Not Seating Children with Adults
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If the plane was being evacuated you wouldn't hold me up.FtbDreaming wrote: »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.
You really wouldn't.0 -
From the CAA
Young children and infants who are accompanied by adults should ideally be seated in the same seat row as the adult. Where this is not possible, children should be separated by no more than one seat row from accompanying adults. This is because the speed of an emergency evacuation may be affected by adults trying to reach their children.
What it does not say is an age.
From Easyjet
EasyJet does not accept unaccompanied minors under the age of 14. Children under 14 years of age cannot travel unless accompanied by a person aged 16 years or older who will take responsibility for the minor.Private Parking Tickets - Make sure you put your Subject Access Request in after 25th May 2018 - It's free & ask for everything, don't forget the DVLA
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Airlines have different age limits for unaccompanied children, the budget airlines usually higher, Ryanair it's 16 I think, but most airlines it's 12.From the CAA
Young children and infants who are accompanied by adults should ideally be seated in the same seat row as the adult. Where this is not possible, children should be separated by no more than one seat row from accompanying adults. This is because the speed of an emergency evacuation may be affected by adults trying to reach their children.
What it does not say is an age.
From Easyjet
EasyJet does not accept unaccompanied minors under the age of 14. Children under 14 years of age cannot travel unless accompanied by a person aged 16 years or older who will take responsibility for the minor.0 -
What?? You realising "holding up the passengers" includes your own child? You could end up killing your own child if you were stupid enough to go against the flow to "get" your child.FtbDreaming wrote: »Id hold up the passengers and make sure I had all my kids. Thats my job as a mum.
If you really think your child would just sit there with the plane on fire waiting for Mum to get them with everyone around them screaming and panicing and running off, then unless they have a serious mental or physical disability, you really haven't done your job as a Mum in educating them with a little common sense.0 -
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.
No TUI only seat families together up to aged 12.
We are flying the end of October, myself, my daughter and my two young grandchildren. I’ve paid the extra for seating together as my daughter was stressed they might be across the aisle or behind, rather than actually beside. Her 5 year old wouldn’t have liked that.0 -
From the CAA
Young children and infants who are accompanied by adults should ideally be seated in the same seat row as the adult. Where this is not possible, children should be separated by no more than one seat row from accompanying adults. This is because the speed of an emergency evacuation may be affected by adults trying to reach their children.
What it does not say is an age.
From Easyjet
EasyJet does not accept unaccompanied minors under the age of 14. Children under 14 years of age cannot travel unless accompanied by a person aged 16 years or older who will take responsibility for the minor.
Note the highlighted bit, it says 'ideally' , which is not a requirement .
The age of the child is a red herring as the CAA do not state what 'they' consider as a vulnerable child, and the travelling alone policy is entirely a different matter and set by the airlines. My niece regularly travelled to and from Canada at a younger age with no issues at all- although the airline did keep them separately in the airport and board them with assistance after she had gone through security. she was also met the other end and escorted to her waiting parent.I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the eBay, Auctions, Car Boot & Jumble Sales, Boost Your Income, Praise, Vents & Warnings, Overseas Holidays & Travel Planning , UK Holidays, Days Out & Entertainments boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know.. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.0 -
TUI clearly state they will sit you together where possible. I checked in yesterday for a couple of flights and it states that when you go into seat selection. You can accept their default for no charge, or choose different seats.No TUI only seat families together up to aged 12.
We are flying the end of October, myself, my daughter and my two young grandchildren. I’ve paid the extra for seating together as my daughter was stressed they might be across the aisle or behind, rather than actually beside. Her 5 year old wouldn’t have liked that.
Their free defaults has always placed us together, on the 10 or so TUI flights we've been on in the last 3 years. Some of them as a couple, and some as a group of 4 or 5 adults.
Once we tried checking in a bit late, think 4 or 5 days before the flight, and they said online checkin wasn't available, so we had to check in at the airport. Even then, we ended up together, on one of the flights right at the front in the "extra legroom" seats!0 -
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 were on fire I would hope my 13yo wouldn't be so stupid to sit and wait for mummy and daddy to come get them.Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence and face your future without fear0 -
What?? You realising "holding up the passengers" includes your own child? You could end up killing your own child if you were stupid enough to go against the flow to "get" your child.
If you really think your child would just sit there with the plane on fire waiting for Mum to get them with everyone around them screaming and panicing and running off, then unless they have a serious mental or physical disability, you really haven't done your job as a Mum in educating them with a little common sense.
If that poster believes she could hold up the passengers of a flight being evacuated, she's as deluded as King Canute.0
That's how people die of crush injuries. This discussion has been closed.
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