Anonymous wrote:8 is WAY too old for that crap. Is your kid special ed?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I'm going to guess that you are about 5'4", right? Because if you were 6'4", you'd understand that it's not just inconvenient to sit in a middle seat for a 6 hour cross country trip. It's really uncomfortable. But hey, that's their problem, right? Your connecting flight was delayed, so they get to spend the next 6 hours with their knees in their chin. Heaven forbid the repercussions of your bad luck fall on you - make someone else bear the burden. Unreal. Note: I'd most likely move for a kid. But your outrage that random passengers won't inconvenience themselves to make sure your flight is as comfortable as can be is absurd. The irony is, I'm sure you are a recliner, too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I'm going to guess that you are about 5'4", right? Because if you were 6'4", you'd understand that it's not just inconvenient to sit in a middle seat for a 6 hour cross country trip. It's really uncomfortable. But hey, that's their problem, right? Your connecting flight was delayed, so they get to spend the next 6 hours with their knees in their chin. Heaven forbid the repercussions of your bad luck fall on you - make someone else bear the burden. Unreal. Note: I'd most likely move for a kid. But your outrage that random passengers won't inconvenience themselves to make sure your flight is as comfortable as can be is absurd. The irony is, I'm sure you are a recliner, too.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I totally agree. I can't believe that this country is so anti-kid that grown men and women would not move for a child younger than nine. It's crazy. I can't even imagine this ever happening in a country like Italy or Spain. They would publicly shame any adult who wouldn't move.[/quote
It happened to us in Paris on Air France/Delta. We are a family of 4 and were flying coach and as we handed our boarding tickets at the gate that little machine distributed new boarding tickets and the agent goes "oh congratulations, you've been upgraded to business" but when we looked at them we were all separated and we said no thank you we need to sit together, or at leastb2 and 2 or 3 and 1 and the gate agent said "sorry, but you will have to take these new seats." So we go on the plane and the flight attendants try to get people to move and no,one would. NO ONE! I didn't want these seats, they weren't the ones we picked when we bought the tickets, I finally strapped in the car seat to the seat, put my 18 month old in, and walked away, wishing the Lady Luck and he screamed while I cried. Finally these two mean agreed to move so at least I could sit next to my son. My DH had to sit across the aisle from my daughter. It was awful. This has happened twice.

This summer we flew to Europe again, but my kids are now much older. We were once again upgraded, and of course our seats were not together, but luckily were 2 and 2, right behind one another. So the kids say they want to sit together, and since we were behind them we said ok. But the flight attendants said it was a no no. That children must sit next to a parent, in particular at take off and landing. Well, isn't that convenient, that wasn't the case before....,