Air Tran Questions?

[mrscoobs]

OP - Honestly, it is hard to give you an idea of how likely it would be to get two seats together without paying for them. It all depends on how full your flight is, how many people have paid for their seats, and how close to the 24 hour mark you check in. What you can do, is continue to monitor the flight and seats available for check-in. If there continues to be many seats available AND you can check in right at 24 hours, you stand a good chance of getting two seats together (though, there are no guarantees). If the number of available seats starts to dwindle, you may want to pay to pre-select your seats.

That, in the best nutshell, is the case of the matter with selecting your seats or not for airtran!

A longer look: It all depends on how full your flight is and if you have preferences where you sit (i.e. due you want to be in the front of the plane or do not want to be located next to the double lavs and no window row of 31 where 31d actually sticks out into the aisle and can get real friendly with anyone waiting to use the restroom, then pay for your seat assignment).

If the flight is full, Airtran may, no gurantees proactively seat parties together before the flights open for 24 hour checkin to not have issues of people being split up, but it all comes down to how many open seats there are (think of the airplane diagram for, say, a 717, there are 5 seats in each row, ac aisle def, in one row someone has paid for a seat assignment in 10d, another 10f, another 11a and c, and another 11f. Now comes a party of five if those are the last seats available then they would need to be split into 10ac, 10e, and 11de multiply this selected seat scenario by the whole plane as people want window and aisle seats and you can have a very hard time getting parties together plain and simple).

 

[Inkmahm]

Here's another AirTran seat assignment question...

I bought a seat assignment, but just got an email that our "FLIGHT SCHEDULE HAS CHANGED", so basically we're leaving 2 hours later now than originally planned. Can we....

1- get out of it? Can we get a refund because of this change?

2- keep our same seat assignments if we keep the new flight time???

I've never flown AirTran before!!

Yes, you can get your ticket refunded because of this change. Yes, you are likely to keep your same seat assignments if you keep the new flight time. Check your reservation online though to make sure that they haven't been deleted.

 

[plutolovr]

Another reason to purchase your seat assignment is that if you plan on using the car seat on the plane it has to be put in a window seat. If you wait and there are no window seats left you won't be able to use the car seat.

 

[mom2prettyprincess]

So you think it is rude for people who paid for their seats not to move for those who didn't pay to be able to sit together? Really?

I am not going to start a debate over this...but again you obviously didn't read my question. I asked "What is the likelyhood we won't get seated togther if I didn't pay for my seating assignment?" Really?

How does that in anyway asking you to move your seat that you paid for because I didn't?

If it was me & I was traveling by myself & paid for my seat and there was a seat open next to me & someone asked me to move, so they could be seated with their young child, I WOULD!...Really, sometimes you need to give people the benefit of the doubt in the fact that maybe that mom or dad didn't know that they had to pay for their seating assignment. I wouldnt have know otherwise unless I had been on this board and come across people talking about it.

BTW: I did end up buying the seat assignments. Thanks to everyone who responded.

 

[crashbb]

I am not going to start a debate over this...but again you obviously didn't read my question. I asked "What is the likelyhood we won't get seated togther if I didn't pay for my seating assignment?" Really?

How does that in anyway asking you to move your seat that you paid for because I didn't?

Inkmahm was responding to a PP's post. Threads often have tangents and/or secondary lines of thoughts. Not every single post in this thread is going to directly address the questions asked in the opening post.

 

[missmissy]

Hi OP
On the seating, last time we went to DW we didn't pay the extra which was no big deal going there but coming back was another story. We did the 24 hour online check in and we were all over the place. The plane was full and there was no moving. ME, DH, DD9, DD4 got the the airport early and the people at the front desk got my 4 year by me. My 9 year old didn't care if she was by us. When we got on the plane there was a little boy 6-7ish who was sitting in our seat. His mom was sitting in front of us and she didn't pay the extra either. She said well i figured if he sat there one of you would move.
The flight attendant walked up at that time and told the lady he would have to sit in his own sit till the plane was full then they would see if anybody wanted to move. He ended up a seat behind me & my 4 year old. I felt for the lady because I had put myself in the same boat(or plane).
Like many have said here it's not worth the stress. When I was sitting at the airport I could have kicked myself for being cheap. We will be paying extra from now on.