Jetstar- how they allocate seats?

[Sprucegoose]

Just wondering if you are flying Jetstar international & don't choose to pay to choose your own seats, how & when they are allocated?

If you do choose to pay to select your seat, can you see where others have been allocated to sit prior to the flight & move if you want to?

if you don't pay & hate the seats allocated to you can you complain & they will change them for you at checkin?

theres a sale on at present,have you seen that?

 

[pat25d]

I'm sorry but this seems like the worst plan for a holiday... Why not go somewhere in Australia where at least the medical issue won't be as bad.

Broome, Cairns, Margaret River etc.

 

[Esilef]

I'm sorry but this seems like the worst plan for a holiday... Why not go somewhere in Australia where at least the medical issue won't be as bad.

Broome, Cairns, Margaret River etc.

simply as we have all spent so much on the airfares. I love traveling in Australia. No where in the world beats the Great Barrier Reef. I have always wanted to go to port DouglasDouglas

 

[Esilef]

Based on the feedback here. I have now got travel insurrance for hubby which covers his pre existing medical condition. It was only $240 which is worth it if he needs to go to hospital in the US.

 

[serfty]

Just wondering if you are flying Jetstar international & don't choose to pay to choose your own seats, how & when they are allocated?
...

In direect answer to this query, there is quite a godd post here:

IME, just before the 48 hour mark, Jetstar automatically allocates seats to every passenger on a flight, whom has not already purchased a preselected a seat.

Thus at T-48, when WCI “officially” opens, the number of seats that are not filled will match the number of seats left for sale on that flight. So an empty seat (at less then T-48) will remain empty unless - 1) Jetstar sells another ticket, and said passenger selects that empty seat, 2) Another passenger changes (or is changed at the airport/onboard) from their seat allocation to that seat, 3) A standby passenger gets on that flight at the airport. (Beware that on certain routes/times, there is heavy demand for standby (i.e. staff) seating, so “empty middle seat only” rows are more likely to fill on those flights.)

If you WCI for your return flight at the same time, and it is more than 48 hours prior to that flight, the system will not have pre-allocated a seat to every passenger on the aircraft yet, so only those passengers who have pre-purchased a seat allocation, and all premium seats (i.e. upfront & exits rows, if you didn't pre-purchase either option) will be blocked out, giving you a whole lot more choice of where to sit. (But obviously this seat map will not be indicative of what seats are likely to be filled or remain empty after the T-48 system allocation. However, generally the system allocation does this fairly methodically from the front to the back, so "empty middle seats only” rows toward the rear, are more likely to remain empty than those at the front, if a flight is not fully loaded.)

Jetstar uses front and rear boarding/disembarkation at most domestic ports, but often the last flight into an airport of a night (i.e. when the aircraft is not going to turn around and fly out again until the following day) will be forward door disembarkation only. (So if you select a seat at the rear of the cabin, you will be last off the aircraft.)

I do note you have already posted that thread, in reality little has changed since then.

 

[Esilef]

So based on this our orignal plan to book seats in the back part of the aircraft towards the back would give us the best possible chance of getting a spare seat next my hubby.

I will be continuing to check every so often to ensure that the seats already allocated are not next to hubby and will do so up to right before we depart especially after the T-48 seat allocation has occured.

If I had know hubby would be still so sick, I would not have booked this trip!!!!

 

[blu]

I paid the additional fee for forward seats, 1D 1F and later rang the service centre to change the 1D (aisle) to 1E (middle).
The CSO informed me it would cost another seat selection fee if I wish to change my allocated seat (apparently you only get one pick?).

 

[Esilef]

I have already changed the seats quiet a few times. I have not been charged for making these moves but all have been regular econcomy seats not prime ones...... (heres hoping I dont have extra charges on my credit card from Jetstar).

At the moment we are sitting in row 50 as there is no one else sitting near us. Seems people book the front rows, then like the window seats and then start booking the middle at the front and the middle at the back. leaving spare seats 3/4 of the way down the aircraft.