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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?

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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.

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separate a couple who is engaged and traveling together?

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

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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.

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How do you expect someone to plan ahead for a death in the family?

Not everyone is flying on vacation…

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This only became a problem because airlines started charging extra to pick your seats. That practice is what should be made illegal. Splitting up a group because they didn’t want to pay your extortion fee is BS.

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

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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.

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Would that couple want to sit next to an unattended child bc the airline refused to keep the family together?

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I think the answer would be to find another flight instead of breaking them up.

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What happens when the only way to seat a family together is to break up another family.

Then their software may be clueless, so it needs some Natural Intelligence [tm], and maybe even an experienced person to solve that.

I am sure there will be a way. Most planes can carry more than 2 families.

What if you need to separate a couple who is engaged and traveling together?

They are going to survive ;-)
No problem at all.

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The family would also survive if they don’t get to sit together.

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Settle it in the Thunderdome!

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