How does AirTran seating work?

[Mom-to-2-Princesses]

Hi, I am looking to fly AirTran for the first time - I noticed that if you buy a higher price ticket you can chose your seats now. Otherwise you chose at checkin. (the difference was BIG - $49 one way vs $178)

I will be traveling with my two daughters 11 and 8 (Girl's long weekend, leave the hubby behind!). Will they be sitting with me? What are my chances of good seats? What has been your experience?

Thanks for any advice!

 

[wdwfamilyinIL]

I may be wrong on this, but this is how it is working for us so far. We bought the cheapest fare tickets, I know that it states that you can't choose your seats until checkin but we have 3 small children going with us, so I emailed airtran, and now we have assigned seats all together. Don't know if this happens a lot or if we just got lucky, but I thought I would pass it along.

 

[DaisyD]

You can check in online and chose your seats 24 hours in advance. It is so nice to be able to get the seats you want and get them together.

 

[BonnieA]

Airtran assigns you seats. You just don't know what they are until you check in. At that time you can change your seats if you want different ones.

 

[Mom-to-2-Princesses]

Thanks for the info - I was picturing us in rows 1, 15, and 29! I couldn't understand why AirTran would set themselves up that way.

You have all relieved my mind greatly