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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (7 children)

airlines would be required to seat parents and kids 13 and younger together free of charge when adjacent seating is available at booking.

They should even go further and require to move other passengers if neccessary, so that the families can sit together always, no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Nah, that ain't it. If I book my seat and then find out that I got moved for a kid, I'll be pretty annoyed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What happens when the only way to seat a family together is to break up another family. What if you need to separate a couple who is engaged and traveling together?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

separate a couple who is engaged and traveling together?

we call those people adults and understand that they have less requirements than children.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuck that noise. Plan ahead. I’ll repeat what someone else said. Parents shitty planning doesn’t become my problem. I pick the seat I want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Your sacred planning (as well as your convenience) isn't worth more than their right to take care of their children. Sorry, you loose.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

LOL what a load of entitled BS.

Again, taking care of your children means taking care of your children. Your failure to be a good parent is not the responsibility of the seat I paid to sit in.

Ridiculous. Quit projecting your own shitty parenting on other responsible adults.

You lose, by the way, not “loose”. Maybe you should take some of those grade school English classes with your kids.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

LOL what a load of entertaining, even humoring, well, whatever :)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Their lack of planning and inability to plan ahead is their own problem to deal with and not the problem of people who can actually plan ahead to handle their own affairs. Cope harder

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

No. Removing fees for parent and young children makes sense, but if I've paid extra to choose my seat I'm not OK with being moved for someone else's lack of planning. Not my parent and not my kid so my life doesn't revolve around them. If someone were to ask me if I could move in that situation that's one thing. But even then it would be well within my rights to say no.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

I would be sad if my wife and I got split up to accommodate a parent and child. But we'd get over it because we're adults and the parent/child need adjacent seats more than we do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I agree to an extent. It would be beneficial if they could book any AVAILABLE seats together for free. This practice should be standard for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why? Can people not sit apart for a few hours? I agree with no charging but moving because you didn’t book in advance with enough time to sit together shouldn’t result in others being inconvenienced.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People...as in children? you want a toddler to sit by themselves for a few hours?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This specific thread is responding to this comment, not the original article:

They should even go further and require to move other passengers if neccessary, so that the families can sit together always, no matter what.

Which is maybe why there's a big disconnect between you and all the comments you're replying to

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Do not move my fucking seat without my consent. I booked early to make certain I could have it. The families can take another flight. Fucking hell. Flying is miserable enough already without being shuffled into a middle seat because of someone else's problem.