Booking air through Travelocity - can't select seats?

[korie]

I am not a frequent flyer, so bear with me - I noticed when trying to book our Jet Blue flight on Travelocity that "seat selection is not possible". What does this mean in terms of myself, my husband and our twin 5 year olds sitting together? Of course at the very least one of us needs to be with each kid, and obviously we'd all like to sit together...anyone know how this will work? If I were to book the same flight through Jet Blue's website, I'd be able to select the seats - but the flight is $50 more per person on their site.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Chances are, once you got to the "buy" part of the Travelocity transaction, you'd get a message telling you that price is no longer available, that it's gone up.

But, if you do/can complete the transaction through Travelocity, you should be prepared to sit apart from each other. You can try calling JetBlue afterwards to see if you can select seats, but whether they'll let you or not is a different story.

 

[bumbershoot]

I ran into that when booking Virgin America through Travelocity.

And a month or so later, I was on VA and noticed that they already had the FF info for the flight, and I could choose the seats on VA's site.

Don't know if it'll work the same with JB, but that's what happened with VA.

Of course, we haven't *taken* that flight yet, but we strive to get to the airport very very early as always, and can work things out if it didn't "take" on their site.

Good luck! Especially since it's so much less! I've never run into that situation before...I book through sites like Travelocity to get credit from a rewards site (when there are no booking fees), otherwise I'd just go through the airline, b/c the prices are always the same for when we're going!