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Old Apr 17, 2013, 6:37 pm
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hobo13
 
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Originally Posted by kmfdm91

My wife and I fly a lot and now that we have a baby
And THIS is exactly our situation.

On the other hand, I have yet to find anyone who refuses to swap seats considering their alternative is to sit next to a baby, LOL!

Interestingly, we went from being a 6A/6B couple on a 757 to a 1A/1B couple after kids. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to get the F bulkhead anymore because the CO algorithm auto-fills that row, whereas PMUA assumed (rightly so) that the F bulkhead was the least desirable seats in the cabin and thus the bulkhead seats often were available right up until the finally UGers were cleared at the gate.

And yes, it is truly a FirstWorldProblem..... and for sure, don't even THINK about complaining about it to any of your other parent friends! It's also not a topic that usually comes up on the MommyBlogs.
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