• Do you fly solo, as a couple or as a large group sometimes?
• How important is it to sit together?

To some travelers, seat choice is a major factor for comfort and efficiency (window, aisle, front of the plane or back). With the lowest economy fares for many airlines removing the seat choice option, seat selection is costing more and prioritized to the passengers who opt in for the higher seat rates.

Especially when you travel with a group (like our family of 11 traveling down to a family cruise), sitting together was part of the experience with excited conversations continuing. In this case we opted for the extra fees and called the airline early to coordinate seating by couple and within a batch of 4 rows together. To have everyone split up and disconnected wasn’t an option in the group experience we wanted to have.

For solo travelers, couples or groups where it’s not as critical to sit together, the best advice we have is:

• Once seats are booked and ticketed, after a day or two go to the airlines “manage my flight” web page, log in with your name and flight reference number and see if better seating is available to get that window seat or behind the wing option.
• “check in” as early as your airline allows to choose from the best remaining seats available.
• As you are checking your luggage the day of your flight, ask the check in desk if there are upgrade or “better” seat options to get the seat you want.

~ GG Staff

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