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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's absolutely abominable that airlines are allowed to do this. Those of you who think it's okay are like the frog in the pot of boiling water.[/quote]

Agree. It’s not a “premium service” to sit next to your child. FFS! [/quote]

Sitting with travel companions didn’t use to be premium, but it is now. Parents aren’t more important than other travelers who also would like to sit with their travel companions. Parents just expect to be catered to. [/quote]

The people being catered to in this scenario are not parents. It's children, who are a special category of passenger and require extra assistance. Enabling a parent to sit next to a young child is not "catering" to the parent. It's accommodating the child and ensuring they will be taken care of on the flight.

Getting to sit next to your child on a plane is not some special treat. It's just necessary in order to perform basic caretaking. It makes the flight easier on other passengers and on the flight crew. Requiring parents to pay extra for the "privilege" of caring for their own kids, and treating minor passengers as no different than your 40 yr old colleague with whom you want gossip about work, is nonsensical.[/quote]

I appreciate this perspective but planes have limited seats, and other (any) passengers are allowed to pay a premium to pick their seat. So if a family with kids books basic fares but expects premium-fare passengers (which also includes families with kids btw) to give up seats they picked and paid for, that presents a problem.

Families have the same freedom as everyone else to book premium fares and select seats together if they want.[/quote]

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