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Tips for Pre-booking Your Airplane Seat
For frequent flyers, selecting the ideal seat on an airplane is a personal quest. Some prefer the window for cloud-gazing, while others opt for aisle seats for convenience. Then there are those who seek out the emergency exit rows for extra legroom.
However, not everyone knows the secrets of pre-booking airplane seats. Today, let's explore 2 super simple methods with Mytour to help you secure the perfect spot!
Method 1: Purchasing Seats During Flight Booking
During the online flight booking process, can you select your seat in advance? The answer is yes. The advantage of this is that you can easily reserve the seat you desire right when booking your flight ticket.
However, depending on the policies of each airline, there may be different charges for selecting preferred seats on the flight. Specifically:
Vietnam Airlines
With the national airline Vietnam Airlines, if until early 2019 they did not allow passengers to purchase seats in advance on the airplane. But now, the airline has officially started selling seats during flight booking. Especially, the 'big player' knows how to please its customers by offering complimentary seating for 4/5 of its seat categories on the airplane.
- Business class seats: complimentary
- Premium economy seats: complimentary
- Flexible economy seats: complimentary
- Standard economy seats: complimentary
- Economy saver seats, fees apply starting from 30,000VND/seat/ domestic segment and 115,000VND/seat/ international segment.
>> Further reading: differences between seat classes, Vietnam Airlines ticket classes
Seating arrangements of Vietnam Airlines
Vietjet Air
With the budget airline Vietjet Air, pre-booking seats before flying is categorized into 4 types: front row seats, seats near emergency exits, front seats, and regular seats. The prices for purchasing and selecting seats in advance vary depending on each seat type, such as:
- Front row seats starting from: 90,000VND - 110,000VND/seat
- Seats near emergency exits starting from: 90,000VND/seat
- Front seats starting from: 40,000VND/seat
- Regular seats starting from: 30,000VND/seat
Additionally, starting from 01/09/2019, Vietjet announced changes to the seat selection fees for international flights. Be sure to regularly check for updates on the latest news to get the most accurate prices when booking your flight tickets.
>> More information: differences between seat classes, Vietjet Air ticket classes
Seating arrangements of Vietjet Air
Jetstar Pacific
The price for selecting seats in advance on Jetstar Pacific flights seems to be slightly higher than Vietjet, with 3 specific seat categories: front seats (front section of the plane), regular seats, and seats with extra legroom. The specific costs are as follows:
- Seats with extra legroom starting from: 110,000VND/seat
- Front seats starting from: 90,000VND/seat
- Regular seats starting from: 40,000VND/seat
>> More information: differences between seat classes, Jetstar Pacific ticket classes
Bamboo Airways
Even the newest player like Bamboo Airways cannot be absent from this smart competition, by allowing customers to purchase seats in advance on their flights at incredibly attractive prices, specifically:
- Seats with extra legroom starting from: 44,000VND/seat
- Seats near emergency exits starting from: 90,000VND/seat
- Standard seats starting from: 33,000VND/seat
>> More information: differences between seat classes, Bamboo Airways ticket classes
Seating arrangements of Bamboo Airways
Don't forget a small note that if you have decided to choose seats in advance on the airplane, then buy that seat during the ticket booking process. Because the price will be fixed according to the Mytour fee listed above.
However, you can still purchase seats in advance within 24 hours of the flight departure, but at this time, the price will slightly increase depending on the regulations of each airline.
Method 2: Selecting seats during online check-in
In addition to purchasing seats in advance on the airplane, all 4 domestic airlines Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Jetstar Pacific, and Bamboo Airways have another extremely attractive option, allowing you to still reserve seats on the airplane in advance without spending a dime.
That's Online Check-in - the method to assist with procedures right on the airlines' websites at home, without having to queue at the airport check-in counter.
In addition to saving time and effort, when completing online procedures like this, you can select seats on the airplane for free. However, this method has some disadvantages such as:
- You can only check in online within 24 hours before the flight.
- At this time, the number of available seats to select on the airplane is very limited.
- If you have checked baggage, you still need to go to the check-in counter to check in your baggage.
- If your original flight time is changed (flight delay), you will need to check in online again from the beginning.
Online Check-in Steps for 4 domestic airlines
How to Reserve Window Seats on the Airplane
How to purchase window seats on the airplane? Surely, it's a question for many passengers who enjoy gazing at clouds or snapping Instagram-worthy shots. As mentioned above, to select seats on the airplane, especially window seats, we have 2 ways to fulfill our desire:
- Firstly, purchase seats in advance during flight booking with costs depending on the regulations of each airline.
- Secondly, check in online, select window seats for free 24 hours before the flight.
Note for those who love sitting by the window when flying, window seats are marked: A,F. If you want to choose these prime spots, during seat selection, simply click on these categories.
Window Seats on the Airplane
Above are the ways to select seats on the airplane in general as well as reserve window seats on the airplane in particular. Hopefully, this useful information can somewhat help satisfy your preferences and provide you with more experience when traveling through the clouds.
Don't forget to visit the airline ticket booking page or call the hotline 1900 2083 of Mytour to seize the opportunity to hunt for cheap flight tickets every day and get answers to any questions related to ticket purchase, luggage, selecting seats in advance, flight information changes, etc.
Author: Daisy Ng
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