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Anonymous wrote:Parents who refuse to pay for seat assignments who then expect other people to switch seats that they DID pay for suck.

The airlines create this problem. A parent should not have to pay for an upgraded seat assignment in order to sit next to a minor child. That's like arguing that when disabled people fly with a caretaker, they should be required to pay extra for seat assignment so their caretaker can assist them. Small kids are essentially disabled on airplanes -- they can't reach their tray table or their personal items under the seat in front of them, often they cannot go to the bathroom alone, they can't communicate their needs to the flight attendant, etc. Suggesting that someone in that condition should have to pay an upgrade in order to have the person who will do all that for them nearby is psychotic. Parents aren't trying to sit next to kids so they can gossip about the latest episode of Love Island. It's a necessary set up for everyone involved.

If airlines can find a way to accommodate disabled people flying to ensure they are seated with caretakers, they can do this for families who have kids under a certain age. No one should have to pay an extra $100 per leg so they can provide an infant with a bottle, keep their 2 year old entertained, hold their 5 yr olds hand when they get nervous during landing, help their 4 year old to the bathroom, etc.

But it should be on the airline to figure it out, not on passengers. If you are traveling with young kids and get seated apart, I would go to the flight crew and ask them to assist in figuring it out. Usually it can be done without moving a passengers who paid for assigned seating, because on any plane only about half of flyers do that anyway. But if someone who paid for assignment has to move, the airline can also offer to refund them the cost of that assignment and I think people should be flexible in that situation because we are talking about a basic accommodation that is really beneficial for all involved (the child, the parents, the flight crew, and other passengers).

It's like people forgot how to be human.

You are looking at this backwards. Everyone has to pay (via a specific fare class) if they want to select their seats - whether because they want to sit next to someone, they want an aisle seat, they want extra room, they want to be in the front of the plane wherever. This isn't an instance of an extra fare being levied on parents - it's that parents want a fee that everyone pays waived simply because they are traveling with kids. That is, frankly, selfish and nonsensical.

In the parlance of American Airlines, you are asking that parents and their kids get to pay for a basic economy fare class while getting the benefits of a higher fare class. That's BS, and that should be obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I will not change my seat because you want to sit next your spouse or kids. It isn't my problem you can't sit together.

I also booked special meals I picked or the flight, so get it through your stupidly thick skulls that even if we switched seats, it causes even more problems when people have pre-specified meal picks. And no, I'd never, ever in a million years give up my aisle or window seat for a worse middle seat.

Why do so many morons insist with sitting next to family members if they can't book next to each other? It's a flight. They're not going anywhere and you'll be fine for a few hours. Requesters for switching seats cause so many stupidly awkward situations and can cause even more problems when other passengers may have specific meals or bought items on shops they have to locate your seat in order to deliver to you. Just sit in your own damn seat people and shut up.

Not morons. Last minute flight for emergency, delayed flight missed connection and added last minuted to new flight, cancelled flight and added on to new flight . . .

My mom was dying. Bought ticket with just a few hours notice. Had to take 7 year old. Flight was obviously overbooked as there were no seats to choose from. So yes, I asked the flight attendant to help us sit together.

Same thing happened when my flight was cancelled due to storm. Luckily people moved so I could sit next to my kids. I’m not trying for a upgrade.

I would not have switched with you.

I paid for the seat I wanted.

These are all your problems not mine.

+1. Unless you're giving me a better seat I'm not moving. IT's not my problem to solve.

It may well become your problem when my kid has a panic attack mid flight or vomits at the end of the flight.
But yes, enjoy your precious seat.

I have noise canceling headphones. Your crotch rocket’s panic attack won’t phase me at all. Not my problem.

And it'll be great for Mommy when I start watching Game of Thrones on my iPad, and little Braylon gets a real education.

One time on the SFO > IAD red eye this old woman was watching GoT on the seat back entertainment screen next to me and kept replaying a specific violent sex scene. Such a weird choice of material to watch in front of everyone else. Almost like she reveled in it.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I will not change my seat because you want to sit next your spouse or kids. It isn't my problem you can't sit together.

