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U.S. proposes ban on airline fees for seating parents next to kids (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world

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[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

At least when my kids were young, you'd have to pay extra to pick a seat, at least if you purchased through Expedia or Travelocity.

And if so, do they not seat everyone in your reservation together?

You know how you print your boarding pass and it has your seats? When my kids were young on multiple trips via United, AA and Delta, the boarding pass would not have a seat assignment and we'd have to go the gate agent at every gate, even on the same airline if it was not a direct flight and get our seats assigned last minute. So no, we weren't always seated together. On one flight, none of us were in the same row with anyone in our family.

Since we were scraping by back then we always booked months in advance for cheaper tickets. I thought originally it was a fluke with just United but after the next trip, I had learned to pay extra and pick seats ahead of time.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That has to be seriously outdated before digital tickets. I’ve been flying United with kids for 16 years and haven’t had to pay extra to pick seats.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

United only instituted a family seating policy last year so that people with kids under 12 could freely pick seats next to each other.