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Hi Guys
I managed to get a return in club world on A380
For me, the wife and my 8 year old son
LHR to DXB with BA
Using BAPP voucher and Barclays upgrade voucher
I logged in to look at seating plan
The upper deck has 3 seats together in the middle
It will be roughly £400 to £500 to book these seats for return trip
My question is
Will BA keep us together if I don’t book these seats
Should I book them or take a chance
What do you guys do?
I look forward to any advice on this
1st time flying business and looking forward to it
I paid 270k avios and £1,000 along with the vouchers
Flying out 19th December
Back on 7th January
Just need to book my economy flights to Bangkok next
I see ones with emerites for about £2,300
There are no guarantees with seating but BA will more than likely keep you together – though most likely not on the upper deck as this is very popular to pre-book. I never paid for seat selection prior to gaining status, and we flew in CW as a family of 3 numerous times and always ended up together. BA usually seats families with children together a few days before departure, although you won’t be able to see this until check-in.
£400+ is a lot of money which I’d prefer to spend on holiday!
*Bear in mind the A380 gets delayed a lot.
“Together” can mean any combination. It can be 2 seats on the left and one behind. Or two in the middle and one on the right.
I doubt you’ll get 3 seats in the middle row if you leave it for last 24 hours. There are too many people with status nowadays and they can simply book one of the middle 3.
One of my flights last year, a couple split their seats, with the wife taking the centre rear facing one in the middle 3 of the last row while hubby took the window seat.They’re travelling with an 8 year old, so will most likely have seats allocated about 3 days before departure. Booking one middle seat makes no sense, as it would require clambering over strangers to go anywhere.
Booking one middle seat makes no sense, as it would require clambering over strangers to go anywhere.
I thought the same, but the last row has some space to get out.
https://www.aerolopa.com/ba-789I believe on my last couple of OLCIs I spied a (new?) message
saying “A” parent will be sat with any under 12s. And how much
will all 3 of you be chatting together anyway?!Put the £400 towards a slap-up meal/room upgrade!
Booking one middle seat makes no sense, as it would require clambering over strangers to go anywhere.
I thought the same, but the last row has some space to get out.
https://www.aerolopa.com/ba-789With all the CW cabins the last row (centre or window) avoids the climbing over. For the same reason it’s one of the most popular so less likely to be available.
Because you’re travelling with your child BA will very likely keep at least 1 parent and your child together, the other one of you could possibly be seated behind etc. The upper deck is popular for pre-booking, especially for people with the right BA Status, so it depends how badly you want to sit on the upper deck I suppose?
The UK CAA doesn’t understand what seating ‘together’ is, so there’s no chance BA will.
I can say we were consistently seated together prior to having status, flying BA once or twice per year. The only time it didn’t happen, my son was nearly 15 and was put in the row behind us in CW, and the lady who had been put in our row was more than happy to swap as he was in a better seat than her! This was always in school holidays so flights were full. The cabin would show as full sometimes prior to T-24, but when OLCI opened we could see where we’d been seated.
Since then we’ve mainly been in CS where it’s simply not possible to sit 3 together – something to bear in mind in the event of an equipment swap! If you do pay for the seats, keep an eye out for this happening.
Don’t forget that if you do fork out £400 for seats that’s an extra 400TP. Whoo hoo! But before you get too excited I assume that it’s allocated per person rather than all to the unfortunate who actually pays for it, so an even less useful 133TP each.
Personally for flights with big cabins (so the a380, for example) I would take the middle road and pay to match a hotel status to royal jordanian silver status and have your pick 7 days before the flight.
7 days should give enough of an edge over others to get 3 together.
Alternatively just be ‘on it’ exactly 24hrs before the flight and pay nothing.
There’s nothing that’ll make me fork out those fees in full.
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