Originally Posted by
rjque
As mentioned above, you are making an unjustified assumption about the other posters in this thread (myself included, apparently). Every request to give up a preselected seat for a lesser seat is going to involve weighing the inconvenience of the seat change against the apparent need of the person asking for the change. You are assuming that a change to a window is merely a minor inconvenience because that is all you consider it to be. I don't consider it a minor inconvenience, and the need for a seat across the aisle from a disabled child (who is already seated next to her mother) is, at first glance, seemingly unimportant. I suppose I could be convinced otherwise, but on its face this change seems like a big inconvenience to me (I would actually change flights if I had time) for something that doesn't seem incredibly important for the person seeking the change.
Wow, I guess I see things completely differently from you.
Yes, I am assuming that you are a normal and able bodied person with no medical issues preventing you from sitting in a window seat. If that in fact is false, then please feel free to elaborate if you wish. I don't think my assumption of you being a normal able bodied person is an unreasonable one.
Given that, you feel it is, at first glance, more of an inconvenience for you to move to a window seat than give a parent easier access to a disabled child. Yes, there is one parent that already has access, but you are saying that the inconvenience for you (an assumed normal able bodied person) to move to a window seat trumps that of a parent (second parent, I know) to sit closer to a disabled child.
So yes, my position is that I strongly disagree with you. My only assumption that I made is that you are a normal able bodied person with no medical need to sit on an aisle. Given that assumption, I say the needs (real or potential) of giving close access to both parents for a disabled child SEVERELY trumps your need to be in an aisle.
Is it mere inconvenience that forces to you insist upon an aisle seat or is there a medical or otherwise debillitating reason you must avoid the window?