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[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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Yeah, this happened to me when flying with my 5 year old. I eventually managed to guilt the guy next to me (window seat) into swapping with my kid. But it was very, very touch and go--basically just before they locked down the cabin. DD was freaking out.

Happened again a couple of years later, but by that time I was like, "Okay, honey! Talk to you later!" And the guy sitting next to her jumped up--panic stricken--and asked to change seats with me.

What a difference a couple of years makes.[/quote]

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