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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes the airlines make it very hard, you book seats together and then when you show up at the airport your young child gets a seat rows away. I think this should be on the airline to deal with, [b]why do their systems even allow a young child to be seated away from the adult they are flying with? [/b]I get why this guy was annoyed and completely empathize with the parent.[/quote]

This is what I don't understand. It would be very easy for the airline systems to prioritize families with a child under the age of, say, 13. In cases where a minor is under 13, the party's seating assignments should never be broken up or changed without permission. Sometime I will see one parent stuck with two kids and the other parent's nearby seat has been changed to a far flung part of the plane. It's absurd - keep families together.

This is an easy fix for the airlines to code into their systems.

The only legit case where families are broken apart is if their original flights are delayed or canceled, so they are on a new last-minute flight. Still, it should be easy enough for the airline to find single travelers and shuffle them around to keep a family together.

The issue is all the tiers of pricing that airlines have imposed within the cabins. On some international flights, there are now 4 tiers of service + various fees people have paid for a particular seat assignment. It really cuts down on the flexibility, as people have paid for a very specific seat. [/quote]

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