Originally Posted by
luvntony14
If others have paid for their seat assignment and you did not I would not expect them to move for you and your family. You have the same option they did by paying for your seats so you can assure that you sit together.
I believe a 5yr. old is old enough to travel as an unaccompanied minor, so him sitting by himself is of no consequence to the airline.
Welcome to FT!
If you read the post to which you refer, you will see that the poster had reserved seats. (Whether s/he paid for them, or got them some other way, is irrelevant.) They were cancelled due to a flight delay. That is not the poster's fault. While this does not change the situation, it might call for a little more understanding.
Even if a five-year-old is technically old enough to travel unaccompanied, a child of that age is young enough for a parent to be at least a little concerned. Also, UM travel involves a good deal of documentation, including notifying the cabin crew to watch out for the child. I doubt that happened here.
Surely it should have been possible to at least move them into middle seats one behind the other? I might not swap my aisle for a middle, but I'd swap my middle for another comparable middle - especially if I was the passenger seated in front of the child and didn't know how much he or she might kick my seat during the flight. I'd probably swap with the parent in a heartbeat.
