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#248162 12-Mar-2019 19:54

Flying airnz to gold coast. We booked works and booked seat only for the kids. Anyone know what will happen when we get to the airport? Will airnz force us to travel together seat only? Kids are 9 and 6

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#2196860 13-Mar-2019 03:36

im not sure what you mean by "travel together seat only?"

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#2196866 13-Mar-2019 06:17

networkn: Flying airnz to gold coast. We booked works and booked seat only for the kids. Anyone know what will happen when we get to the airport? Will airnz force us to travel together seat only? Kids are 9 and 6

Doesn't it show you where you are sitting when you booked or on the tickets? Or go to manage your booking on the website and change them. Booked the kids and wife to Sydney couple of weeks ago kids got works she wanted just seat ,when I booked it gave me options for each seat kids are 5 and 7

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#2196876 13-Mar-2019 07:20

Where you sit is not determined by the service level you paid for

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#2196952 13-Mar-2019 09:00

networkn: Flying airnz to gold coast. We booked works and booked seat only for the kids. Anyone know what will happen when we get to the airport? Will airnz force us to travel together seat only? Kids are 9 and 6

Pretty sure you will all get to sit together,

But your kids will still only have "seat" service, "Works" will give you a meal and movies, while they will be restricted to TV/games only

However for $10 a head you can enable their seats to have movies for the flight...

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#2196992 13-Mar-2019 09:39

Don't want to scare you and please note that this was not with Air NZ, but is sort of related to your topic title.

2 years ago, my mother in law, sister in law and her 1yo and 3yo children were booked on Fiji Airways for a trip to Fiji. They did their booking through a travel agent and requested bassinet row.

My wife subsequently decided to join them on the trip so I booked her directly with airline.

At checkin they are told no bassinet requested in booking, but worst thing was that the in-laws and my 3yo niece were all given seats in different rows. The 3yo niece was assigned a seat on her own 2 rows away from any other adult family member. Checkin agent didn't seem to care either. They ended up sorting seats with flight attendants who asked other passengers to switch seats.

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#2197005 13-Mar-2019 09:56

kiwiharry: Don't want to scare you and please note that this was not with Air NZ, but is sort of related to your topic title.

2 years ago, my mother in law, sister in law and her 1yo and 3yo children were booked on Fiji Airways for a trip to Fiji. They did their booking through a travel agent and requested bassinet row.

My wife subsequently decided to join them on the trip so I booked her directly with airline.

At checkin they are told no bassinet requested in booking, but worst thing was that the in-laws and my 3yo niece were all given seats in different rows. The 3yo niece was assigned a seat on her own 2 rows away from any other adult family member. Checkin agent didn't seem to care either. They ended up sorting seats with flight attendants who asked other passengers to switch seats.

At 6 and 9 and being well behaved quiet and polite kids, it's not the end of the world if they sit in a different row to us, though it's certainly easier to "manage" them if we are closer.

I wondered if they might insist we sit together, and if that's the case if we would get a downgrade, or they would get an upgrade.

I try to be considerate when I travel with my kids, to minimize the impact they have on other travellers, but I am confident in their travel ability. Last year we flew them both AKL-SIN unattended minors and other than the fact the stewardesses looked like my daughter talked them to death for 12 hours, everyone arrived safely and none the worse for wear.

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#2197041 13-Mar-2019 10:13

There would be no downgrade/upgrade - the seats are all the same. They just wont get the meal and movies while you will.

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#2197055 13-Mar-2019 10:16

trig42:

There would be no downgrade/upgrade - the seats are all the same. They just wont get the meal and movies while you will.

My understanding is that the works seats are in a different part of the plane (Front and Mid) physically from the seat only (Rear).

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#2197070 13-Mar-2019 10:29

networkn:
trig42:

There would be no downgrade/upgrade - the seats are all the same. They just wont get the meal and movies while you will.

My understanding is that the works seats are in a different part of the plane (Front and Mid) physically from the seat only (Rear).

No, in my experience they don't do this. I've booked Seat only and have been seated next to people who've booked Works and vice versa.

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#2197309 13-Mar-2019 13:56

kiwiharry: Don't want to scare you and please note that this was not with Air NZ, but is sort of related to your topic title.

2 years ago, my mother in law, sister in law and her 1yo and 3yo children were booked on Fiji Airways for a trip to Fiji. They did their booking through a travel agent and requested bassinet row.

My wife subsequently decided to join them on the trip so I booked her directly with airline.

At checkin they are told no bassinet requested in booking, but worst thing was that the in-laws and my 3yo niece were all given seats in different rows. The 3yo niece was assigned a seat on her own 2 rows away from any other adult family member. Checkin agent didn't seem to care either. They ended up sorting seats with flight attendants who asked other passengers to switch seats.

Some airlines esp budget airlines yes, but not air nz

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#2197319 13-Mar-2019 14:29

ive never had an issue with the kids when booking seat only they always end up next to us, due to there being 4 of us one person normally me ends up in the row in front/behind or beside

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#2198097 14-Mar-2019 16:03

Air New Zealand will always sit minors with their appropriate caregiver.

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#2198104 14-Mar-2019 16:09

I think they change the headrest cover based on whether you are works or not so they can tell when they are bringing food around, and also the in flight entertainment does it automatically

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#2198161 14-Mar-2019 17:59

Yep works customers can just be anywhere in the plane. And the hosts/hostesses know which seats are the works seats. Plus the IFE is automatic. Wouldn't worry about it at all.

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