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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]NP. Look, I have traveled EXTENSIVELY and this sort of thing (airlines switching planes, etc) happens all of the time. [/quote]

DH travels extensively for work. I travel moderately for work, more lately. We take our kids on trips involving 4-6 hour flights 3-4 times a year. We fly internationally about every other year. This never happens to us. Even when a plane is switched, we have NEVER been re-assigned to all middle seats. At least one adult was next to the children. When we fly solo and planes change, we have been switched from one aisle to another aisle but never to a middle seat.

I've wondered about this because we do see families trying to switch on planes all the time. I think you just WANT people to think it was an airline screw up not your own choice with an assumption that you'll just switch around with other people. [/quote]
I'll add another family of 5 traveling 4 times a year together for more than ten years and we've NEVER been split apart to all middle seats after we've purchased our seats. [/quote]

Well, that makes three or possibly four different families that travel and have not been all split up with preplanning.  I was the original poster who said this has never happened to her family.  [b]I just dont think the airlines would separate small children from both parents. [/b] [/quote]

Lucky all of you -- count your blessings.  Single parent here.  On our last two R/Ts on United, traveling with my four-year-old, the airline made aircraft changes and moved our seats.  They had to -- at Christmas, if I remember correctly, the plane had one less row.  So my daughter, who was booked into a window seat, was moved to an available middle seat about ten rows ahead of us.  They kept me in the middle seat I had originally booked to be next to her.  If I had booked us on the other side of the plane, or into an aisle and middle seat, we would have been undisturbed.  And of course if we'd been traveling with another adult we still would have had two seats together, so it would be less important where the third ended up.  But we had two middle seats, ten rows apart.  And trust me, Christmas is an awesome season to try to get that problem fixed ahead of time ... I did get it fixed, when I discovered the problem when I went online to check-in and then called the airline, but I will never get that two hours of my life back.

Not everyone looks like your family, and just because things haven't happened to you doesn't mean they can't happen to others.

Off to double-check our reservation for later this month ... as if it will make a difference should the airline decide to screw us up yet again.[/quote]

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