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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes the airlines make it very hard, you book seats together and then when you show up at the airport your young child gets a seat rows away. I think this should be on the airline to deal with, why do their systems even allow a young child to be seated away from the adult they are flying with? I get why this guy was annoyed and completely empathize with the parent.[/quote]

This has happened to us when we have been required to book on the US carrier b/c of USG rules and the flight is a code share. It can be really difficult to select seats.

That said - two things - 1) I don't think this guy is wrong. The airlines have the ability to save the bulkhead for families with very young kids. In fact, they used to do just that! Our regulatory agencies  and we as passengers have allowed them to monetize every single piece of air travel. 2) Congress has actually tried to address families being seated together - the airlines came up with basic economy in response to being required to seat families together.[/quote]

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