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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother works for SW, and he is on 200 flights a year. I also fly SW all the time with kids. They don't enforce age on family boarding. He told me they never give parents a hard time about this. In fact, the staff are incentivized to get families on ASAP. Otherwise, they waste boarding time trying to shuffle people to keep families together. Bring your 11YO with you when you board, or worst case do family boarding. [/quote]

Agree with this -- even when my kids were 11 or 12, gate agents often asked me to do family boarding. [/quote]

You absolutely can not count on this.  It totally depends on the gate agent and the flight.
Flights to Orlando they are generally **really** strict about limiting it to families with kids 6 and under, and only one adult per kid.  Obviously Orlando flights are the most likely to be packed with families, but I've seen them be strict on other flights too.

Just buy your kid the cheapest ticket, and pay for the early checkin option.  That will generally give your kid an A or high B, and there will be more than enough seats together at that point.[/quote]

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