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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We just flee cross-country with our three-year-old, and United chaned our seats so that DH, DD, and I were no longer sitting together.  My DD is 3 and would freak out if she wasn't with one of us on the plane. We tried to get it fixed at chec-in (having arrived at the airport early for that purpose) and they just referred us to the gate agent.  We were first on line to talk to the gate agent, and she took our info and said to wait.  I don't know what she may have done on the computer, but she waited until after all groups had boarded before trying to page the other passengers who were next to our seats, to see if they would switch. Of course by that point they had all boarded. So then she said I should just ask people to switch, leaving it to me to find a volunteer, after people had already settled into their seats, and making me one of the last people to board the plane. Luckily the flight attendant helped me find a volunteer (THANK YOU AGAIN! nice lady!!!) so DD and I were next to each other in the end, but SO stressful, and incompetently-handled by the airline and not fair to anybody involved.  Why can't they just flag seats of young kids and pit a block on moving them separately without a parent next to them?  How hard could that really be??[/quote]

I agree.  I have had my seats changed through no fault of my own, attempted to get them changed back to what they were well ahead of time, only to have the gate agent tell me that all I needed to do was ask someone to change seats with me. To the OP: do you really think it's reasonable for me to have to wait in an airport for god knows how long until there is a flight available that can accommodate us sitting next to each other just so I don't have to piss somebody off by asking them to switch seats, when it wasn't my fault in the first place? I don't think it's unreasonable to ask someone to switch - you can always say no.[/quote]

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