Jet 2 Seating allocation with child

steve1500

From Jet 2's T & C's


From time to time for operational, safety or security reasons we may need to assign or re-assign seats, even after boarding the aircraft. Therefore we can not always guarantee your seat selection.

Pretty standard across the airline industry.

When this debate has previously come up, people have said, I have paid for my seat & I will not move.

If the crew say move, you move. Simples

Likewise for children, be an interesting definition of unaccompanied if the child is at the back of the plane & the parent the front

We accept unaccompanied children aged 14 or over at the date of departure provided the booking is made by a person aged 18 or over.

Pollycat

steve1500 wrote: »

From Jet 2's T & C's


From time to time for operational, safety or security reasons we may need to assign or re-assign seats, even after boarding the aircraft. Therefore we can not always guarantee your seat selection.

Pretty standard across the airline industry.

When this debate has previously come up, people have said, I have paid for my seat & I will not move.

If the crew say move, you move. Simples

But I didn't say that.

steve1500 wrote: »

Likewise for children, be an interesting definition of unaccompanied if the child is at the back of the plane & the parent the front

We accept unaccompanied children aged 14 or over at the date of departure provided the booking is made by a person aged 18 or over.

I think the above refers to children travelling without an adult.
Which is not the case here.
The OP's daughter is travelling with her parent.
She is accompanied by her parent.
They are just not sat together.

lindens

I have just flown this week twice with easy jet and both times moved seats. Once at the request of the staff so an elderly lady could sit with her grown up son, and once so i could sit with my friend (however i just took up an empty seat)
I doubt very much passengers would just sit by and watch an 11 year old by herself.

Pollycat

lindens wrote: »

I have just flown this week twice with easy jet and both times moved seats. Once at the request of the staff so an elderly lady could sit with her grown up son, and once so i could sit with my friend (however i just took up an empty seat)
I doubt very much passengers would just sit by and watch an 11 year old by herself.

Did you pay to choose your seats?


I think people who have chosen to pay for specific seats will have a different attitude to being asked to move to those people who haven't paid.

daveyjp

I've had this with Jet2, been offered seats across the aircraft. 3 seats in 3 different rows.

Did nothing, went to check in and amazingly three seats together were offered.

lindens

Pollycat wrote: »

Did you pay to choose your seats?


I think people who have chosen to pay for specific seats will have a different attitude to being asked to move to those people who haven't paid.

yes i paid and chose my own seat but was sat on my own so i didn't really care where i sat
i didn't want to sit next to either the elderly mother who maybe "needy" or the son who would be cross, as they weren't sit next to each other. so was more than happy to move anyway.

Pollycat

lindens wrote: »

yes i paid and chose my own seat but was sat on my own so i didn't really care where i sat
i didn't want to sit next to either the elderly mother who maybe "needy" or the son who would be cross, as they weren't sit next to each other. so was more than happy to move anyway.

Well, that's very different to a couple travelling together who've made the choice of paying to choose specific seats and one of them being asked to move to the other end of the plane.
Unless you're in extra legroom seats or right at the front of the plane and have specifically chosen 1C because you want to be first off, when you're travelling alone one seat on a plane is very much the same as any other.

Maybe the elderly Mother and grown-up son make a habit of not paying to choose their seats and just expect other people to accommodate them.

brianposter

Pollycat wrote: »

when you're travelling alone one seat on a plane is very much the same as any other.

It is a bit more complcated than that. Some people like aisle seats, some people like window seats, some people expect to see what is below their window.
However I cant see why swapping within these categories should cause any problem.

Pollycat

brianposter wrote: »

It is a bit more complcated than that. Some people like aisle seats, some people like window seats, some people expect to see what is below their window.
However I cant see why swapping within these categories should cause any problem.

I can appreciate that it's more complicated than that.
If you've paid to choose a seat specifically for a reason, then it's all the more unlikely that you're going to be agreeable to move unless the swap seat is in the same category.
My point was about spitting a couple up.
If you're in 10b and 10c and the elderly woman is in 10a and grown up son is in 23f and cabin crew want you to move from 10b to 23f so grown up son can sit in 10b next to his Mum, then that's more difficult than just asking a lone traveller to swap seats.

zagfles

You'll almost certainly find someone willing to swap, and if not, Jet2 do move people, even those who paid for their seats, to sit families together. See https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g1-i10702-k5820751-Jet_2_Ejected_from_a_pre_booked_seat-Air_Travel.html