Not Seating Children with Adults

Murphy_The_Cat

From recent instances of planes being evacuated, it wouldn't matter anyway - the cretins and halfwits emptying the overhead lockers and filming proceedings on their phones alreeady slow up emergency egress from planes.

gettingtheresometime

Dasa wrote: »

So if the plane was on fire would you get off or go to get your kid possibly holding up other passengers? I know what my instinct would be. This money making exercise is stupid.

Well if you're the airline / travel company the money making exercise isn't stupid because people pay it.....and given the probability of there being an emergency evacuation situation, I guess that's a risk that is out weighed by the amount of money to be made!

The only way airlines/travel companies will stop doing this is if everyone stops paying the fees. Until then why would they?

maman

It's commonplace to have to pay for reserved seats. Surely you know that OP? If you object to paying then just make sure that your teenage daughter knows where you're sitting and has plenty to occupy herself on the flight. There's every chance you'll sit together anyway or a kind neighbouring passenger travelling alone would be prepared to move.

alwaysskint96

13. Unless she has special needs why on earth would she need “looking after” My son ( now 15) prob doesn’t even notice who he is sat next to. Earphones in and tippy at phone/ iPad the whole journey

silvercar

In what way do you have to look after a 13 year old? If she isn't sat near you, where is she escaping to on a plane?

zagfles

TUI will sit you together if they can, also when you go to check in, you can see the allocated seats and you only need to pay to move them if you don't like them. I've just checked in for a TUI flight next week, we got seats together both ways for no charge.

zagfles

Dasa wrote: »

So if the plane was on fire would you get off or go to get your kid possibly holding up other passengers? I know what my instinct would be. This money making exercise is stupid.

If the plane was on fire a fit 13 year old would likely be the first off! Easier for them to dodge around the cretins trying to get their stuff out of the overhead lockers than an old or fat person.

Davy_Jones_II

Michael24 wrote: »

We have a holiday booked with TUI for half term and have been told that we have to pay £75 to guarantee that our 13 year old daughter sits with one of us, I find this quite abhorrent as I feel blackmailed into paying that amount as I can’t possibly let her be put at risk of sitting anywhere on the plane and I am not able to look after her.

Dear god, abhorrent?

What possible risk do you think there is of a thirteen year-old sitting a few rows away from you on a commercial flight? If she’s really as libidinous as you suggest then maybe it’s better staying at home?

FtbDreaming

So if the plane was on fire would you get off or go to get your kid possibly holding up other passengers?!

Id hold up the passengers and make sure I had all my kids. Thats my job as a mum.

As for the OP i would just let a 13 YO sit elsewhere rather than pay the fee. I didn't pay for seats last year just checked in the minute check in opened. All 5 of us sat together.

mattyprice4004

Abhorrent :rotfl: get a grip. She’s 13 and is more than capable - if you don’t feel she is, pay the price and then examine your parenting to assess why not.

It’s a non issue.