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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If y'all want to sit together, pay for your seats next to each other. [/quote]

We do.  But flights get cancelled and you get rebooked with hours to spare and don’t always get to pick your seats.  Have some sympathy.

It happened to me a few months ago.  Flight was canceled.  Just canceled.  I booked another flight on another airline with less than 8 hours notice so we could make our vacation.  No seats to choose from. Plus since I bought this those tickets at that last minute it was a gazillion dollars.

Luckily a really nice gate agent helped me - but you have no idea.

It was very stressful and you have no idea why people so t have seats together.  Might no be their fault.[/quote]

This! Obviously I book my seat next toy young child's when I book a flight-- it matters to me so I do it. When we get separated it's always due to some problem out of my control. I always ask the airline to help first (usually the problem is due to their error anyway) but sometimes yes I'm asking someone to move a row or two. I always try to find someone for whom the move is actually an upgrade or at least not a downgrade. [b]Still some people push back and are angry even at being asked.[/b][/quote]

As they should be. It’s rude and entitling to ask people to give up their airplane seat to accommodate your family, regardless of your reason for it. You cannot expect people to not be annoyed by this.

It is not the passengers fault when your flights are canceled or whatever excuses you have. The airline needs to solve your problem, not the other passengers.

If airlines started offering people upgrades or cash to give up their seats for families, then more people would be willing to do it and the problem would be solved, everyone win-win. But instead airlines are putting the onus on the ill-located passengers to resolve, and that is what causes the animosity among passengers.[/quote]

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