Family of three - would we be seated together on a Lufthansa flight?

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I mostly do not reserve seat when booking flight with an airline having paid seat choice. When I arrive in the airport, I go to check-in counter and ask the personel for seating me where I want (not an exact point but I say the back most seats) and they mostly accept. But even if you do not do that and check-in by yourself, they mostly put the people together whose tickets bought at the same time.

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When you are checking in, they are typically accomodating - as much as they can.

  • If there are no more three seats together available, bad luck. Best strategy is to be early.
  • If you check in online, and you are early enough, you should be able to get three - again, unless many others have paid for seats, and only middle seats are remaining.
  • If your ‘family’ contains a kid under 16, I recommend to call now, and tell them that; chances are that they will assign you seats now and sit you together.
  • You can always try to call and ask for it anyway, even without a kid. Being nice and courteous typically gets you a long way.
  • Finally, you can always ask people on the plane to switch around, that normally works fine - unless you have only middle seats to offer; nobody will voluntarily move from a aisle or window to a middle seat. So if you can’t get seats together, chose three separate aisle seats; those will pretty surely be tradeable for a complete row together.

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There are no guarantees. It will all depend on how full the flight is and how many other passengers pre-reserve seats.

If you want to be sure to sit together, I recommend you pay the seat reservation fee.

If you refuse to pay the fee, your best hope will be to check in as soon as allowed by your airline (I believe Lufthansa lets you check in 24 hours before your initial flight). The longer you wait, the less likely you are to sit together.

Also, your odds are better if the tickets were booked together under a single reservation. It'll be more challenging if they were booked simultaneously but separately.

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