It's a paid for extra, rather have more leg room than check-in early!With what airline? I'm assuming you mean United since you refer to it as E+. If so, that's not an upgrade
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That scenario is very specific to United and how they allocate seats. They only give you an E+ seat because E- is full. Not many other airlines operate in this manner. It's a good idea if you're flying with United but if not then checking in earlier is usually a much better bet.
For example, on an overbooked flight when looking for someone to offload they go right down to the person who paid the lowest fare and then if there's still a tie, they go by check-in time. It's a long shot but you'd be kicking yourself if you got offloaded!
FlyBe online check in is 36hrs in advance. You can pick your seats ahead of that but it's £6 per seat per sector and your choice will be very limited anyway - the planes are small and trim sensitive so you can't just pick any seat.I'm flying with air france, I booked them through euro disney, and they arrived as an e-mail with a link to Flybe and there is a check-in button, it keeps telling me it is too soon, there's three weeks to go, so I wondered if it was within a week or two or 30 hours or whatever.
No they don't. Many consider premium economy as a separate cabin and are less willing to hand out upgrades willy nilly to their non-frequent flyers.
Usually depends on the distance of the flight, size of the aircraft (which obviously correlates to the distance) and the airline company.
European flights with budget airlines are usually 1-2 hours before, up to 30 mins before, gates open about 30 mins before departure.
Long haul flights are usually 2-3 hours.
European flights with budget airlines are usually 1-2 hours before, up to 30 mins before, gates open about 30 mins before departure.
Long haul flights are usually 2-3 hours.