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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The last two times my family wasn’t seated together it was because the airline changed the aircraft after we’d booked the tickets. 
We’d done our part and paid for seats together and the gate agent was able to move us around. 
Sometimes the outrage over “people were too cheap” just isn’t warranted. [/quote]

This also happened to us this summer. Booked seats together, and then when we checked in my 7yo was on her own away from us.[/quote]

It's happened to us too - and it doesn't change it's YOUR responsibility to pay attention to any changes to your tickets in advance of the flight to catch any plane changes, etc. You can fix these situations in the airline app or by calling the airline well in advance of arriving at the airport and checking in. We fly all the time (internationally and domestically) and make sure to check any ticketed flights regularly for changes if it's important for us to all sit together. [/quote]

Oh fck off. It's the airline's responsibility to NOT move your children into separate locations from you when you have booked together, and paid to select seats together. The airlines are screwing up on this. We had cross country flying in both directions earlier this month with a family of five, all booked together well in advance, and the airlines fcked it up on several trips, with the gate agent admitting as much. Just cause they ping my app a few hours before the flight doesn't make it my responsibility. I paid for seats together, it's their responsibility to honor that.

And regarding changing seats: I do it if I can for others, and I offer to pay in cash or buy drinks if someone does it to accommodate me.

Good for you for making sure to "check any ticketed flights regularly" like some kind of airline lackey, but fck that. The airlines stopped being decent to deal with years ago.[/quote]

Cool story. I have my personal feelings and opinions too but choose to operate as an adult within the current system which says it’s my responsibility to deal with this if it happens.

Doesn’t matter what I “feel” personally about it. You sound like a child.

Learn to read the T&C when you book your next flight, you might learn something.[/quote]

"The Airline said so" is not a compelling argument to me. It sounds like it is to you, a high conformity person.

[b]There are two ways to resist bad policy: 1. Don't participate (never fly, in this case)  2. Don't cooperate.[/b]

You are of the spineless sort who will cooperate no matter what, as long as it's official, and as long as it's in writing.[/quote]

I am a different poster, and I agree with this.  Except not in the way you think - I think it's bad policy when a fellow passenger asks me to move, so I don't cooperate.  Sounds like we are in agreement.  [/quote]

Wow, how clever. [/quote]

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