Originally Posted by
racedo
So why are you such a tight git that you wouldn't buy them seats together..................
It's the principle of the matter racedo. And the fear would be that in the same way as luggage, catering etc becoming a costly add on to a ticket that the privilege of sitting with the person(s) that you are on the same booking as will be one that you feel compelled to pay for. It defeats the principle of a cheap, simple flight and its a new level of opportunism I thought FR even would have refrained from. As a business they have done very nicely out of treating customers with more respect, this seems to have sent them back several years, and all the time the competition is there around them and if they don't handle this well they may very well find themselves handing business away.