I also booked special meals I picked or the flight, so get it through your stupidly thick skulls that even if we switched seats, it causes even more problems when people have pre-specified meal picks. And no, I'd never, ever in a million years give up my aisle or window seat for a worse middle seat.

Why do so many morons insist with sitting next to family members if they can't book next to each other? It's a flight. They're not going anywhere and you'll be fine for a few hours. Requesters for switching seats cause so many stupidly awkward situations and can cause even more problems when other passengers may have specific meals or bought items on shops they have to locate your seat in order to deliver to you. Just sit in your own damn seat people and shut up.

Not morons. Last minute flight for emergency, delayed flight missed connection and added last minuted to new flight, cancelled flight and added on to new flight . . .

My mom was dying. Bought ticket with just a few hours notice. Had to take 7 year old. Flight was obviously overbooked as there were no seats to choose from. So yes, I asked the flight attendant to help us sit together.

Same thing happened when my flight was cancelled due to storm. Luckily people moved so I could sit next to my kids. I’m not trying for a upgrade.

I would not have switched with you.

I paid for the seat I wanted.

These are all your problems not mine.

+1. Unless you're giving me a better seat I'm not moving. IT's not my problem to solve.

It may well become your problem when my kid has a panic attack mid flight or vomits at the end of the flight.
But yes, enjoy your precious seat.

I have noise canceling headphones. Your crotch rocket’s panic attack won’t phase me at all. Not my problem.

And it'll be great for Mommy when I start watching Game of Thrones on my iPad, and little Braylon gets a real education.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I will not change my seat because you want to sit next your spouse or kids. It isn't my problem you can't sit together.

I also booked special meals I picked or the flight, so get it through your stupidly thick skulls that even if we switched seats, it causes even more problems when people have pre-specified meal picks. And no, I'd never, ever in a million years give up my aisle or window seat for a worse middle seat.

Why do so many morons insist with sitting next to family members if they can't book next to each other? It's a flight. They're not going anywhere and you'll be fine for a few hours. Requesters for switching seats cause so many stupidly awkward situations and can cause even more problems when other passengers may have specific meals or bought items on shops they have to locate your seat in order to deliver to you. Just sit in your own damn seat people and shut up.

Not morons. Last minute flight for emergency, delayed flight missed connection and added last minuted to new flight, cancelled flight and added on to new flight . . .

My mom was dying. Bought ticket with just a few hours notice. Had to take 7 year old. Flight was obviously overbooked as there were no seats to choose from. So yes, I asked the flight attendant to help us sit together.

Same thing happened when my flight was cancelled due to storm. Luckily people moved so I could sit next to my kids. I’m not trying for a upgrade.

I would not have switched with you.

I paid for the seat I wanted.

These are all your problems not mine.

+1. Unless you're giving me a better seat I'm not moving. IT's not my problem to solve.

It may well become your problem when my kid has a panic attack mid flight or vomits at the end of the flight.
But yes, enjoy your precious seat.

I have noise canceling headphones. Your crotch rocket’s panic attack won’t phase me at all. Not my problem.

And it'll be great for Mommy when I start watching Game of Thrones on my iPad, and little Braylon gets a real education.

On my way home from asia a few years ago I watched a movie with billy from the street, and it was pretty graphically gay lol. I did not realize. But the cabin was completely dark and theres me, watching a gay 4some on the screen that I'm sure EVERYONE could see. I highly recommend that one

You do you, I guess. But it is a crime to expose minors to explicit sexual content.

Gay is extra gross.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I will not change my seat because you want to sit next your spouse or kids. It isn't my problem you can't sit together.

I also booked special meals I picked or the flight, so get it through your stupidly thick skulls that even if we switched seats, it causes even more problems when people have pre-specified meal picks. And no, I'd never, ever in a million years give up my aisle or window seat for a worse middle seat.

