Originally Posted by
Marathon Man
What gets me is that if you pay for a ticket to something it should automatically come with and include a freakin seat!
It does, only the airline chooses it in some cases.
I don't know who you fly with, but to use BA as an example, they claim to carry 132,000 passengers per day (March 2018). If only 20% of these pay an average £30 GBP to book a seat (my guesstimates), that's almost £300 million per year. If they don't get that ancillary revenue from seat sales then they'll get it from somewhere else. Giving the passenger the choice seems the fairest way.