Originally Posted by bhomburg;35074315
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The way airline ticket pricing works these days, what may happen is the price for one seat is $40, and then the second and/or third seat is $55 or whatever - because the cheap fare bucket is sold out and the price goes up to the next fare class in line. Very common for people who book travel for groups or large families.[/color]
But no, they do not deny those requests.That'd be a lawsuit and very bad press just waiting to happen.
Airlines are not comparable to Bolt Bus - type transportation where buying multiple seats but occupying just one of them is frowned upon and will get you a seat neighbor anyway.if the bus is full.
Frontier's COS policies explicitly mentions that affected passengers "should book two seats prior to travel", and my experience with booking additional seats for my dog across multiple airlines is that airlines are always happy about people like me who do that because most don't and then there's issues when the flight is full... I`ve had COS sit next to me being reseated there by the CC/GA during the boarding process, occupying most of the empty seat *I* paid for.
The way airline ticket pricing works these days, what may happen is the price for one seat is $40, and then the second and/or third seat is $55 or whatever - because the cheap fare bucket is sold out and the price goes up to the next fare class in line. Very common for people who book travel for groups or large families.
But no, they do not deny those requests.That'd be a lawsuit and very bad press just waiting to happen.
Airlines are not comparable to Bolt Bus - type transportation where buying multiple seats but occupying just one of them is frowned upon and will get you a seat neighbor anyway.if the bus is full.
Yes, I book my family all the time, and very familiar with how it works. We always split the reservation at whatever point the low bucket goes to 0.
My point was that it's an interesting situation with Frontier, where they derive over half their revenue from ancillary. Ask yourself this -- what would happen if 60 people each book 3 seats on a single flight? Frontier would clearly get less revenue off that flight than if they had 180 passengers. Yes, it's a thought experiment. But taken to the extreme, I think you can see why Frontier would start to think about ways to keep the passengers from booking extra seats.