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[quote=Anonymous]Pressure Congress to pass a bill limiting what airlines can do in terms of charging for seating AND moving around families with  kids under a certain age after seat assignments have been made.

There are parents out there who book the cheapest tickets that warn you families won’t be sat together, with the thought that someone will move for them, because “who’d want to sit next to my 3 year old hahahah!”   Those folks should be SOL and/or not permitted to even buy those cheaper tickets.

But there are families out there who do buy tickets and pay for  seating so they can sit together and are then are moved around by the airline.  There the airline has the responsibility to make sure they are seated together and compensate those who have also paid and have to move.

The story in the article has me more sympathetic to the traveler who refused to move, as that is a premium seat and the airlines/parents should have shuffled down the aisle to a row of crappier seats.

But yea, real culprit is the airlines.   Contact your representative and The Department of Transportation to have them strong arm airlines.  [/quote]

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