Qantas - Charging for Standard Seat Choice?
Without any publicity (that I have heard anyway), Qantas now has an advanced seat request system allowing choice of seat when booking online. Great - its what you would expect from a premium, full fare "national" carrier. But on international flights, it now charges $20 for a standard seat request joining joining the ranks of discount no-frills airlines like Tiger and AsiaX. Is Qantas going cheap - why pay premium prices if you don't get anything for it? Its like going to the cinema and being charged another $5 for getting the seat of your choice! A sign that Qantas is going down the gurgler? Or just another successful attempt from Qantas to annoy and loose its customers?
Without any publicity (that I have heard anyway), Qantas now has an advanced seat request system allowing choice of seat when booking online. Great - its what you would expect from a premium, full fare "national" carrier. But on international flights, it now charges $20 for a standard seat request joining joining the ranks of discount no-frills airlines like Tiger and AsiaX. Is Qantas going cheap - why pay premium prices if you don't get anything for it? Its like going to the cinema and being charged another $5 for getting the seat of your choice! A sign that Qantas is going down the gurgler? Or just another successful attempt from Qantas to annoy and loose its customers?