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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes, I am serious. I don't know their circumstances, and since I am neither majician or mind reader, i will not switch my seat and sit in the middle. I find that parents who feel they are entitled to my pre-planned seat gross. BTW--I also have a child under the age of seven. As a family we travel extensively. The kid has travelled internationally and domestically. I have yet to ask someone to switch their seats. Perhaps the reason why is because I pre-planned and did not feel entitled to another's seat. [/quote]

+100 Same here. We travel extensively too, see people trying to switch all the time, and its never happened to us once. We were talking with family members who travel with kids as much as we do on the same airlines and they also never experienced this. We preplan, only choose flights where we can get the seats we want, and if a flight gets cancelled we wait for one where one of can sit with the kids. I really believe that the majority of these switchers are the entitled parents who take the earlier flight, go for the better fare, airport, or time, don't bother to check seat availability and overall just feel entitled that someone else will accomodate them. [/quote]

Pre planning is no guarantee that you will all sit together. For my last trip, I booked our flights seven months in advance, had assigned seats, and checked on our reservations every few weeks or so.  Day before our trip, the airline moved our seats so that we were all over the plane.  All of my kids, age 2 to 7, were several rows away from me.  Fortunately there were many nice people on the plane because we had to do lots of rearranging to get our seats close together.  [/quote]

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