Cheap airline seating

richardw

DIN wrote: »

...Looking around at the packed aircraft I wonder exactly where I was supposed to put it once opened?

The pictogram by the window clearly advises what you should do with it.
The safety card also clearly shows what to do.

There's a video on YouTube https://youtu.be/RCFzEg-t_Bk

PeacefulWaters

baza52 wrote: »

4G would suggest the seat has 6 other seats to the left. (4A-4F) and if thats the case it wont be business class.
A 747 economy cabin is 3x4x3 in general and premium economy would perhaps be 2x3x2.
Business class is not going to have at least 7 seats per row. more like 4

It's not uncommon for business class seats to be numbered A,C,E,G. Or similar based on plane width.

Dolly2cv

I believe all children should be seated next to a parent at no cost on any flight, This should be a standard requirement. Any persons whom have access to children through work , volunteering or otherwise are required by law to be DBS checked . So why is an airline such as Ryanair being allowed to dictate a compulsory extra cost for you to be guaranteed a seat next to your child , should you not be willing to pay , they should not be seating your child next to anybody else other than the child's parent unless they can provide evidence that the complete stranger whom they intend seating your child next to has an up to date DBS certificate? This needs regulating.

gettingtheresometime

Dolly2cv wrote: »

I believe all children should be seated next to a parent at no cost on any flight, This should be a standard requirement. Any persons whom have access to children through work , volunteering or otherwise are required by law to be DBS checked . So why is an airline such as Ryanair being allowed to dictate a compulsory extra cost for you to be guaranteed a seat next to your child , should you not be willing to pay , they should not be seating your child next to anybody else other than the child's parent unless they can provide evidence that the complete stranger whom they intend seating your child next to has an up to date DBS certificate? This needs regulating.

Because you're paying Ryanair to get you from a to b rather than from a to b sat next to your travelling companion.

The only way airlines will stop these charges is if there was UNIVERSAL refusal to pay these extra charges. Until that happens, they have no incentive to not try to charge these charges

Lindagreenacre

We chose and paid for exit row seats with Emirates. A couple of weeks before we were due to fly, I checked to see all was well. It wasn't. We still had the same seat numbers, but not where we had chosen. I phoned Emirates and the person I spoke with denied there was a change of plane, but would phone back. He didn't, so the next day, I phoned again and spoke to someone, more helpful, who did confirm that the plane had been changed. Within a few hours we got confirmation of our new seat numbers. On checking in, we were told that we could not have the seats we had paid for (£125 each). We stood our ground and did eventually get them.
Something similar happened with Virgin. We paid for Economy Extra seats and, without telling us, the journey was changed to fly with Delta, which does not have Economy Extra.

Pollycat

Dolly2cv wrote: »

I believe all children should be seated next to a parent at no cost on any flight, This should be a standard requirement. Any persons whom have access to children through work , volunteering or otherwise are required by law to be DBS checked . So why is an airline such as Ryanair being allowed to dictate a compulsory extra cost for you to be guaranteed a seat next to your child , should you not be willing to pay , they should not be seating your child next to anybody else other than the child's parent unless they can provide evidence that the complete stranger whom they intend seating your child next to has an up to date DBS certificate? This needs regulating.

So if a parent is not prepared i.e. willing to pay to safe-guard their children, you expect an airline to step up and consider the child's welfare when the parent won't?

richardw

Dolly2cv wrote: »

I believe all children should be seated next to a parent at no cost on any flight, This should be a standard requirement....

What does the CAA say on this?

Pollycat

richardw wrote: »

What does the CAA say on this?

I think we know what the CAA says on this...;)

carlaj

I agree. I also have tickets booked to South Africa and to Seattle with Virgin and they want £30 to preselect a seat. There was some message about 'if you booked before 18th March' so perhaps only new bookings get that privilege? (which seems unfair to penalise you for booking early) I'm a virgin flying club member and they say you can check in 4 days before the flight and choose a seat then.

richardw

Pollycat wrote: »

I think we know what the CAA says on this...;)

If they have no teeth to enforce what they say, why bother saying it?