Originally Posted by
24left
The thing is, many posters are not "childless, single, career freaks" but also have and fly with their children.
Perhaps as suggested above, this is some ridiculous piece of data that came from focus groups for the upcoming election, where every party tries to find constituencies they can win over.
IMHO, it has nothing to do with some of us not understanding that children are our future. And I understand your view about not wanting your kids to pay for others. But given that we live in Canada, which most days runs as a giant "group-benefit plan", we are all paying something for someone else.
This issue is about learning how to buy a ticket and how the choices one makes in buying that ticket has implications on others.
Allvest, I'm sorry if you see this debate as a battle about the merits of children. It is absolutely not, for me at least. It is either the rules apply to everyone, or to no one.
AC spent time and money and caused no shortage of stress with their red bag tags and other adventures. I am quite sure someone there is clever enough to figure out a better solution.
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I think it's about whether a parent receiving confirmed seating with their child should be considered an "entitlement" or whether they should be "made to pay" for it
I, for one, do not believe that multiple PAX in a PNR should be separated in the first place. The reservation system could easily handle these things, but I would bet that AC has contracted IBM to write special code to separate PAX so they'll never ever think about not paying a ridiculous fee to select a seat in advance.
Apart from the above, this also doesn't make AC look good in front of the public. It wouldn't take much for AC to offer some human touch to their service offerings without being legislated to do so.