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Hi. We are a family of 3 (2 adults, 1 3-year-old) and have done a few trips using 1 x 241 voucher and then paying the normal amount of avios for the third person on one booking without any problems. Husband and I currently each have a 241 voucher and are looking to use them both on our next long haul trip, as we don’t have any other major trips planned that we could use them on before they expire so this is the way to get the best value out of them, otherwise the other one will just get used to go economy to France! My thinking is that one of us will book for 1 adult and 1 child using the 241, and then the other will book for 1 adult at 50% off. Is it possible to get bookings like this linked at all? It’s a 10 hr flight and would be best to all sit next to or at least near each other as our son needs entertaining, and I am a bit worried about one of us getting bumped if the bookings are not linked. Does anyone who has done this have any advice? Thank you
It’ll need to be 2 separate bookings, but we’ve done this many times with no issues. If you haven’t got status you’ll need to decide whether to pay for the certainty of sitting together, or trying to get as close as possible at OLCI. How old is your child? Be aware Club Suites may well not be suitable for a younger child.
Hi – Im trying to do boook a flight like you (2 adults 1 child) but when I try to do it with the voucher it keeps saying I can’t/
Did you have to call to book or did you do the booking as 2 adults then go in an add a child later?
Just curious as nothing I do seems to work and I’m assuming the best way is to do the 241 on the adult tickets then book a child seat as an amendment?
Any help on this one is appreciated!
When you make a 241 booking you can add normally extra passengers, just select the relevant age range from the drop-down box.
Assuming the child is not a lap infant, what might be happening is that there’s only “extra availability” left and you can only book 2 seats on those. Where are you checking for your availability? Where/when do you want to travel?
Thanks NorthernLass. Child is 3, but it will be economy as not too avios-rich at the moment and it still gives a decent saving vs cash for us and prefer the flexibility of avios bookings. Worst case we should be able to manage sat separately. I guess we will see which seats have been assigned ahead of time for the one of us booking with him and then the other can try to snag one as close as possible when check in opens.
Ajj8s – That’s strange! We did this twice last year and I just searched online for 2 adults and 1 child and clicked to apply the voucher without any issue and it worked out the 2 X avios and 3 x taxes and charges. Maybe it is that the seats remaining are only the ‘extra availability’ ones that can only be booked by applying a 241 and not for the 3rd person.
As @NorthernLass says, def. no extra availability for the third wheel/pax.!
@Cal, if you ring and give the two separate booking refs, they’ll “make a note
of it”…although will only find out what that means in July!!Hey – thanks for the response.
I’ve just come on to my PC as the app was being painful and now it works as expected.
thanks for the response though 🙂
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