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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't pay to book seats next to your kids or book so late that seats together aren't available, you get what you get.  If you can't sit apart from your kids, take another flight!  For goodness sake, do not get on a plane knowing you do not have seats together and then expect people who did plan ahead to change seats to accommodate you.  Just no.[/quote]

I mean sometimes you book seats together and then when you go to check in, they've moved you around.  One time they upgraded my spouse and wouldn't un upgrade him, which threw off our seats.[/quote]

This should be handled by asking the gate agent for help — long before boarding starts. And all the major airlines do have gate agents at the gate well before time to board.[/quote]

You can ask, but they won’t help you. This happened to us when my son was 2 yo (they changed plane type & scrambled our seats). I called, and they said ask at check in. I did, and that agent said ask the gate agent. I did, and they told me to ask the flight attendant, who told me I could ask a passenger if they’d be willing to switch. My kid was TWO. That’s why people ask you to change seats. [/quote] It’s almost like we need some sort of regulation that requires airlines to seat children under x age with their adult companions. I wonder if that is possible. [/quote]

As long as, along with that, is a regulation prohibiting parents from booking unassigned seats, or selecting seats that aren't together at the time of purchase, I'm all for it.  If that means they have to select a more expensive fare class, so be it.

I would absolutely switch seats with a parent whose flight plans were changed by the airline and isn't sitting next to their kid.  That isn't their fault, and while I wouldn't be happy about it, it's the right thing to do.  But I am not interested, at all, in switching seats so that someone who could have selected seats together at a greater cost, or taken a different flight, can sit with their kid.  That's a conscious choice, and it's trying to take advantage of me.  I also reject the suggestion that parents should be able to get something for free (seat selection) that the rest of us have to pay for simply because they have kids.

The problem is, there's no way to tell the difference - which family is the victim of an unfortunate circumstance, and which is trying to get over.

I think a *lot* of people feel this way, and if there was some assurance that you're switching because of an unavoidable circumstance, most people would be OK with it.  Some won't of course, but they're terrible people anyway.  [/quote]

Parents and children should be a unit and be seated together, period.  They may not get to select the best seats early, but they should be placed together as one.[/quote]

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