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Very, very interesting. Must be as you said because you were flying on a freebie....

Well, there's a cynical voice. I know lots of devoted couples, some married for over 40 years, one couple for over 50 years, and they wouldn't dream of NOT sitting together.... Myself, coming up 25 years, and my husband is my favourite travel companion: of course I want to sit next to him...

Yes, but it will cost a motza won't it - let's face it we will never have the era of cheap mass travel ever again, so we have to take advantage of it now, don't we? Does anyone out there pay the extra for the carbon offset - sometimes I do pay, sometimes I don't - depends on my mood, and...

I am beginning to feel very low-caste as a "non-status" person, like a peasant really.:(

Interesting story - and of course one cannot always do the on-line check-in - say if you are remote or no computer or no internet gadget? I find that you can usually arrange with people to swap seats if there is a good reason, I would do it to help someone. Once I suffered the intermittent...

Probably! "Competition is good", dont you know?? Not when everything goes down hill and all the staff are really unhappy....

If i had paid business class airfares, I would really be annoyed to have to pay extra for the seat I want!!!

Yes, but we didn't know it wasn't compulsory, and my husband paid it not me. I would have checked it first.

Wot is "render" and wot is "iPad"????

Aer Lingus, what a terrible name, but a good airline I think - I remember flying from somewhere in the west of Ireland to Birmingham in UK once with them. We had arrived in Ireland overnight from Halifax Nova Scotia, and a little Indian boy had kicked the back of my seat all night long, and his...

Not a sweeping statement, peak oil has passed, and is a fact. And it wasn't "only $20", it was $20 per seat per sector, some of us have to work a few days to save $20 after expenses..... and travel is a treat looked forward to for many months, carefully budgeted.

Just wanted to be seen, to see if there was anyone out there in cyberland - and Yes, there sure was! :oops:

Er, why? It's rather jolly, don't you think?

I LOVE comic sans!!!!

But it adds up - it was $80 in the end for 2 people both ways. And we are loyal!!!

Didn't Alan Joyce run Ryanair at one time? Jetting around Europe one wouldn't mind the no frills approach, the flights are short. Our flight was to Hawaii - international - 10 hours, and it cost quite a bit although it was economy; I suppose I think that a long flight should include seatback...

Yes, I see all that now.... in the US a few years ago it was like that, I suppose we just copy them.

Ah, we have done lots of domestic travel in the last two years, but only the one overseas trip to Hawaii since the last round the world trip we did about 3 years ago; that explains it. I just have to be more aware and more vigilant. I don't have "status" but I think my husband does. I have to...

What about the cost of fuel - it will not last forever especially at the cheap price of today..... peak oil has already come and gone.

I am now thinking it should be in the price as an optional extra? I will re-iterate here, I have never paid this before, I always book the seat I want when I book the ticket, or as soon as it is possible to do so. I just didn't know about it before.