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U.S. proposes ban on airline fees for seating parents next to kids (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Between this and the airbag thing, the USA just continues to blow my mind like, "Just when you couldn't think they couldn't be second-class citizens any more..... BAM!!! Here's some shit developed nations didn't even consider could be a thing."

We'd send aid, but with that GDP, just assumed everyone super rich. You're all super rich, right? Well looked after? Healthy? Educated?... Aight I'll stop.

You're all (mostly) actually really nice people and don't deserve this shit. Excellent huggers too.

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

Glad you qualified it with "mostly." I hate this hell hole and can't wait to leave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Mostly is a bit generous, honestly.

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

Just curious: Where do you plan on going?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My girlfriend is Mexican. Her family have property all over the country. She's also a Chilean resident. We're considering Santiago. (Mexico is a mess most places.) I've also considered a few locations near the Spain/France border, but that would take more effort.

I'm an independent consultant and can work anywhere.

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

Ahhh, that’s a nice set up. Lucky! Really, I was asking because people love to say “fuck this country, I’m going to another!”, without really taking into consideration the figurative mountain you will have to climb to get there. That is to say, it’s extremely difficult to immigrate out of the US.

Also, I’d love a job like that. I’d be more interested in WFH flat out, but being able to do “whatever you want” and not have that negatively impact work would be nice as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Most Americans are so fucking brainwashed to think this the best country. Tell me you've never been overseas without saying you've never left the country.

Every time I return, I go into a massive depression.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

13 only? I'd like that option all the way to 18. 1) 14 year olds can be harassed or taken advantage of. 2) If I'm legally responsible for their behavior, I want to be nearby.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So I don't get all this. Everything I buy tickets, I choose my seats unless I fly southwest. And even they are going to move to assigned seats.
Is this a new thing that you don't get to pick your seats on some airlines? And if so, do they not seat everyone in your reservation together?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You've never flown budget airlines like Frontier, Spirit then. They'll charge you $20-$100 to pick seats (per seat)

And also even on mainline carriers like American/Delta with Basic Economy fares they do much the same

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

put a ban on rubbish fees to pick your seats all together

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'd pay not to sit next to kids.

Maybe that's the route they should take. Doesn't even matter if you're a parent, perhaps you're just sick of the little shits

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I would pay so much money for "no children allowed" flights.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I give it about 4 minutes before airlines add a completely unrelated fee and a credit for not picking seats.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

If they don't have this instituted already, if I were a parent, I'd say "Yeah, ok. You can keep me not seated with my kid. But what are you going ho do when they start crying, and kicking and punching because they're in an unfirmiliar environment, surrounded by strangers, with no firmiliar faces? How are YOU going to calm my kids down? Because you're saying right now that you're taking away MY ability to do so, so then it just becomes YOUR legal responsibility who he hits, or kicks, or bites, because he's scared. Because what are YOU going to do? Smack a kid? You think you could calm him down without violence? The whole reason he's scared is because planes are scary, and strangers are scary. You think you, a stranger, will in any way help the situation? Oh, you just found seats together for us? Yeah. I thought so."

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

No breeder it isn't.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

No they shouldn't go even further. A parent's inability to plan ahead should not penalize those of us who do.

I specifically purchase my seat because that's where I want to sit, center aisle because I have a slight medical condition and the extra (occasional) leg room helps mitigate it.

Check your unearned parental privileges at the door mate.

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

Don't airlines usually charge a bit extra to pick your own seat? I'd imagine/hope that there are enough people selecting the cheaper "whatever" option that they're going to bump one of those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What I would not like is for a parent to pay for the upgraded seat next to me and then I get bumped to accommodate their child.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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.