 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'd guess that's just to choose your seat, it's about the right price (quite cheap actually!). I'd expect you to be assigned a seat if you leave it, same as any other flight.
I did a cruise (sail out, fly back) from Barbados a few yrs back - P&O/Thomas Cook - paid £150 each for the 'premium' seats back. Waste of money - still no legroom and most folks in there hadn't paid for the upgrade, so if you get that offer, wait til the last minute as it dropped in price quite a lot.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Morning mountainaddict, mrs Kiteman and I always pay the extra to book our seats when we fly to Florida.
On TC the planes are usually a 2-4-2 seat configuration, so we choose seats A and C (no B) as close to the front of the plane as possible so we can gt to the front of the queue at immigration.
If however you don't mind sitting next to someone whose bodily hygiene is not paramount to them, or who does not know arm rest etiquette, or you don't mind queuing for 1-2 hours to get through immigrsation .............................. then I would save your money
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I've flown with Thomas Cook a few time, I haven't paid for seats but always been allocated adjacent seats. I also have done the P&O cruise from Barbados, I can't remember queueing for immigration I think we were bussed straight from the plane to the ship terminal shed where you have to queue for formalities.
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Most the airlines charge you to select a seat now. It's just another way of getting money out of you. As a parent travelling with children, it prays on my fears that we will not all sit together. Therefore, I end up paying the bloody charges.
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Isn't that a bonus with kids ? 
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We have just returned from Barbados flying with Thomas Cook so can answer your question.
We had booked through gotogate and got a price lower than on the Thomas Cook site. We never pay to get allocated seats and have never not been seated together. Yes the plane configuration is 2-4-2 but we were happy with the seats we got when we booked in on line for the Manchester flight. It is not possible to book in on line in Barbados so you need to queue at check in. The return flight wasn't full and we had the centre 4 seats to ourselves.
It did take a while for immigration but that was because the Thomas Cook flight was late and managed to arrive just as the Virgin flight also came in so they had 2 flights to deal with together.
We are not nervous travellers and just take life as it comes and its normally all fine....
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FAQ
who have travelled on a long haul Thomas Cook charter flight... 
) and have had a message to say we could book seats ahead of the Thomas Cook charter flights.
- much obliged.
