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[quote=Anonymous]Last time I flew I paid $20 for my window seat. My kids seats (middle and window) were free and my husband was the aisle behind us which was also free. My kids were 4 and 8 and this was a 7 hour flight. The night before they switched our seats - I kept my aisle but the other 3 were assigned to random middles in the aircraft. There was a $20 window I could pay for to get one of us a non-aisle seat and then hope the person in the middle seat next to me would take the aisle, or there was a row - and a seat across - for $40 each. I paid for all of us to change seats but it was so annoying!!

Years ago I had an aisle seat and got to the airport and they’d given me a middle. I waited in line at customer service and eventually got my aisle back. I got to my seat and a man was sitting in it. He asked if he could have it to be near his kids - who were in their late teens. He offered me a middle (again cross country) in a plane that was 5 across. He said that he’d gotten up very early, taken a train to the airport and had flown from Germany and now had another long flight. I said that I’d been up much of the night throwing up with morning sickness and had to pee often and was flying home from a busy conference to my toddler. At that point he left me alone…[/quote]

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