Why do so many morons insist with sitting next to family members if they can't book next to each other? It's a flight. They're not going anywhere and you'll be fine for a few hours. Requesters for switching seats cause so many stupidly awkward situations and can cause even more problems when other passengers may have specific meals or bought items on shops they have to locate your seat in order to deliver to you. Just sit in your own damn seat people and shut up.

Not morons. Last minute flight for emergency, delayed flight missed connection and added last minuted to new flight, cancelled flight and added on to new flight . . .

My mom was dying. Bought ticket with just a few hours notice. Had to take 7 year old. Flight was obviously overbooked as there were no seats to choose from. So yes, I asked the flight attendant to help us sit together.

Same thing happened when my flight was cancelled due to storm. Luckily people moved so I could sit next to my kids. I’m not trying for a upgrade.

I would not have switched with you.

I paid for the seat I wanted.

These are all your problems not mine.

+1. Unless you're giving me a better seat I'm not moving. IT's not my problem to solve.

It may well become your problem when my kid has a panic attack mid flight or vomits at the end of the flight.
But yes, enjoy your precious seat.

I have noise canceling headphones. Your crotch rocket’s panic attack won’t phase me at all. Not my problem.

And it'll be great for Mommy when I start watching Game of Thrones on my iPad, and little Braylon gets a real education.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I will not change my seat because you want to sit next your spouse or kids. It isn't my problem you can't sit together.

I also booked special meals I picked or the flight, so get it through your stupidly thick skulls that even if we switched seats, it causes even more problems when people have pre-specified meal picks. And no, I'd never, ever in a million years give up my aisle or window seat for a worse middle seat.

Why do so many morons insist with sitting next to family members if they can't book next to each other? It's a flight. They're not going anywhere and you'll be fine for a few hours. Requesters for switching seats cause so many stupidly awkward situations and can cause even more problems when other passengers may have specific meals or bought items on shops they have to locate your seat in order to deliver to you. Just sit in your own damn seat people and shut up.

Not morons. Last minute flight for emergency, delayed flight missed connection and added last minuted to new flight, cancelled flight and added on to new flight . . .

My mom was dying. Bought ticket with just a few hours notice. Had to take 7 year old. Flight was obviously overbooked as there were no seats to choose from. So yes, I asked the flight attendant to help us sit together.

Same thing happened when my flight was cancelled due to storm. Luckily people moved so I could sit next to my kids. I’m not trying for a upgrade.

I would not have switched with you.

I paid for the seat I wanted.

These are all your problems not mine.

+1. Unless you're giving me a better seat I'm not moving. IT's not my problem to solve.

It may well become your problem when my kid has a panic attack mid flight or vomits at the end of the flight.
But yes, enjoy your precious seat.

I have noise canceling headphones. Your crotch rocket’s panic attack won’t phase me at all. Not my problem.

And it'll be great for Mommy when I start watching Game of Thrones on my iPad, and little Braylon gets a real education.

On my way home from asia a few years ago I watched a movie with billy from the street, and it was pretty graphically gay lol. I did not realize. But the cabin was completely dark and theres me, watching a gay 4some on the screen that I'm sure EVERYONE could see. I highly recommend that one

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Anonymous wrote:No. I will not change my seat because you want to sit next your spouse or kids. It isn't my problem you can't sit together.

I also booked special meals I picked or the flight, so get it through your stupidly thick skulls that even if we switched seats, it causes even more problems when people have pre-specified meal picks. And no, I'd never, ever in a million years give up my aisle or window seat for a worse middle seat.

Why do so many morons insist with sitting next to family members if they can't book next to each other? It's a flight. They're not going anywhere and you'll be fine for a few hours. Requesters for switching seats cause so many stupidly awkward situations and can cause even more problems when other passengers may have specific meals or bought items on shops they have to locate your seat in order to deliver to you. Just sit in your own damn seat people and shut up.

Not morons. Last minute flight for emergency, delayed flight missed connection and added last minuted to new flight, cancelled flight and added on to new flight . . .

