Emirates: Purchase up to 3 Empty Adjoining Seats on Your Flight from $70.26 to $210.78 Per Seat @ Emirates.com

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Customers flying Economy Class via Dubai carrier Emirates can now purchase up to three empty adjoining seats on their flight to accord them extra space.

These seats will be offered to all Economy Class customers holding a confirmed booking. Customers will not be able to pre-book empty seats, as these are subject to availability.

Empty seats will only be offered for purchase at the airport check-in counter prior to flight departure, and costs range from Dhs200 to Dhs600 (US$55-US$165) (AUD$70.26 to AUD$210.78) per empty seat, plus applicable taxes depending on the flight sector.

I personally am too cheap to pay this, but I suspect for a long haul flight, paying even an extra $200 might be very, very tempting…

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  ca6leguy on 01/03/2021 - 17:37

  +28

  Flight are empty anyway and the seats willl be empty if you don’t purchase them.

  • 

    TomGum on 01/03/2021 - 17:40

    +2

    Yeh I don’t get this deal. Pointless.

  • 

    ash2000 on 01/03/2021 - 17:48

    Very true, but the bigger question is who is going overseas at the moment anyway?

    If you meet one of the very few exceptions to leave the country you'll almost certainly not get back anytime soon.

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    beatthatflight on 01/03/2021 - 17:51

    It's only at the counter, so at least you can get an idea of how full the flight is first.

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  chrism238 on 01/03/2021 - 17:42

  … to afford them extra space.

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  runamuck on 01/03/2021 - 17:42

  +2

  They think of anything to squeeze more $ from u even though they know that the seats will probably be empty.

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    freefall101 on 01/03/2021 - 18:18

    +3

    It's (sort of) game theory. The ones who pay for it are absolutely sure to get empty seats. The more people who pay for it, the more likely those who don't pay for it will get unlucky and have a person somewhere near them, so it can become the smart move to pay for it.

    Unless, of course, there's so few people on the flight that it doesn't matter anyway. Then they could pull the Tiger airlines trick, just stick them together to annoy them so they'll pay it next time (Tiger used to split up people who booked their seats at the same time but didn't use seat selection, despite that they probably didn't need to).

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  alvian on 01/03/2021 - 17:54

  +2

  If only you get extra meals for the empty seats purchased…

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  hurr1cane on 01/03/2021 - 18:01

  -5

  How to get COVID TEST done and result on spot

  No use as need of negative result

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  easternculture on 01/03/2021 - 18:24

  +5

  Thanks OP.
  Bought 10 rows

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  bazza1980 on 01/03/2021 - 19:42

  Flights coming into Australia have 30-50 passengers max per plane due to caps.
  Flights leaving Australia would have similar numbers given the majority of Australian's aren't allowed to travel overseas.

  The planes Emirates currently operate to Australia have min 300 seats, so why is there a need to purchase seats adjoining yours when the flights are at about 10% capacity???

  • 

    brongz on 01/03/2021 - 22:33

    Because they will put you all together at the back aisle and leave the front rows empty

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      easternculture on 01/03/2021 - 22:37

      Move seats just before plane takes off after everyone is seated . Thats what i do

  • 

    odysseus on 02/03/2021 - 00:17

    +2

    This is a worldwide thing so applies to bookings elsewhere not just here. Plus even for the few Australians travelling they'll likely be going elsewhere than Dubai, so e.g. applies on the Dubai-Paris leg where there are no such caps.

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  marketingpolice on 01/03/2021 - 21:08

  +2

  Confused aren't they suppose to be leaving space between people who did not book together ala social distancing?

  • 

    brongz on 01/03/2021 - 22:34

    When it’s become the new rules we all have to get vaccinated before buy ticket

  • 

    bmerigan on 01/03/2021 - 23:02

    That's a good point.

    In normal times I know people who do this and thoroughly recommend it.

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  Gaz1 on 02/03/2021 - 16:19

  I can imagine the hassles when some people try to move into the spare seats that other people have paid for….

  Mind you this isn't new - Airasia use to offer this sort of thing via optiontown many years ago.