Does anyone pay to sit together on BA flights ?

[Robblps]

I recently bought our flights for next year with BA. Then when it came to seat selection the price is crazy.

The cheapest seats you can buy are 30 pound. These are towards the back of the plane and in the middle 4 seats. To get the end 3 seats either side, from row like 42 back its 35 pound each. Anyone who sits closer than something around row 35, its 55 pound just to choose what seat you want.

We are 3 adults so we are just going to get our seats at check in. I find it crazy that the prices are so high just to sit together. 90 pound it would cost each way if we wanted to sit at the back of the flight in the middle row. Bonkers !

Just wondering does anyone without kids actually pay for this ?

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Originally Posted by Robblps

I recently bought our flights for next year with BA. Then when it came to seat selection the price is crazy.

The cheapest seats you can buy are 30 pound. These are towards the back of the plane and in the middle 4 seats. To get the end 3 seats either side, from row like 42 back its 35 pound each. Anyone who sits closer than something around row 35, its 55 pound just to choose what seat you want.

We are 3 adults so we are just going to get our seats at check in. I find it crazy that the prices are so high just to sit together. 90 pound it would cost each way if we wanted to sit at the back of the flight in the middle row. Bonkers !

Just wondering does anyone without kids actually pay for this ?

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Loads of people do, but in the vast majority of cases it is not needed (although anytime you don't pay you run the risk of being split up)

Just do online check-in at 24 hours and you should be fine.

The most likely group sizes on a plane are 2,3 or 4 people.

So the auto-algorithm generally opts to put 4s in the middle, 3s on the sides and 2's either next to another 2 in the middle or pair them with the singles on a three row.

As you are travelling as a three, you have the most chance of any group of being sat together and not having anyone else with you

[Mo&Chris]

Last time I flew BA, it was a solo trip to Vegas, and I paid to book my seat. I specifically wanted an aisle seat, so to me it was worth the money to guarantee it.

/Mo

[Guest]

We fly in club world and it usually costs about £100 to pick each seat, there are two of us so that is an extra £400 we choose not to pay.

I used to be silver status, which allowed free seat selection at the time of booking, but I have dropped to bronze now and can only select a week in advance. I have only had one flight so far as bronze and we got seats together, but we could not get the two seats on the left or right, we ended up with two out of four in the middle.

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Originally Posted by Robblps

I recently bought our flights for next year with BA. Then when it came to seat selection the price is crazy.

The cheapest seats you can buy are 30 pound. These are towards the back of the plane and in the middle 4 seats. To get the end 3 seats either side, from row like 42 back its 35 pound each. Anyone who sits closer than something around row 35, its 55 pound just to choose what seat you want.

We are 3 adults so we are just going to get our seats at check in. I find it crazy that the prices are so high just to sit together. 90 pound it would cost each way if we wanted to sit at the back of the flight in the middle row. Bonkers !

Just wondering does anyone without kids actually pay for this ?

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I paid for our seats in premium.

[duchy]

Depends , for us we don’t as we travel non school holiday times and if we did get split up it would be a minor inconvenience not a disaster . If I travelled school holiday time with kids I’d feel differently though.

[disney332]

Yes, no problem.

Happy to pay for seat selection and travel BA. Last time we went club i think it was £75 per seat per leg and seats allocated at time of booking.

Lovely to know where on the plane you will be. A great way to take away some of the stress that seat allocation could cause.

At just over 4000 miles thats about £20 per 1000.

Disney332

[Fleagle]

I've done the same and paid for seats in Club as we (3 of us) wanted to sit together in the front club cabin on a 789.

It can be a lot but it's up to you to decide whether it's worth it or not. Personally I would pay to secure better seats.

[DebsMK]

We generally pay to sit together as I've seen the nightmare commotion when people do get split up. Last year we used our AVIOS to pay for the seats, but year before we didn't pay and previous to that we did pay when fees were introduced. It's all personal choice really and comes down to whether you will be fine if you are split up. One year lots of people on the flight were moved around because a GB team of disabled wheelchair athletes were on the flight and they all needed aisle seats, so it is a gamble really.

[Emmymouse]

We flew with them in December, LHR - BOS. We didn't pay for seats (honestly I refuse to on principle) and didn't have any issues selecting seats 24 hours before at check in. I had to do it on the phone as there was issues with my booking and had plenty of options, even on a busy (but not full) flight.

I should note there were two of us.