Cheap airline seating

OwenMc64 · 21 March 2018 at 1:47PM

While I've yet to take the flight, I was able to book my seats for both legs of my return flight to Argentina for no extra charge when I made the original booking.

Now I didn't go for the bog-standard seating - I was checking in baggage, so that was included. From their website
"Seat reservation is included in all tickets, except for LowFare, where all our extra services are optional."

kennymcc · 21 March 2018 at 1:51PM

OK, this is slightly off-topic, but I need to ask!

I'm flying to the US in a couple of days, and I'm booked to fly economy with an Irish airline. The airline have a seat selector page on their website where you can select most economy seats for free or slightly nicer seats (probably a bit more legroom, but still in economy) for 20-odd quid. When I was trying to select my seat for the outward journey, the page looked slightly broken, and one the available seats (for the princely sum of £27) was in Business Class! Obviously I grabbed it (duh), but I'm slightly panicked now! Has anyone heard of such a thing? Are they likely to refuse to give me the seat? What if the flight is full? Can they kick me off?

When I look at my booking online, I'm still on an economy ticket, but the seat I've been allocated is definitely in Business Class (4G - I checked their seat maps). It's really weird.

A_Frayed_Knot · 21 March 2018 at 1:54PM

Have booked with the dreaded Ryanair, as flying solo last time, prebooked Priority because I wanted to take my luggage on the plane with me, they then gave me my seat no, which was an aisle seat. Perfect.

This time travelling +1, so wanted two seats together, and as usual we got different rows, different sides, and the middle seat for 1. Saw on the seat plan that there was an empty seat beside me, so accepted the two different seats, then went back in and changed the other seat to beside me, meaning we only paid for 1 booking reserved seat. (Hope that makes sense, to you all).

Would just like to mention as well, that we booked the holiday with On the Beach, if you reserve Priority and your seat, they were charging X4 the amount Ryanair were.

ps - Had to book seats on the way back, so I could print out my/our boarding passes, cause I'm a numpty when it comes to apps and internet on my phone.

Brighty1861 · 21 March 2018 at 2:24PM

Brats64 wrote: »

Hi,

Been reading the airline seating thread.
Your No 7 tip states that you can choose your seats for free with Virgin Atlantic as soon as you book,as long as you are checking in baggage to the hold.
We have used Virgin quite a few times to fly to the states,and they always want a fee for pre-booked seats.
We have a trip booked with them to New York in May,and if I try to book seats,they want £30 per seat...how is that free?

I thought that as well and logged straight into Virgin but it was £30 a seat.

Gloomendoom · 21 March 2018 at 3:14PM

Ivanka_A wrote: »

Singapore Air do free seating allocation when you book.

Sadly, I'm pretty sure that changed earlier this year.

BorisThomson · 21 March 2018 at 3:24PM

kennymcc wrote: »

OK, this is slightly off-topic, but I need to ask!

I'm flying to the US in a couple of days, and I'm booked to fly economy with an Irish airline. The airline have a seat selector page on their website where you can select most economy seats for free or slightly nicer seats (probably a bit more legroom, but still in economy) for 20-odd quid. When I was trying to select my seat for the outward journey, the page looked slightly broken, and one the available seats (for the princely sum of £27) was in Business Class! Obviously I grabbed it (duh), but I'm slightly panicked now! Has anyone heard of such a thing? Are they likely to refuse to give me the seat? What if the flight is full? Can they kick me off?

When I look at my booking online, I'm still on an economy ticket, but the seat I've been allocated is definitely in Business Class (4G - I checked their seat maps). It's really weird.

I've seen this happen before (on KLM, not Aer Lingus), and the passenger will be reallocated before check in. The chances of getting an upgrade are not nil, but as near as, so pick the seat you want to sit in (in economy), otherwise you'll end up wherever they put you.

onionbag05 · 21 March 2018 at 3:38PM

Flying to Dubai on Sunday with Royal Brunei from Heathrow. They have let us select seats before check in with no charge. Also they were cheap to book originally. !!!55357;!!!56397;

Karob · 21 March 2018 at 4:45PM

Hi

I flew with partner to Trieste recently. Checked in the day before and were automatically allocated two middle seats one behind the other, in extra legroom rows. Two people travelling together boarded having checked in the morning of the flight and were allocated the adjacent window seats to us, again one behind the other. Of course we swapped, didn't ask the flight crew! On return we were allocated aisle seats 10 rows apart. Again two people travelling together had been allocated the middle seats next to ours. Again we swapped without asking! Safety is an issue. In emergency will partners try to find each other resulting in chaos?

silvercar · 21 March 2018 at 6:27PM

kennymcc wrote: »

OK, this is slightly off-topic, but I need to ask!

I'm flying to the US in a couple of days, and I'm booked to fly economy with an Irish airline. The airline have a seat selector page on their website where you can select most economy seats for free or slightly nicer seats (probably a bit more legroom, but still in economy) for 20-odd quid. When I was trying to select my seat for the outward journey, the page looked slightly broken, and one the available seats (for the princely sum of £27) was in Business Class! Obviously I grabbed it (duh), but I'm slightly panicked now! Has anyone heard of such a thing? Are they likely to refuse to give me the seat? What if the flight is full? Can they kick me off?

When I look at my booking online, I'm still on an economy ticket, but the seat I've been allocated is definitely in Business Class (4G - I checked their seat maps). It's really weird.

Could it be a plane that has a second smaller cabin that is also economy but usually reserved for frequent flyers? Or it could be a plane change and the graphic hasn't caught up with itself yet.

James_Crossfield · 21 March 2018 at 6:40PM

Was on a Thomas Cook flight to Tunisia recently and the front row of seats were empty. When passengers attempted to sit in them they were informed by the steward that to do so they must pay £35. Needless to say all seats remained empty.

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