by If you get started with your children on vacation this summer, you may be amazed at seating.
It is common for airlines to summarize groups for guaranteed seats, especially for short -haul flights, but this can be an additional vacation costs.
For example, if you travel as a family of four, this can cost an additional 100 pounds for a return flight.
The costs can be worthwhile to ensure that they are sitting next to their children. But do you actually have to pay? No, in most cases.
While most airlines cannot guarantee that their whole family, such as British Airways and TUI, guarantee that children are free of charge with a parent.
Others, including Easyjet and Jet2, say that they always strive to sit a child next to their parent – or as close as possible if this is not achievable. However, the rules are a little different when it comes to Ryanair.
You need to know the following about seat guidelines and guidelines of the individual airline.
What is the law on the division of children and parents in airplanes?
There is currently no law that children and parents have to sit together on a plane. However, there are guidelines that should follow airlines.
The civil aviation authority (CAA), which regulates the Aviation Industry in Great Britain, is said: “Airlines should surrender to children under the age of 12 in the same row or no more than a series or a course of their train adults.”
One of the main reasons for this is security because an emergency evacuation of people could be slowed down, who try to reach their children.
While most airlines have processes to ensure that children sit next to a parent, these are just guidelines. The CAA recommends contacting your airline to confirm your seating guidelines before flying.
Popular guidelines of the British airline on family seats
British respiratory tract
Children under the age of 12 are guaranteed to sit in an adult
BA recommends choosing seats in advance to guarantee that your whole family is sitting together. Regardless of whether they reserve their seats or not, children under the age of 12 will always sit out of their party with an adult.
According to the BA website: “If you do not select your seats in advance, we always do our best to put together your family based on the availability of flight seat. This can mean that you sit in adjacent rows or across the corridor. All children under 12 years sit with an accompanying adult.”
Easyjet
Children under the age of 12 who are guaranteed to sit near an adult, sit
Easyjet says that it will always try to sit together, but since the seats on a base in the first class are assigned, the best way is to ensure that this checked in as early as possible.
If you leave it at the last minute, the airline says: “We will still make sure that every child under the age of 12 sits near an adult when booking. However, we can only arrange this at the airport or on board what can cause delays for you and other passengers and not everyone sits together.”
Jet2
Children under the age of 12 who are guaranteed to sit near an adult, sit
While children are not guaranteed to sit next to an adult, Jet2 says that they will always sit as close as possible.
On the website it says: “As a family -friendly airline, we will always do our best to set children and infants under the age of 12 next to their adults. If this is not possible for some reason, we ensure that children are as close as possible.”
Ryanair
Mandatory for adults who travel with children under the age of 12 to reserve a seat
Ryanair’s politics differs from most other airlines. It is said that children under the age of 12 have to sit next to an adult. To ensure that this is done, adults have to book a seat, and the children will receive a reserved seat next to them “free of charge”.
The obligatory family seat of an adult cost between 4.50 and 13.50 GBP per flight.
On the wearer’s website, it says: “For security reasons, children under the age of 12 have to sit next to an accompanying adult, and infants (8 days to 23 months at the age of 23 months) have to sit on a lap of an adult. It is mandatory. It is mandatory. For an adult who travels with children under 12 (excl. the same booked.
Tui
Children under the age of 12 are guaranteed to sit in an adult
TUI guarantees that children sit with them or other adult when booking. On the company’s website, it says: “Only so that you know that with a child under the age of 12 you make sure that you are in your party with at least one adult.”
Wizz Air
Children under the age of 14 are guaranteed to sit in an adult
While Wizz Air says that her whole family may not be sitting together, children aged 2 to 14 are sitting from their party next to a parent or adults.
The airline explains: “During the check-in process, the adult and the child will automatically receive seats next to each other. Please note that the whole family may not sit together because the child sits next to one of the adults.”
