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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are a family of 4 and all had to sit separately.  (kids were 8 and 10)  The flight attendant tried desperately to get someone to move so my 8 yr old who was freaking out about sitting alone would be able to sit next to one of us, but no one budged!!

After the 4th announcement by the flight attendant a man moved to another seat and asked the man next to him, whom he didn't know, to move too in a kind of "come on man, let's do this" kind of way.  I'm so thankful for him.

I'll always look for other airlines before I look for Southwest again.  It's not the service, the flight attendant was so nice and really tried, but I will always opt for any airline with assigned seats from now on.

I posted this on a different thread about SW and got dogged out because of it.  I was told my child is old enough to get over it, that I was acting entitled, why should they give up their seat, etc. Typical DCUM nastiness, but I never thought that people were as nasty as they sometimes act on here in real life. I was dead wrong because that must have been some of the thoughts of the people on the plane since they wouldn't move.
 
[u]It is astounding to me that we as a society in a first world country where we pride ourselves on our civilized lifestyle and high education that we have become so selfish and arrogant that it is too inconvenient to switch seats so a crying child could sit next to their parent on a cross country 6 hour plane trip.
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I totally agree. I can't believe that this country is so anti-kid that grown men and women would not move for a child younger than nine. It's crazy. I can't even imagine this ever happening in a country like Italy or Spain. They would publicly shame any adult who wouldn't move.[/quote]

Agreed. I refused to move for two adults once, but I would never do that for a little kid.

Kind of reminds me of my metro commute.  When the train is busy, which is most times going and coming from work, I pretty much always stand, considering it good exercise.  Sometimes I feel like sitting, and then I think that an older, heavier, or disabled person might come in and I wouldnt want to take a seat from them.

But I see so many able bodied young men just plopped in their seats, staying stubbornly in their seats even when a pregnant woman is looking for a place to sit.

It's gross and disgusting.

They would definitely be SHAMED in Europe.  Made fun of and laughed at.  And thats how it should be, IMO.  Because it really is pathetic. [/quote]

Totally agree with both of you!  I've moved for families, and now I have a family.  Children need to sit with their parents. Period.  What if there is an emergency landing? What if oxygen masks are deployed? (It happens).  Do you really want your kids at the mercy of strangers at best, or abandoned at worst in such a situation?

When I was little we travelled a lot.  Once the flight attendants wanted to seat me several rows away from my mom... I was terrified.  They insisted again and again that the plane was full.  My mom sat down with me between sections of the plane where the flight attendants buckle in, and told them we would buckle in there, unless they found us seats together.  My mom would not budge to their pleas, and miraculously they found seats.   This was not an American airline, and we were flying somewhere over Asia and Europe.  The flight ended up very turbulent - stuff flying through the cabin... I never forgot that my mom fought that we could sit together.   I realize that nowadays  such a "sit in" may result  in removal from the plane... But I will find a way to sit with my kids, if I'm ever in such a situation.   [/quote]

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