Aer Lingus - is it mandatory to purchase specific seats?

[rogeroleary]

Booked flights months ago for Malaga. Heading off Thursday and went into the > 30 hour check in facility to check in and cannot get past the "choose your seats" option? This seems crazy if if you can book them for €5 per seat per journey. Am I missing something?

Any help would be appreciated.

Roy

 

[callybags]

If you wait till within 30 hours of departure you will be allocated seats free.

 

[rogeroleary]

If you wait till within 30 hours of departure you will be allocated seats free.

aha - thanks Callybags......... AL must be the new Ryanair.

 

[so-crates]

Well there is the whole elephant of who owns a big share of AL!

But in this case, their policies and options on seating have always differed. Aer Lingus have been charging to pre-book seats long before RyanAir started down that road and when they introduced their early check-in option the only reason I could see for it was the revenue stream for pre-booked seats. As Callybags has said, just wait until the main check-in becomes available and as long as you don't desperately want an exit seat you won't pay for it.

 

[bazermc]

aha - thanks Callybags......... AL must be the new Ryanair.

Yes and apparently Ryanair want to be like AL - so, role reversal me thinks