Originally Posted by
NYTA
Agree, with all that stuff about the family, also one of the main reasons I like status (especially for the baggage allowance and shorter lines) but I got flamed for it on the DL forum just this week for suggesting that it was ok to seat my wife and kids with me in "Economy Comfort" seats when they all aren't platinum like me. Some people take their status a little too seriously!
In the spirit of compromise, perhaps you should have offered to sit with only your wife and one child in EC, sending the other(s) to the back. This offers several advantages:
- it preserves seat(s) for the (self)important elites
-it ups the sibling rivalry while decreasing the chance of their becoming DYKWIA (although with EC...that's not really a concern is it???)
-in the best possible scenario, the dejected child whines the whole way to his/her seatmates, who happen to be elites unable to get an EC. They then start a thread on the Delta forum, stating that you shouldn't have been allowed any seats in EC and should be forced to accompany your annoying child in the back...providing hours of amusement until the mods close the thread.
And please...this is in jest
