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re: Couple FAFO’d by not reserving seats on a flight
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:54 am to ATrillionaire
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:54 am to ATrillionaire
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It absolutely is the airline's fault.
How?
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hey sold them tickets which should be attached to seats.
The couple elected to not reserve their seats. They rolled those dice.
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The airline had to switch to a smaller plane. There is a reason why the airline flew them on another flight and refunded their tickets.
Correct, they did switch to a smaller plane. Which is why they refunded the person who did not have a seat on the plane. The other, however, had an available seat and chose not to take it. It's not like it was a parent and a child either where an expectation would be that they travel together. These were two adults and they absolutely could've flown separately and elected not to.
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Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:54 am to TorchtheFlyingTiger
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This isnt some hack
It's literally the basic economy choice on most airlines now. Calling it a hack is false. Airlines offer this rate as a way to nickel and dime people out of more money.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:55 am to JiminyCricket
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What a pair of entitled whiners. No one made you go cheap and not reserve a seat and it's not the airlines fault that you willingly forfeited an open seat.
What a dumbass lol
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:55 am to dyslexiateechur
I never reserve seats when flying domestically. You pay $xxx for a ticket, just to get to a screen where you have to chose a seat and all seats cost $xx more.
So I just let them randomly assign me at boarding
So I just let them randomly assign me at boarding
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:56 am to dyslexiateechur
Of course the OT would defend some shitty airline. You shouldn't have to pay extra to reserve a spot
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:56 am to JiminyCricket
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It's not like it was a parent and a child either where an expectation would be that they travel together. These were two adults and they absolutely could've flown separately and elected not to.
If I book together, I absolutely have an expectation to fly together.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:56 am to Joshjrn
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I have no issue with their getting bumped, but if the two tickets were purchased at the same time as part of the same itinerary, I disagree with you and the airline about charging them. Whether I reserve seats or not, if I buy a two ticket itinerary, I expect to travel with the other person. If you only have one seat, shite happens, bump us both to the next flight. But to require us to travel separately is unreasonable, in my opinion.
Now, if they purchased the tickets separately, that’s another issue entirely.
And if they both had reserved seats and were unable to travel with their purchased seat, I would agree with you. These folks chose to forego security of their seat in exchange for a cheaper price and got burned. That's on them.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:57 am to ATrillionaire
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If I book together, I absolutely have an expectation to fly together.
You can expect whatever you want, doesn't make it reality when you're the one that decided to go cheap and not reserve a seat.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:58 am to SlowFlowPro
do all english women look like this and lily phillips, and bonnie blue now?
Posted on 6/26/25 at 8:59 am to Odysseus32
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Maybe this is me being a baby back bitch, but flying is one area I'm not about to skimp on.
Same. I rarely fly and if i do it’s for a vacation. I don’t want to leave at 3 am, change planes 3 times, have a 7-hour layover, etc., to save a few hundred.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 9:00 am to JiminyCricket
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You can expect whatever you want, doesn't make it reality when you're the one that decided to go cheap and not reserve a seat.
And yet in the end, they flew together for free.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 9:00 am to ATrillionaire
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If I book together, I absolutely have an expectation to fly together.
Then reserve your seats
Posted on 6/26/25 at 9:00 am to Rick9Plus
I’m a terrible flyer so I always reserve the seat away from the window.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 9:01 am to ATrillionaire
They were charged for the one ticket they didn’t use as well as the second flight.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 9:01 am to htran90
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Ryanair is the frontier of Europe.
If it was Ryanair and they ain't changed since 2010 or so when you book a ticket you know what you are getting unless you are a complete idiot. A flight from Frankfurt to London for 99 cents is not going to have any frills. We flew them a bunch from 2007-2012 and knew what we were buying when we bought tickets.
We had some friends who came to visit us in Europe and we drove from London to Inverness and flew from Inverness to Rome on Ryanair. I warned them when we left Germany (We flew Lufthansa to London from Munich) that Ryanair was SERIOUS about weight limits on checked bags. Out tickets from Inverness were something like 5 pounds a piece. They thought I was exaggerating. I reminded them that I had warned them when we got to the gate and they had on 6 days worth of clothes they had removed from their overweight baggage at the check in counter. They were not, to say the least, happy with me LOL. It did not get any better when we got to Rome and the found out the Hotel I had booked was adjacent to a military base and every corner had young, scantily clad women climbing in and out of cars that stopped to pick them up....
Posted on 6/26/25 at 9:03 am to Porter Osborne Jr
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If I book together, I absolutely have an expectation to fly together.
Then reserve your seats
And if everyone reserved their seats? They still would have bumped some folks off.
Booking your flight together is supposed to guarantee that you fly together. Reserving seats only guarantee (maybe) that you sit together.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 9:03 am to dyslexiateechur
Most airlines have a ‘basic economy’ cheaper price. Part of the risk is you can’t pick your seat so if traveling together, most likely you won’t be seated together. You get your seat assigned at the gate. I don’t know for sure, but I imagine you’re the first one bumped as well.
Because you paid bare bottom price, I don’t feel sorry for you. You knew the rules and took the risk.
Glad I have a highly elevated United status so get priority everywhere and never face this issue.
Because you paid bare bottom price, I don’t feel sorry for you. You knew the rules and took the risk.
Glad I have a highly elevated United status so get priority everywhere and never face this issue.
This post was edited on 6/26/25 at 9:09 am
Posted on 6/26/25 at 9:03 am to Porter Osborne Jr
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Then reserve your seats
100%. "I want to save money by purchasing a plane ticket that is, by nature, less secure but cheaper and then cry about it when I get the short end of that dice roll."
Posted on 6/26/25 at 9:04 am to dyslexiateechur
From what I can glean from the article, not picking your seat isn't much different than flying standby. It's cheaper, but there's always the chance the plane will fill up with customers who have paid full price. If that happens, suck it up because you made the choice to be a cheap-arse.
If you don't want to risk being left behind, either pony up the money to pick an assigned seat or do a vacation you can actually afford.
If you don't want to risk being left behind, either pony up the money to pick an assigned seat or do a vacation you can actually afford.
Posted on 6/26/25 at 9:04 am to ATrillionaire
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There is a reason why the airline flew them on another flight and refunded their tickets.
Except this didn't happen at all. There was zero refund. One ticket was transferred at no cost, the couple forfeited the other and came out of pocket for a new ticket. It's all right there in the article.
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