Paid Assigned Seating on Frontier Airlines

[Just Love Disney]

We just booked our flights from DEN to MCO and opted, for the first time, to NOT purchase our assigned seats. We are a family of 4 and our kids are older so we were just wondering if any of you have flown Frontier and declined the now $12 per person per way.

If you have declined the paid seating, was your family scattered throughout the plane or did you still manage to find seats together or close together? For every flight up until this one, we have always paid for our seat assignments but the kids want the windows and hubby and I always book an opposing isle, so we end up with a stranger between us and the kids anyway. Seems a waste of $96 r/t, but maybe we haven't thought this through and would love your opinions.

Thanks for your thoughts

 

[nacho113]

You could end up being that stranger in the middle seats (x4), depends how many others have paid for seats.
If everyone is on the same itinerary, the system will usually try to assign seats close to each other if they are available.
Again, this depends how many of the seats are purchased and where the open seats are around the plane

 

[fairy oma]

My only question would be how unhappy would you be if your family is spread throughout the plane? That said you cannot expect those passengers who opted to pay for assigned seats to give up their seats so your family can be seated more closely together and you all might very well be the passenger in the middle seat. I hope that does not happen but I cannot tell you how many times we have been the passengers in the middle seat 10 rows apart between 2 business men on their computers with elbows flying and poking the entire flight.

 

[Just Love Disney]

My only question would be how unhappy would you be if your family is spread throughout the plane? That said you cannot expect those passengers who opted to pay for assigned seats to give up their seats so your family can be seated more closely together and you all might very well be the passenger in the middle seat. I hope that does not happen but I cannot tell you how many times we have been the passengers in the middle seat 10 rows apart between 2 business men on their computers with elbows flying and poking the entire flight.

I agree 100%! It's amazing how many people try to do that and I always tell my kids to stand their ground as we paid for those seats and are NOT moving! My thoughts are that our kids plug their headphones in and ignore us anyway and/or fall asleep so why pay the extra money if we are not going to use the flight for "family time"

ETA: So your family doesn't pay for the paid seating either?

 

[fairy oma]

I agree 100%! It's amazing how many people try to do that and I always tell my kids to stand their ground as we paid for those seats and are NOT moving! My thoughts are that our kids plug their headphones in and ignore us anyway and/or fall asleep so why pay the extra money if we are not going to use the flight for "family time"

ETA: So your family doesn't pay for the paid seating either?

We started to always upgrade for the paid seat assignment because we got split up so much when travelling with extended family...DD gets extremely airsick so we need to sit next to the young grandchildren to help her out. One flight attendant even threatened to move me to the back of the plane (we were seated 4th row in back of 1st class) and I pulled out my travel itinerary and receipt to prove I had paid extra; she called over another attendant and he said they could not force me to move because I had paid extra for that seat. (by the way...it was United).

 

[n2mm]

Been split up once and will always pay the extra for assign seating, or early birds (SW). We had no control of our split up as our flight had changed and we hadn't realized they hadnt assigned us seats (United). We were 4 adults, a lap infant, and a 6 yr old. The best they could do was put the 6yo in an aisle and me across from him in an aisle seat. Everyone else had a middle seat to include daughter with a lap baby.