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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of this could be solved if airlines simply flipped the narrative on pricing tiers.  Instead of "paying extra to sit together", make that the baseline price - and offer a discount for agreeing to accept whatever leftover seats are available after everyone else has booked.  Families with young children may not be eligible for this discount, that's ok.

Getting separated when an airline rebooks is harder.  It's easy to say that they should just put all families together.  But if they are being added to an existing flight that is a nearly full, there may not be a lot of good options.  Of course they "shouldn't" rebook like that, but reality is that flight schedules change all the time for various reasons.[/quote]

They do have this.  You do not get your seat until you check in at the gate.  My college age son just flew this way.  It was a very cheap fare.  Luckily it was not a full flight and they sat together but they were prepared to take random middle seats.[/quote]

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