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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We fly southwest to avoid this and also to avoid people who are going to freak out about being asked to accommodate a family with young kids sitting together. We also really like their "bags fly free" policy. When we fly to Europe we use airlines that seat families together. I think the EU actually requires this so flying within Europe you don't have to worry.

I wish people realized that this is about the airline screwing people and being dishonest in pricing, not people being "narcs." It used to be that seat selection was baked into the price along with checked bags and other *totally normal* aspects of flying. Doing a seat price and then nickel and diming you for everything else is a way to obscure the cost of flying so that they can charge more while claiming in advertising that they charge less. It's BS. Americans should demand better transparency in pricing and not accept policies like this that actually make flying worse for everyone.

The insane thing to me is that even if you pay to select your seat, if the flight is canceled and you wind up on another flight they don't even refund your fee for the seat you never even used. So a family of four could spend an extra $400 for seats together and then wind up having to beg people to move so they could sit with their little kids anyway. That's deranged![/quote]

We like Southwest too but there are many places they don’t fly, like most other countries including European ones. [/quote]

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