Parents should be responsible enough to make that happen. The airline is NOT forcing parents and children to sit separately. They are offering a product that families flying together should likely not take but if they do it is their responsibility. If you were correct and they were required to reseat these people then others who paid more would be dislocated, as did happen in this case. What you are implying is the parents can opt for the lower fee and then the airline MUST give them the higher service. It's ridiculous. I do agree with the person who said one more rule should be added to the list of BE, families flying together may not take that rate. it is too fraught with this kind of irresponsible complaint.
Originally Posted by
JYBritt
If I'm going to a professional sports game or a concert, and I wish to buy more than one ticket, it's ASSUMED by the venue and/or the vendor that those in my party would wish to sit together--and we're not charged a premium for doing so. Doesn't take too much of an imagination for the reader to figure out how the UA President got to be the UA President, and it makes one feel sorry for all those in the organization beneath him.
And such assumption would disallow the BE rate for families flying together which solves the problem. But right now it is the irresponsible or negligent parent that is at fault not the airline.