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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I’m sure it’s rare, but that it happens. [/quote]

yes. when your flight gets cancelled and they automatically re-book you, you don't get seated together. We had 3 flights changed when we were trying to get home after traveling over the holidays when the Omicron surge was causing 1,000s of flight cancellations. We had paid for premium seats, premium times, paid to sit together, and it was still a mess (which OF COURSE I understand, the airlines were dealing with massive staff shortages). [/quote]

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