Originally Posted by
cbn42
What would be the point of such a law? Of course an airline will seat families together if space is available. A law saying "do it if you can" is completely meaningless.
The reservation system should preclude a family from booking if there are not adjacent seats. If there are adjacent seats, the system should not allow the family to be separated, whether for equipment change or whatever arbitrary glitch results in random seat changes.
A law like this would prevent a family from booking separate seats and then crying about, "but what am I supposed to do?" after they are on-board.