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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a family books together, they are on one file in the system. I find it hard to believe that an airline would break up a family if all reservations where made together AND seat assignments were made as well.

I've only been broken up one time and that was due to we had made the reservation initially, then added another reservation for more people. Same person called, but didn't know to make sure to add to the existing reservation, rather than start a new one. The system did not register us as flying together. So when a change happened with the plane, we were separated. [/quote]

Not necessarily.  I’ve sometimes broken our family of 4 into 2 reservations if I don’t have enough points for all of us.  In that case, I put DH and DD in a middle and window seat, respectively, and DS and myself in another row, also window and middle seats.  I’ve always chosen seats in advance.  The only time it’s been an issue was when our original flight was delayed and we missed our connection.  In that case, the rebooked SFO-IAD flight was completely (or almost completely) booked and the gate agent tried to put us in 4 middle seats.  I told him my children were 6 months and 2 years old and I had brought car seats on board for both (I had purchased 4 seats total, including one for the baby).  Because car seats are required to be in window seats, the kids received window seats and DH and I each sat in a middle seat next to each child.[/quote]

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