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[quote=Anonymous]The worst story I've heard was from an friend in an online forum.  She was flying with her teenage son, and her 5 year old triplets.  One of whom was blind, nonverbal, and unable to sit unsupported. He needs to fly in a carseat due to positioning issues, which means that, by law, she needed a window seat for him.  She called the airline every couple weeks to confirm that their seats were still together, but when she arrived to check in they had been split up all over the plane in middle seats.  The check in people told her to talk to the gate, and the gate told her to talk to the person on the plane, who told her to solve it herself.  Clearly an ADA violation, because the right to be seated next to a companion, and to use a special needs carseats, is absolutely protected for individuals with disabilities, but it's not like she brought her own lawyer, and at that point they'd already loaded the wheelchair into the hold, making it almost impossible to leave the airport.

On the plane she was able to find someone to trade so they got 2 seats together, where they put the teen and the child with a disability, and then 3 middle seats behind each other, so she could sit behind the other 2 5 year olds and know if they needed her (I think she told them to raise their hands).

Having said that, being 5 is not a legally protected designation, the way a disability is.  In the situation above separating the child from a caregiver was illegal, because of ADA, which doesn't apply to OP.  The mom had also done everything in her power to be able to sit together, including calling many times and noting the child's disability on the flight manifest. [/quote]

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