Viking Airlines

[Ben178v]

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[mariakirk]

I need Help!!!

I am travelling in August with Viking airlines. In our party their will be 4 passengers (2 adults and 2 children) The problem is that I haven't pre-booked seats together. I am now losing sleep with worry!!! Will we have seats together as we have two children? I can't possibly have them sitting on their own or next to strangers. My husband is a nervous flyer so although he will not be sitting next to the children (in case they feed off of his nerves!) I would like him withing easy distance so that I can keep an eye on him. He suffers panic attacks and was also wondering if their is anything that I can get for this? also how are the crew with helping nervous, panicky flyers?

Please help, my main concern is the seating! Surely they wont sit children with strangers... I just don't know what to do!

[mariakirk]

Flying Viking Help!!!

Please help!

In August I am flying with Viking Airlines, I have 2 children and a very nervous husband!!! The problem is that I have forgotten to book seats together.

My question is:

As I have two kids (aged 10 and 5) will they sit me with the children? I am really concerned that we may be spitt up and the children may be sitting with strangers. I can't bear the though of this. It is their first time flying and I don't know how they are going to react.

My other question:

My husband is very nervous and suffers dizzy spells due to panic attacks, how likely is it that he will get a seat in the same row as us? Is their anything that he can take for the panic attacks?

I would really appreciate your advice on this!!

[Britannia]

Have you tried https://www.flyviking.com/reservatio...erator&isNew=1

£10 to select a seat

[HXdave]

with regards to panic attacks, my wife suffered them a while ago (not because of flying, different reasons, stress etc). having been to see the doc, she was prescribed Propanolol (or something like that), and she takes them if she feels the indications of a panic attack coming on. luckily she has hardly ever had to use them since, however they are there if needed.

so it might be best going to your local GP, explain the circumstances and see if he will prescribe something. if not, try speaking with your local pharmacy, see if they can reccomend something that you can get on non-prescription.

Regards

HXDave

[Lafyar Cokov]

If you do have a problem finding seats together - a quiet word with the cabin crew on board may well be able to sort this out. While they cannot guarantee to be able to help - they may well try to sort it on board. Obviously if you can arrange seats together now (and you've left plenty of time so it shouldn't be a problem) then that is better - but if you haven't managed to sort it by the day, the cabin crew will normally do all within their powers to help you out!

[malagamike]

i would strongly suggest calling the airline and prebooking your seats together. if its your first flight with the children and a nervous husband you would be shooting yourselves in the foot not doing this.
remember most airlines now, dont guarantee seats together - thats why you can prebook/prepay in advance.
doing this will solve your problem.
hope this helps

[Fr8t M8te]

DO contact the airline explaining all the circumstances and I am sure they will be able to help.

[LadyR]

Oh My God!!!!

We have ended up booked on a viking flight from manchester to paphos on 1st august and after reading reviews all over the place...99% of which are negative am now seriously considering loosing the 75% of the fare and booking with someone else.
they did appear to get their act together in May-however this seems to of been short lived!!!
On skytrax reviews the comments are truely hiddeous!!
extreme delays
no communication
dirty planes
poor service and staff

I think they may be spreading temselves a bit thin and this can only get worse whn they start operating this route later in July......

Really am panicing ....hubby is bad flyer as it is.....so god help me!!!

Anyone any positive comments that are RECENT!!!!

[TSR2]

mariakirk

Do not worry they will not seat your children apart from you as it is against CAA recommendations. In the extremely unlikely event that they do, just refuse to take your seat and ask the cabin crew who is taking responsibility for them during the flight. That should get some action.

Personally I would pre-book the specific seats of your choice.

[BlueTui]

But what they can do is put one parent with each child or one parent with two children and the other adult in a seperate seat. They don't have to seat a whole family together. If this is important to you, I suggest you use select your seat, as others have said.

[flyguy901]

I personally wouldn't go down the route of refusing to take your seat as at the end of the day with the amount of people pre-booking there seats now a days there some times isnt really a lot cabin crew can do as many people simply say no i paid to select this seat and am not moving which they are quite right to say, yes if your children where sat on their own the crew would make sure they are with at least one adult but then the other child may be with the other adult but may not be all together. so the safest option is to pre-book your seats and then you can choose where to sit on the plane and not have the worry in the run up to your holiday.

[TSR2]

flyguy901

Saw the same problem last September. Family with two young children allocated seats on four different rows. Passengers only too willing to move seats to accommodate whilst crew looked on bemused.

[Ifield Lad]

My in-laws have just returned from their annual summer break. On the return flight they found that ther pre-boooked seats were in fact allocated across the aisle from each other. Although apparantly this is seen as being "together", they were not happy about it. CC very kindly re-seated them where space was available which happened to be by the overwing emergency exit. 2nd CC came along and asked them to pay more money as extra leg room seats cost more!!

[N707ZS]

If your husband has panic attacks I would get him to his GP who should be able to give him something to sort him out.

[davecfm56]

It takes a lot for me to actually post on here and I try only to post positive and constructive comments.

I've typed out and deleted several responses to LadyR and all I'll post is this;

If I worked for Viking, I'd find what you've posted very hurtful, it seems like you've formed your opinion on, what I bet is, what less then 0.0001% of the people carried by Viking (typically in 12 months) have said.

During a recent illness I looked up the symptoms on the internet and to my horror figured out they matched malaria. After going to the doctor I found it it was flu.

Just because a handful of people post bad things on the internet doesn't make it the rule.

[Lafyar Cokov]

Just to back up what Dave said - how many people have a fairly good, or acceptable trip (or even a really great experience) and the first thing they do is to go on a website and tell everyone about it? Very few - the only people who feel the urge to go online and type away generally (rightly or wrongly) feel they have a grievance which they wish to get off their chest or want some compensation for.

Whilst booking anything in advance is fraught with questions and worries - the fact that some people have reported an inferior service shouldn't be the only thing you base your opinion upon. Check out the reports for other airlines and I'm sure you will find similar complaints.

As someone who works in the airline industry I am often surprised at people who complain about the service - everyone seems to want a 'British Airways' (and I mean how it used to be!!) first class service for a Ryanair (without all the added on extra charges) price.

[mariakirk]

Thanks

Thanks for all the advice, I will try to pre-book seats but it costs a lot more! However, my children are more important that money!!!

[Airbus321-200]

Well i wouldn't do what TSR2 originally said and refuse to take your seats as this will just get you off on the wrong note with the cabin crew. As an sccm myself i always make sure families sit together even the ones who are the last to check-in. It is a CAA recommendation but as we all know recommendations dont mean much.

If you dont want to pay £10 each then just turn up 3/4hrs before and be the first to check in. Keeping kids entertained in the airport for that long is hard so i'd pay the money! have a good holiday!

[mariakirk]

Thanks Airbus. I will find the money from somewhere. Being a sccm you must see a lot of nervous passengers. How are the crew with nervous passengers? and have you ever had anyone with a panic attack? Just wondering how I can help my husband with this! I want to eliviate the panic as much as possible. I have heard that Bach Rescue Remedy is very good, but he seems convinced that he is going to be sick, dizzy and unwell which is a massive shame as he has been looking forward to this holiday.