Originally Posted by
cjermain
UA won't let children under 5 fly as unaccompanied minors, meaning it doesn't think they can sit by themselves on a plane with occasional adult supervision (from the FA). So why would it sell a BE fare to such a child? I get why people are annoyed with the parent who purchased an inappropriate product and wanted to be bailed out, but why is UA selling a product that it knows is inappropriate? UA is not blameless here.
Based on the original post, the child was initially assigned a seat in the row directly behind the mother. That's not a UM situation.
What I want to know is, what if it had been a regional jet with only 2 seats per row? The mother would have had to be separated from one of the children anyway, no? Would she still have been in tears at the gate if that had been the case?