on-line check in

If I check in on-line, are my chosen seats then guaranteed? [?]

Unfortunately not. They can still be re-assigned at the airport but I can say it's never happened to me unless I requested a change.

Jilly

[preiffer]

As guaranteed as they can be.

Obviously, should something go wrong, or they need to change allocations to accomodate a family with babies etc, then it could change - but that's no different to if you'd physically checked in at the counter.

Those circumstances aside, essentially yes. (Or no less guaranteed than if you'd checked-in in person.)

Quick question if I may while this subject is around.

If I check in online, do I need to print anything out? I'm likely to be checking in online later this year, but won't have access to a printer I don't think. Do I print my boarding pass or get it at the fast bag drop?

Thanks,

Mark

You get your boarding pass at the bag drop
You need either an eticket or online check in receipt as far as I recall..

No you dont need to print anything else out - last time they just checked my existing ticket and that was that - and as has been said - its not a guarantee of seats but its as close as you are gonna get!!

If you chose seats now for a flight in June for example, when online check-in becomes available for that flight can anyone choose your seats although you've had them selected since booking?

^ If those seats are still held for you in your booking then they wont appear on the seat map for anyone else to take unless there are operational circumstances which mean they have become released.

Once you've checked into your seats it's highly unlikely but not impossible that your seats will be moved. You almost certainly wont be split up from your party, more like just relocated to another part of the cabin. But like i said it is very rare that your seats are reassigned once you've checked into them.

Originally posted by phil_2405
If you chose seats now for a flight in June for example, when online check-in becomes available for that flight can anyone choose your seats although you've had them selected since booking?

You can find that when you come to do OLCI that the seats have moved.

I believe the best thing to do s to keep looking at the seat map on VS on a failry regular basis and then get more regular the nearer to departure you get. If you see that yoru seats have been moved ( VS vcan obviously do this at any time) then at least you have the opportunity to call them or Flying club and see if you can be put back.

They will sometimes move you to accommodate families, large parties etc. As far as I am aware this happnes less in PE or UC and more in Y - I have flown a number of times in PE and always go the chosen seat

Another question (and sorry if it's been asked before). We have our seat 'allocations' for our forthcoming trip in August, but have just discovered that they have limited views (over the wing and sharing windows with other seats. We're intending to do on-line booking and whenever we've travelled with virgin in the past and done on-line check in we've just taken the seats we've pre-allocated as we've been happy with them. My question is (and sorry for the long-winded way to get to it) - when we get to book on-line will be be presented with other options for seating or will we have to take the ones which we've 'pre-booked'? I do realise these seats are not 'booked' and not guaranteed, I just want to know whether, at the time of on-line booking we are presented with other options (i.e. the other 40% of seats which are not available for pre-allocation)?

Hi Nibby,
You will be offered the seats you have already pre-booked - but at the time of OLCI you are able to select any others that have become available. ISTBC but I still think a percentage are not shown on the online seat map as these are used at check in at the airport.

This gives you the best chance of having those seats on the flights but its still not a cast iron guarantee remember.