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.
I give it about 4 minutes before airlines add a completely unrelated fee and a credit for not picking seats.
put a ban on rubbish fees to pick your seats all together
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?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.
That has to be seriously outdated before digital tickets.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.
United only instituted a family seating policy last year so that people with kids under 12 could freely pick seats next to each other.
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
Even now on a major like Delta: pay to pick a seat. Pay more to sit next to your kid
Seat selections are extra most of the time. If I’m traveling on a budget the cost of the seat is the same as a meal so I don’t pick it
The worst offender is Turkish airlines that charges $40 per person per leg of trip, so I’d need to pay $160 to pick seats for my upcoming trip to SEA
Lately, airlines tend to separate travellers who reserve together, probably so they’ll spend extra to change seats.
Do you have a source on SW moving to assigned seats? That’s devastating news to me :(
Early next year.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/southwest-seating-change-what-it-means/
There’s hundreds of stories on this, not sure what the best news source is for this info, but there’s a ton.
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.”
Yeah they’re real annoying at 15.
I’ve flown with a 2 and 3 year old on budget airlines. And just not booked seats because. They legally can’t separate toddlers from parents. Every time they just seat us in the back all 4 together.
Inb4 the airline companies cry “Chevron” and the Supreme Court gets to
decidestrike it down.That’s not what the Chevron doctrine was. The Chevron doctrine stated that courts should defer to agency interpretations of the law.
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
You mean you dont enjoy getting your seat kicked while listening to wailing for hours in a cramped cabin?
Makes sense. Otherwise, the flight attendants end up having to ask for volunteers to play musical chairs to make sure they have a place to sit together.
On flights with sufficient seating, I’ve seen families shuffle themselves around to find seating together. Glad there will be a better way to do this now
Mayor Pete, doing good work here.
