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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you care about your kids don't be too cheap to pay for selection and rely in the inconvenience of strangers. 
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But that’s not the problem.  Plenty of instances of parents paying for seat assignments only to have them changed by the airline. There are countless instances of toddlers being separated by their parents. The airline typically tells the parents to ask other passengers to switch seats and you know how popular that is! [/quote]

Exactly.   I posted on the other thread about our 3 year old being seated on his own.  I noticed though and it was changed before we got to the airport. (We went through a travel agent for that trip)

Op this is good but [b]how does it help when there is an aircraft change and the flight is full?  [/b][/quote]

It doesn’t. This is a feel good/sounds good thing that changes very little. The airlines are already accommodating families when they have the space to easily do so. This is a distinction without a difference. [/quote]

OP here.  It still does help, even if there was an aircraft change and the flight is full.  The flight attendants will be trained on the importance of this rule.  The flying public will be aware of the rule (eventually).  So flight attendants will be more willing to ask people to voluntarily move.  And the flying public may be more willing to move.

(I don't know if this example will be resonate, but I kind of think of the mask mandate on airplanes during COVID.  At first, it was an airline rule.  The flight attendants tried to enforce it, and the traveling public was relatively compliant.  Once it became a federal mandate, as opposed to just an airline rule, it gave the flight attendants more confidence to enforce the rule.  And the flying public became more aware.)[/quote]
I've been nearly in tears asking people to switch seats in a delayed flight/missed connection/rebooking situation with a small child. The flight attendants wouldn't help (nor would the gate agents, ticket agents or reservations people as the flights were all full). And the passengers had selected and paid extra for their seats (as had I with my original flights). One did eventually switch but it was awful.

I believe it's wishful thinking that training and being aware of rules will change this situation. Maybe if the airlines offered incentives to people to switch. But that would cost them money so unlikely.[/quote]

The incentive just has to be less than the fine.

If an airlines faces $1,000,000 fine for a child under two being separated from their parent, $750,0000 for under five, $250,000 for under ten, it makes a lot of financial sense to offer another passenger a business class seat on a later flight.

Again, you’ve never seen this happen on European flights. Why do you think that is?[/quote]

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