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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I fly later this week to the UK with my 14-year-old.  The airline has already changed our flights twice and we don't go to the airport until Friday.  In addition to leaving 3 hours earlier on Friday, we are no longer sitting together on the flight back, since our original flight, with seats together that we paid for, is cancelled and no longer on the schedule.  We are now in middle seats in different rows.  The 14-year-old can obviously fly solo so we will cope, but if she were younger, I would be even more unhappy.

Airlines separated families prior to the pandemic (I have had it happen with aircraft changes and for no apparent reason, all times when we had assigned seats well in advance) and with the instability of flight schedules I bet it happens even more now.  While I completely agree that the blame for this falls on the airlines, Mr/Ms Bulkhead and the columnist might consider that this problem is often not the result of "poor planning".  [/quote]

+1 this happened to us this way once - our flight with pre-paid seats together got canceled and they rebooked us with seats apart.  My kids were little (5 and 2)and it was a non-starter to sit apart.  They were able to resolve it at the gate before we got on the plane but we could have been in the position of asking ppl to move.

That said, I think it's common sense that you ask the people to move who have the least incentive to say no.  If you can offer them an equally good seat, not a downgrade, they will almost always say yes.[/quote]

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