How does reserving seats with Air Tran work?

[BubblPopElectrc]

I am flying with Air Tran in August. I bought my tickets through Disney, and when I did, she said that she reserved our three seats so that they will be together.

Would she have been able to do this?

I feel like I read somewhere online that you cannot reserve your seats until 24 hours in advance (Maybe I am thinking of Southwest).

Any ideas?

 

[supersuperwendy]

I may be wrong...so correct me someone if I am...

With airtran..when i booked our flights...for each flight there were different prices..as you go up in price..you get the option of picking your seats at time of purchase. We bought the cheapest they had...so we don't pick our seats until check-in.

 

[bob_bldr]

We bought our AirTran tix for December about 3 weeks ago and paid the higher price to reserve our seats. We paid approx. $60 extra per round-trip ticket. We still paid less than our last flight on SW and now we are sitting in the first row and don't have to worry about the 24 hour check in. It works for us.

 

[dudspizza]

The way Airtran works is that the cheaper tickets are not allowed seat assignment until 24 hour check in. HOWEVER, if booked with a travel agent, they can get your seats assigned. It sounds like this is what Disney did. In the past, purchasing Airtran tickets via Disney meant a paper ticket that required check in at the airport. You had to get there really early to make sure you got seats together.... I personally would call just to make sure....

Duds

 

[plutolovr]

I'm a travel agent, and when we book through Airtran we can pick the seats at booking no matter what the price point.

 

[wdwfamilyinIL]

When I booked airtran back in Jan, we had the cheapest fllights. While normally you can't pick your seats, I emailed them about the fact that we had three small children in our group, and they assigned us 7 seats together for both flights.