My mom was dying. Bought ticket with just a few hours notice. Had to take 7 year old. Flight was obviously overbooked as there were no seats to choose from. So yes, I asked the flight attendant to help us sit together.

Same thing happened when my flight was cancelled due to storm. Luckily people moved so I could sit next to my kids. I’m not trying for a upgrade.

I would not have switched with you.

I paid for the seat I wanted.

These are all your problems not mine.

+1. Unless you're giving me a better seat I'm not moving. IT's not my problem to solve.

It may well become your problem when my kid has a panic attack mid flight or vomits at the end of the flight.
But yes, enjoy your precious seat.

I have noise canceling headphones. Your crotch rocket’s panic attack won’t phase me at all. Not my problem.

And it'll be great for Mommy when I start watching Game of Thrones on my iPad, and little Braylon gets a real education.

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Anonymous wrote:We plan on asking because we book the tickets late. Family member died unexpectedly. One of us is in an aisle seat and the other a middle, so we will ask the one next to the middle seat if they are willing to switch with the one in the aisle seat.

We normally pay to sit together but there were no seats left that were together.

The other time we asked, the airline split us and our baby.

I'm sure there are various reasons why this happens, OP.

What is your plan if you cannot be accommodated?

I mean.. what can we do? We need to be at the funeral.

The other time this happened to us, we did book the seats together, but the airline moved us and another couple, who also booked the seats together. It was quite a mess. These are all direct flights. I try not to fly indirect if I can help it. My DD at the time was 13, and she has anxiety. I also don't want her to sit next to men. I've read too many news stories of pervy men touching girls next to them on the plane. I told her that if she does sit next to a guy, then I'd switch seats with her. Luckily she sat next to women, and I was sandwiched between two guys.

Anonymous wrote:We plan on asking because we book the tickets late. Family member died unexpectedly. One of us is in an aisle seat and the other a middle, so we will ask the one next to the middle seat if they are willing to switch with the one in the aisle seat.

We normally pay to sit together but there were no seats left that were together.

The other time we asked, the airline split us and our baby.

I'm sure there are various reasons why this happens, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents who refuse to pay for seat assignments who then expect other people to switch seats that they DID pay for suck.

The airlines create this problem. A parent should not have to pay for an upgraded seat assignment in order to sit next to a minor child. That's like arguing that when disabled people fly with a caretaker, they should be required to pay extra for seat assignment so their caretaker can assist them. Small kids are essentially disabled on airplanes -- they can't reach their tray table or their personal items under the seat in front of them, often they cannot go to the bathroom alone, they can't communicate their needs to the flight attendant, etc. Suggesting that someone in that condition should have to pay an upgrade in order to have the person who will do all that for them nearby is psychotic. Parents aren't trying to sit next to kids so they can gossip about the latest episode of Love Island. It's a necessary set up for everyone involved.

If airlines can find a way to accommodate disabled people flying to ensure they are seated with caretakers, they can do this for families who have kids under a certain age. No one should have to pay an extra $100 per leg so they can provide an infant with a bottle, keep their 2 year old entertained, hold their 5 yr olds hand when they get nervous during landing, help their 4 year old to the bathroom, etc.

But it should be on the airline to figure it out, not on passengers. If you are traveling with young kids and get seated apart, I would go to the flight crew and ask them to assist in figuring it out. Usually it can be done without moving a passengers who paid for assigned seating, because on any plane only about half of flyers do that anyway. But if someone who paid for assignment has to move, the airline can also offer to refund them the cost of that assignment and I think people should be flexible in that situation because we are talking about a basic accommodation that is really beneficial for all involved (the child, the parents, the flight crew, and other passengers).

It's like people forgot how to be human.

You are looking at this backwards. Everyone has to pay (via a specific fare class) if they want to select their seats - whether because they want to sit next to someone, they want an aisle seat, they want extra room, they want to be in the front of the plane wherever. This isn't an instance of an extra fare being levied on parents - it's that parents want a fee that everyone pays waived simply because they are traveling with kids. That is, frankly, selfish and nonsensical.

