EMIRATES now charging for SEATS

[paperboy]

i must have been lucky, i booked my flight back in August for next june and picked my seats with no charge,
Lucky me hahahahahha

[scottish-guy]

OK here's the update:

As I said, the suggestion from Emirates was that if you didn't want to pay for preferred seating then you could wait until online check in opened 48hrs before departure and reserve specific seats free of additional charge.

So, as of last night, that's what I've done.

All I wanted was to be sure I got an aisle seat, and Im glad to report there were plenty of those.

So as it turned out there was no need to pay them an additional £80 after all - something others may want to bear in mind

[gerefan2]

Are you coming back to Thailand then?

[scottish-guy]

No - I fear MiniMee would disappear up his own arse in a puff of smoke were I to visit Thailand twice in 6 months.

I'm going to Vietnam where I have an apartment and a long term BF.

I hope that's acceptable to MM - or am I required to post photographic evidence of that as well?

[scottish-guy]

Oh well - I'm grounded due to family illness