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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I fly with our 2 kids, and we always pay to get our seat assignment in advance.  We always get 1 row of 3 seats and the next aisle seat.  Once DH had to give up his seat next to our family for a parent with a child.  We agreed because we felt bad for the kid, but I don't think it is right for these parents to expect other passengers to give up their seats.  Would it be fair for a family that paid to be together be separated so a parent ( too cheap to pay a few dollars to get advanced seat assignment) may sit with his/her child?  At the very least, if these parents want to change seat, they should reimburse the inconvenienced passenger for the amount that the latter paid to get that seat.  If a family worries about being separated, just pay up!  It is stressful enough to fly with kids, you do not need that added worry about whether you'll seat together.  Just my 2 cents, and I apologized in advance if my post offends anyone.
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I always try to get seats together, and I would pay for them (I have not yet encountered this to be an option on any flight I have been on to guarantee seats together).  However, the last time we flew we had to make some changes to our flight plans a few weeks before the flight.  We could not get seats together.  I called the airline many times over those weeks, but there was nothing they could do, and it was the only good flight option for us.  So yes, I was that annoying person trying to get people to switch seats with me.  But I apologized to and thanked a lot the person who switched and offered to buy them a drink (which they declined).

[b]Not everyone who does not have seats together was too cheap or didn't try. [/b] I always try, but sometimes they just aren't available.  And these days there are less and less flights to choose from, especially if you are trying to fly somewhere direct or cross country.  [/quote]

Of course. Sometimes flights get canceled, or the airline switches planes, with a different sitting configuration. In both cases, your advance planning would go out the window as the airline reassigns your seats.[/quote]

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