Originally Posted by
aragno
Do you take this same position even for a short haul flight?
Yes.
What if they are traveling as an emergency trip and needed the soonest flight but seats were separate? Would you really be so unwilling to move to accommodate and ruin someone's day?
Apparently, you haven't read the thread. I always try to help in an emergency.
I'm sure a parent would not choose to be separated from a child.
No, but a parent would either book seats apart and expect strangers to move for them, or run the risk of an equipment change, etc., and rather than take a later flight, expect strangers to move for them.
I would consider the person to be uncooperative...
Whereas I would consider parents in the above two categories to be rude, selfish and entitlement-demanding. Strangers don't have to cooperate with you, and to expect them to solely because you are engaging in discretionary travel with a child is unrealistic and entitlement-demanding.
If it was the same aisle seat but in another row, would that be workable?
Which row? If not too far apart, no problem, depending on the attitude of the parent, e.g. I don't respond well to someone already sitting in my seat who says, "You HAVE to move so I can sit with my child." That discussion would never even get to, "where is your seat?"