{"id":296262,"date":"2025-10-05T06:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/virgin-australia-bid-empty-seat\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T06:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:42:26","slug":"virgin-australia-wants-to-let-you-bid-to-have-an-empty-seat-next-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=296262","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia Wants To Let You Bid To Have An Empty Seat Next To You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The experience onboard your next <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255704\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/virgin-australia\/\"  >Virgin Australia<\/a><\/span> flight could feel a bit more roomy, with the airline announcing this week that on select domestic and international services, you can bid for &#8216;neighbor-free seating&#8217;. The initiative will allow economy guests to pay for extra comfort on their journey, by ensuring that there is no one seated next door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Australia&#8217;s Clever New Perk for Economy Passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,273,6700,651,937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-australia","category-seat-selection","category-seats","category-virgin-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296263,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296262\/revisions\/296263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}