Originally Posted by
dmahon
As your son is 2 years old and your other seats are not next to each other, they can't even suggest that you allow him to have one of your reserved seats. They will have to allocate him a seat next to one of you - he is too young for Skyfliers Solo.
PS - you can book the 2-4-1 for your wife and son online - just select the right people from your household account (and keep reselecting them at each stage, otherwise it will reset it to you plus someone else). You do end up with 2 PNRs though these days (if using miles for all bookings, it used to be possible to get them all on one PNR - now when you try that it forgets the 2-4-1 discount and charges the full miles allocation).
Thanks - that's well worth knowing, I'll work on coercing the wife that we can leave it to the last minute!
Originally Posted by
Hubbabridge
Pay the £60, it isn't worth getting worked up over, it's only money. You could fly with someone else as others have suggested but then you wouldn't get the 2-4-1, I know what I would prefer....
I'll probably pay the £60 for peace of mind, but if I do I'm moving my next month worths of domestic sectors onto bmi (flight times the same anyway) to relieve some frustration. That's about £1,200 worth of lost revenue to BA, sad thing is that they will probably regard the policy as a success for generating an extra £60.