So I don’t get all this. Everything I buy tickets, I choose my seats unless I fly southwest. And even they are going to move to assigned seats.
Is this a new thing that you don’t get to pick your seats on some airlines? And if so, do they not seat everyone in your reservation together?
So I don’t get all this. Everything I buy tickets, I choose my seats unless I fly southwest. And even they are going to move to assigned seats.
At least when my kids were young, you’d have to pay extra to pick a seat, at least if you purchased through Expedia or Travelocity.
And if so, do they not seat everyone in your reservation together?
You know how you print your boarding pass and it has your seats? When my kids were young on multiple trips via United, AA and Delta, the boarding pass would not have a seat assignment and we’d have to go the gate agent at every gate, even on the same airline if it was not a direct flight and get our seats assigned last minute. So no, we weren’t always seated together. On one flight, none of us were in the same row with anyone in our family.
Since we were scraping by back then we always booked months in advance for cheaper tickets. I thought originally it was a fluke with just United but after the next trip, I had learned to pay extra and pick seats ahead of time.
So I don’t get all this. Everything I buy tickets, I choose my seats unless I fly southwest. And even they are going to move to assigned seats.
Is this a new thing that you don’t get to pick your seats on some airlines? And if so, do they not seat everyone in your reservation together?
You’ve never flown budget airlines like Frontier, Spirit then. They’ll charge you $20-$100 to pick seats (per seat)
And also even on mainline carriers like American/Delta with Basic Economy fares they do much the same
Even now on a major like Delta: pay to pick a seat. Pay more to sit next to your kid
At least when my kids were young, you’d have to pay extra to pick a seat, at least if you purchased through Expedia or Travelocity.
You know how you print your boarding pass and it has your seats? When my kids were young on multiple trips via United, AA and Delta, the boarding pass would not have a seat assignment and we’d have to go the gate agent at every gate, even on the same airline if it was not a direct flight and get our seats assigned last minute. So no, we weren’t always seated together. On one flight, none of us were in the same row with anyone in our family.
Since we were scraping by back then we always booked months in advance for cheaper tickets. I thought originally it was a fluke with just United but after the next trip, I had learned to pay extra and pick seats ahead of time.
That has to be seriously outdated before digital tickets. I’ve been flying United with kids for 16 years and haven’t had to pay extra to pick seats.
United only instituted a family seating policy last year so that people with kids under 12 could freely pick seats next to each other.
Seat selections are extra most of the time. If I’m traveling on a budget the cost of the seat is the same as a meal so I don’t pick it
The worst offender is Turkish airlines that charges $40 per person per leg of trip, so I’d need to pay $160 to pick seats for my upcoming trip to SEA
Lately, airlines tend to separate travellers who reserve together, probably so they’ll spend extra to change seats.
Do you have a source on SW moving to assigned seats? That’s devastating news to me :(
Early next year.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/southwest-seating-change-what-it-means/
There’s hundreds of stories on this, not sure what the best news source is for this info, but there’s a ton.
Southwest Airlines plans to start assigning seats, breaking with a 50-year tradition