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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I admit I don't check seating plans before buying my tickets-- it's too hard already to find schedules/fares that work. I don't think it make me entitled to think that a kid under 6 should be able to sit with a parent.

I think that's common sense and if the airline is going to charge me full fare for the ticket I think they have an obligation to make sure one parent can sit with that child, even if it means bumping someone else (although that someone else certainly may be entitled to a refund of seat charges, or a free drink or something).[/quote]

I don't understand how you can think that someone who did take the time to look up the seating arrangement and book a flight to sit in a particular seat should give up their seat for you because you didn't want to bother to look up the seating arrangement.

We've given up our seats twice now on long flights for families who pulled the same crap that you do in not booking seats together. My assumption had been that the airlines did this but BOTH families openly shared that they had booked middle seats and we're relieved that people were willing to move around for them. These were not incidents where the airline had changed their reserved seats or overbooked. This makes me so mad because we would have liked to sit together as a family for 6 hours. We did forego a less expensive flight to be able to sit together but wrongly assumed that a poor family had just been separated by the airline so we gave up one of our seats.

Now that I know this is what people are doing I will not assume that it was an airline mistake and I'm not moving for you. [/quote]

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