Originally Posted by
guv1976
Yes, just because the OP was an adult traveling with two children. From aa.com:
"If you’re unable to choose seats, don’t want to pay for seats, or chose a Basic Economy fare, our system will detect that you’re a family traveling. The system will search for seats together automatically before the day of departure. We’ll try our best to keep you together, but if seats are limited, we’ll assign seats so children under 15 are next to at least 1 adult."
(Emphasis added.)
I think the algorithm includes in seats “next to” as those across the aisle or directly in front or back. At least on some of the European airlines like BA it does. So in the eyes of the algorithm this was fine.