are suffering from the adverse publicity?

On another theme, for some odd reason the Jet2 iPhone app gave a price nearly half that shown when viewing their web site, we booked via the app and double checked a fresh dummy booking on the app and web site, the app gave the same 60% lower price.

The "check everything" rule certainly applies to booking cheap flights!

sshaw

I booked with Delta to the States for next Summer and have already reserved my seats for both the transatlantic and the US domestic flights in economy and for free