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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I need opinions on what you all would have done in this situation. My family, DH, me and DD (3) we’re flying out of Florida yesterday back to DCA. We had reserved seats all together.  Well due to the whether or maintenance (never got the true story) our plane got switched and it was a different size. We find out at checkin when we aren’t assigned seats. The lady at the counter said they gate agent would settle it for us. We make it to the gate and the gate agent tells us she will make an announcement since there are a lot of people with unassigned seats.

We sit down and wait. Well the next thing we know they are boarding. So we go back and ask for seat assignments. They had forgotten us. (Although I never heard any other names and we were sitting right there.) They get us seats but they are all over the plane. I don’t need 3 together. I would prefer one of us though with my 3 year old. The gate agent said there was nothing she could do since 75% of the plane was boarded. We were all 4 rows apart in middle seats so nothing even good to trade. The flight attendants on board were sympathetic, but all they could do was ask people to move from an aisle or window to a middle.

I have changed seats multiple times for people and when the flight attendants asked we got blank stares. So my 3 year old sat alone for take off then switched off sitting on my and my Dh’s lap until landing where she sat alone. Would you have just not gotten on the flight? I thought about it, but I had to be at work today (work weekends). [/quote]

I have a 2.5 and a 4.5 year old and if that happened for either of my kids, I would have raised hell like you couldn't even imagine.

What if your DD was seated next to a pedophile? Did the airline have someone next to your DD, watching her like a hawk including during take off and landing? Which airline would seriously take on that liability?

And what if there was an incident mid-flight? Your DD is NOT safe in your arms. In a crash, she's toast. You paid for a seat for her, and by aviation law she's supposed to have her own seat &gt; 2 years old no matter what your wishes are. Because, you know, it's not safe to have a child on your lap.

I would be refusing to get on the flight plus taking names and getting photos and videos of the whole thing. I would then be going to the news outlets with the story and all details and footage and also writing to the airline and demanding compensation for the missed flight and inconvenience. And I'd be explaining the lunacy to my boss and hoping they have enough sense to realize that I can't let my 3 year old remain unsupervised and in the company of total strangers on the other end of a plane during a flight. Holy moly.[/quote]

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