Virgin Check-in Advice

[Guest]

Hi,

We're a group of 15, 11 adults, 2 children and 2 babies. Flying out of Gatwick on 13th May with Virgin, economy seats booked via an agent. We have 13 actual seats in total, babies will be passed around on laps (should be fun).

So my question is, we've been told it's £50 per person to do advanced seat allocation, which all adds up! Do people generally pay to book their seats, or will we be ok if we get online as soon as check in opens to reserve our seats together being such a large party?

I'm assuming Virgin do online check in a few days beforehand, anyone know when this opens up?

Thanks in advance :-)

[loola30]

Are you members of Virgin Flying Club? If not join now - you will get free allocation of your seats at 72 hours pre-flight!

[Guest]

thanks! I'll check this out, we've been split over 2 bookings, I'm not the lead passenger on either... assume the lead needs to be a member?

[jojo82]

Originally Posted by BassLAD

thanks! I'll check this out, we've been split over 2 bookings, I'm not the lead passenger on either... assume the lead needs to be a member?

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I'm not 100% sure but I think everyone needs to register as a member for you to all be able to book 72 hours before... Someone will come along with the proper info soon

[Guest]

Originally Posted by jojo82

I'm not 100% sure but I think everyone needs to register as a member for you to all be able to book 72 hours before... Someone will come along with the proper info soon

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Thank you, I'll wait for the experts 😊

[1tedc]

Evrey one needs to be flying club members to book seats at 24hrs including children all the information is on the flying club website

[Guest]

Originally Posted by 1tedc

Evrey one needs to be flying club members to book seats at 24hrs including children all the information is on the flying club website

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Ok, so I've now become a member and it says I get to check in 72 hours before.

Could someone explain how it works in theory, if we all have to have memberships, how do we make sure we're all linked to the same booking to ensure one person can check in and perform the reservation in one go? Do we check in via the flying club website? I see on my account I have to enter the booking reference, assume we all have to do that once we all have memberships set up?

[speedwayfan]

Originally Posted by BassLAD

Ok, so I've now become a member and it says I get to check in 72 hours before.

Could someone explain how it works in theory, if we all have to have memberships, how do we make sure we're all linked to the same booking to ensure one person can check in and perform the reservation in one go? Do we check in via the flying club website? I see on my account I have to enter the booking reference, assume we all have to do that once we all have memberships set up?

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In short, yes. On each booking the name of every passenger will be listed. Enter all their details, including FC number and then everyone will be able to allocate seats for free T-72 hours and check in T-24 hours.

HTH
Jill

[Guest]

Thanks everyone much appreciated

[philinmerthyr]

Originally Posted by loola30

Are you members of Virgin Flying Club? If not join now - you will get free allocation of your seats at 72 hours pre-flight!

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We are members of Flying club and never pay for seat booking. It works well for us