Flight seats

Off on the Celebration 8th Feb. Looking at the seats on the flight, it seems that most of the seats have been booked and not a lot left together. We are a party of 6, is this a ploy to encourage you to buy a seat or do most passengers buy in advance?

Off on the Celebration 8th Feb. Looking at the seats on the flight, it seems that most of the seats have been booked and not a lot left together. We are a party of 6, is this a ploy to encourage you to buy a seat or do most passengers buy in advance?

I think because of the long haul flight a lot of people do book seats rather than risk being split up for 8/9 hours. We do - although we'd take a risk for a short flight - you may still be lucky - but the old ploy of turning up early for check-in (hoping to get more seat choice) doesn't seem to work as seats in our experience are pre-allocated. It may depend on the airport but we've not been able to make requests at check-in for some time. If your party really want to sit together (more of a problem with six of you that just a couple) I think perhaps you might have to grasp the nettle. :rolleyes:

yes...we are a family of 6 we usually stump up the seat booking fee....£180 on long haul:eek: if we dont we usually have to sit in the four corners of the aircraft:(