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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is interesting to hear that families who paid a premium to choose seats together with children got separated, as in all of my traveling, that never happened to me and my kids. I always paid the extra fee to ensure we sat together and regardless of the airline, That’s always been honored.  That said, I have definitely been on airplanes where the flight attendants walk up and down the aisle looking for people to change seats to accommodate a family with small children.  I always assumed that they did not pay the extra fee and that’s why that happened. But it looks like, from some of these responses, I might have been wrong in that assumption.[/quote]

I agree with this.  My kids are teenagers now, but I have never had a situation where we chose seats before traveling and when we got to the airport, the seats had been moved and we were split up.  Does this really happen a lot?  [/quote]

Yes, it happens and we have personally experienced that a few times on overseas or cross-country flights. It may be the airlines we fly which seem to change aircraft way too frequently so all the seat configurations get messed up. We might have started with 3 seats in a row next to a window and in the new plane it's 2 and the second kid gets randomly reassigned somewhere instead of in the aisle over. It also may be related to how some airlines may have crappier computer systems that don't prioritize keeping young kids with their parents while other airlines might do that.

When we flag down the attendant they try to help but as described on this thread in tons of pages it's tricky. I once had to leave my child with SN alone with a younger sibling on a 5 hour flight. I'm sure everyone was annoyed I was always standing nearby but really what could I do? No one agreed to switch.[/quote]

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