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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wondering what age people think the free seating with a parent should end?  6 ?  12?  15?[/quote]

To be clear it is not "free seating" -- it is seating parents and young children together without an extra charge. Everyone involved has paid for a seat. And try to remember that it's actually a very recent development that airlines have started charging for the right to select your seat in advance (which is the only way to ensure parents are seated next to children if the airline doesn't do it's job to make this happen anyway). Airlines created this problem by changing how they price and assign seating to customers. But no one is getting a free seat.

Anyway to answer your question I think it should be tied to the rules for unaccompanied minors. In the US most airlines will designate a child under age 12 as an "unaccompanied minor" in need of a special ticket if they fly alone. If an airline is saying that a child this age needs a special ticket (and special procedures) to fly without a parent then the airline should be able to guarantee that an "accompanied" minor is seated next to their parent or guardian.

This makes sense because unaccompanied minors require special attention and services from boarding and flight crew due to their age (thus the need for the special ticket). This is an obvious acknowledgment that an accompanied minor is gettinght that special attention and service from their parent or guardian. So airlines should of course enable parents to perform those services by ensuring that they are seated next to the child in question.

This is just common sense.

Also I personally would not have an issue either paying extra for a kid 12+ in order to sit together or just letting the kid sit alone -- most kids that age would be fine. When you try to apply that logic to a younger child it really falls apart though. Obviously an 8 year old is more okay than an infant but it's a matter of degrees.[/quote]

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