Originally Posted by
amindu
the travel will be late November. We don’t care about airline or alliance just which is the best route with 2 young kids. Also looking at seating options either an aircraft that does 4 in the middle or 2 on the sides for the longer route.
If you're traveling during Thanksgiving week, I'd strongly recommend connecting in Europe. That is the busiest travel season in the US, all flights are full, it's hard to get rebooked in case of missed connections, airports are extremely congested and lines at TSA security checkpoints are very long.