In the parlance of American Airlines, you are asking that parents and their kids get to pay for a basic economy fare class while getting the benefits of a higher fare class. That's BS, and that should be obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:The last two times my family wasn’t seated together it was because the airline changed the aircraft after we’d booked the tickets.
We’d done our part and paid for seats together and the gate agent was able to move us around.
Sometimes the outrage over “people were too cheap” just isn’t warranted.

This also happened to us this summer. Booked seats together, and then when we checked in my 7yo was on her own away from us.

It's happened to us too - and it doesn't change it's YOUR responsibility to pay attention to any changes to your tickets in advance of the flight to catch any plane changes, etc. You can fix these situations in the airline app or by calling the airline well in advance of arriving at the airport and checking in. We fly all the time (internationally and domestically) and make sure to check any ticketed flights regularly for changes if it's important for us to all sit together.

Oh fck off. It's the airline's responsibility to NOT move your children into separate locations from you when you have booked together, and paid to select seats together. The airlines are screwing up on this. We had cross country flying in both directions earlier this month with a family of five, all booked together well in advance, and the airlines fcked it up on several trips, with the gate agent admitting as much. Just cause they ping my app a few hours before the flight doesn't make it my responsibility. I paid for seats together, it's their responsibility to honor that.

And regarding changing seats: I do it if I can for others, and I offer to pay in cash or buy drinks if someone does it to accommodate me.

Good for you for making sure to "check any ticketed flights regularly" like some kind of airline lackey, but fck that. The airlines stopped being decent to deal with years ago.

Cool story. I have my personal feelings and opinions too but choose to operate as an adult within the current system which says it’s my responsibility to deal with this if it happens.

Doesn’t matter what I “feel” personally about it. You sound like a child.

Learn to read the T&C when you book your next flight, you might learn something.

"The Airline said so" is not a compelling argument to me. It sounds like it is to you, a high conformity person.

There are two ways to resist bad policy: 1. Don't participate (never fly, in this case) 2. Don't cooperate.

You are of the spineless sort who will cooperate no matter what, as long as it's official, and as long as it's in writing.

I am a different poster, and I agree with this. Except not in the way you think - I think it's bad policy when a fellow passenger asks me to move, so I don't cooperate. Sounds like we are in agreement.

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Anonymous wrote:No. I will not change my seat because you want to sit next your spouse or kids. It isn't my problem you can't sit together.

I also booked special meals I picked or the flight, so get it through your stupidly thick skulls that even if we switched seats, it causes even more problems when people have pre-specified meal picks. And no, I'd never, ever in a million years give up my aisle or window seat for a worse middle seat.

Why do so many morons insist with sitting next to family members if they can't book next to each other? It's a flight. They're not going anywhere and you'll be fine for a few hours. Requesters for switching seats cause so many stupidly awkward situations and can cause even more problems when other passengers may have specific meals or bought items on shops they have to locate your seat in order to deliver to you. Just sit in your own damn seat people and shut up.

Not morons. Last minute flight for emergency, delayed flight missed connection and added last minuted to new flight, cancelled flight and added on to new flight . . .

My mom was dying. Bought ticket with just a few hours notice. Had to take 7 year old. Flight was obviously overbooked as there were no seats to choose from. So yes, I asked the flight attendant to help us sit together.

Same thing happened when my flight was cancelled due to storm. Luckily people moved so I could sit next to my kids. I’m not trying for a upgrade.

I would not have switched with you.

I paid for the seat I wanted.

These are all your problems not mine.

+1. Unless you're giving me a better seat I'm not moving. IT's not my problem to solve.

It may well become your problem when my kid has a panic attack mid flight or vomits at the end of the flight.
But yes, enjoy your precious seat.

I have noise canceling headphones. Your crotch rocket’s panic attack won’t phase me at all. Not my problem.