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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You booked basic economy you don't get to pick seats[/quote]

OP here. I understand that part. I don't care what seats we get, I just want to make sure that our 9 year old will sit next to me or my spouse in any row on the plane. [/quote]

As an anecdote, I recently lived in Europe for about three years and traveled on over 30 short haul flights with my two elementary aged kids (mostly Lufthansa but a handful of other flights). Always booked basic economy without seat selection and never once were we separated.

[b]In general, European carriers tend to be much better about keeping families together without up charges. That being said as my kids were frequent fliers and would have managed sitting alone in a worst case scenario I was a little more comfortable not booking seats in advance and taking the slight risk of us being separated.[/b][/quote]

This. There are actually laws in the EU that make it harder for airlines to force you to buy a more expensive ticket just to sit next to your kid. Airline customers have more rights in the EU and airlines are more accommodating.

I actually would risk it because you have already paid for assigned seating for the overseas flight and I would personally feel confident that we would be able to sit together on flights within the EU based on prior experience with last minute flight changes there were they literally moved people around on the plane to make sure I could sit with my toddler.

If flying within the US I always pay for assigned seating because the US doesn't have as many protections for families flying together, and also US airline passengers can be insane on this subject and I do not want to deal with that. EU has different laws/policies and a different culture, so I don't worry about it there.[/quote]

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