EVA Air Online Check In Requires Visa, so cannot Select Seat ???

[jaizan]

I'm going on a long trip to Thailand, over 100 days, with a little side trip to another country.    I don't need a visa, as I have flights to another country booked with a different airline, just before my 60 days are up.

 

However, EVA are requiring me to supply visa details in order to permit the online check in.     I have no visa.

 

However, I'm quite keen to get an aisle seat !

 

Do I:

1  Phone EVA during office hours to see if they can sort this out ?

2  Pay the £46 or so to reserve an aisle seat ?

3  Check in early, at the airport & hope I get an aisle seat ?     When I did this a few years ago, it wasn't successful, as I think too many people had checked in online.  This might be a matter of considering how many other people are defeated by the 2024 online check in process.     I guess most will not require visas & therefore should have no problem checking in. 

4 Check in online with an old visa number, then sort it out at the airport, having already bagged my seat ?

 

Or ??

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by jaizan

[Denim]

Pay the 46 pounds.

 

Eva Air flights are often full these days since BA no longer fly direct to Bangkok. When I flew last year all seats were taken. I stumped up the cash to reserve a seat just to avoid the possibility of not getting a seat at all. No point spoiling your holiday by risking getting sandwiched  between two large people.

 

If I were rich the one thing I would spend my money on every time is getting out of economy class. When you are young and strong you can take the pain of a bad seat but when you get older it is just not worth the money saved.

 

As for Eva Air , because of the overcrowding not as good as they used to be but if you want a direct flight the only other option is Thai or maybe soon BA to Gatwick. For my next trip I am considering giving up direct flights and maybe go via Singapore or the middle east.

[AlwaysThere]

3 hours ago, jaizan said:

I'm going on a long trip to Thailand, over 100 days, with a little side trip to another country.    I don't need a visa, as I have flights to another country booked with a different airline, just before my 60 days are up.

 

However, EVA are requiring me to supply visa details in order to permit the online check in.     I have no visa.

 

However, I'm quite keen to get an aisle seat !

 

Do I:

1  Phone EVA during office hours to see if they can sort this out ?

2  Pay the £46 or so to reserve an aisle seat ?

3  Check in early, at the airport & hope I get an aisle seat ?     When I did this a few years ago, it wasn't successful, as I think too many people had checked in online.  This might be a matter of considering how many other people are defeated by the 2024 online check in process.     I guess most will not require visas & therefore should have no problem checking in. 

4 Check in online with an old visa number, then sort it out at the airport, having already bagged my seat ?

 

Or ??

 

 

 

Just make them up. Do you think they verify them instantly?