Originally Posted by
Segments
Why not 7ABC and 8C? or 8D if available?
Possible, but not ideal because they're too far away to be taking care of the younger one -- across the aisle isn't optimal already. I've actually switched to 7ABC-F now, and will probably just have my wife sit in F and then switch into C and treat the younger one as a lap child once we're in the air if he acts up.
Originally Posted by
ft101
But they did, so you are - "the poor schlub in 7C is going to LOVE all the traffic handing things back and forth".
Now by your own admission there are suitable seats further back.
Suitable, but not comparable -- well back beyond the extra room seats, let alone bulkheads. Having selected specific flights to get non-exit bulkheads to have more room -- including to let the kids get up and stretch a bit -- I'm not going to give that up just to help avoid some inconvenience to a neighbor.
It could be worse -- there could be no bulkheads on that flight and we could jut take one row BCDE or two rows middle-aisle and trap two people in window seats in rows with kids.