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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd like to see some of the never-seat-swapping posters answer the question of the last PP below! 
[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 feel for you, PP.  There are a lot of selfish, nasty people in the world.[/quote]

It's actually selfish and self-absorbed to assume people have to move to meet your needs. People often pick their seats for specific reasons, they have that right and judging them for it because things aren't going your way is selfish as well.[/quote]

Would you be willing to assist a 5 year old sitting next to you in s crisis? You know, put their oxygen mask on and all that and help them evacuate?[/quote][/quote]

Not. My. Problem.[/quote]

The key here is to make sure your 5 year old isn't seated next to a sociopath like pp.[/quote]

And how does one do that?  "excuse me if you're a sociopath please switch seats with me, otherwise have a nice flight next to my kid".

One day there will be something terrible that happens to a child sitting next to a stranger and only then will the airlines ever resolve to stop this crazy nonsense.  We've already gotten reports on the news about women being felt up while they were sleeping, think about how easily molestation could happen to a child.

What if there is an issue with the air supply, the sociopath sitting next to a kid won't even think to help the child with the oxygen mask. (case in point, the previous pp)

What if the child starts choking on an airline snack?  Will the stranger next the child being paying any attention at all?

I shudder at the thought of any of this happening, but the fact is that it would not be outlandish at all. These are real things that can happen and no one knows if the stranger sitting next to a child is a sociopath or not.

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What do you think happens when kids fly as unacompanied minors?[/quote]

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