Some of us think you're just being cheap.

I’ve definitely selected adjacent seats in the past, then ended up separated the day of the flight. Even if it’s a couple, it’s probably the airline’s fault.

I solved the problem by preferring southwest, but their new CEO is an a*hole, and instead of raising ticket prices $50 a seat is adding assigned seating, removing legroom, charging for bags, adding ticket change fees, etc, etc.

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lotsofpulp 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I avoid southwest because they don’t have assigned seating.

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dboreham 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Post time traveled from when they didn't. But now they do.

	▲	lotsofpulp 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting, I’m sure they didn’t as recently as 4 weeks ago when I tried shopping for flights.

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FireBeyond 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Even if it’s a couple, it’s probably the airline’s fault.

Citation needed. These things happen, and the airline has some responsibility. But there's plenty of "playing dumb". Cabin crew: "You have a basic economy seat, which means you didn't get seat selection". "I didn't know!" "There's a big blue warning that pops up when you do this with a child passenger, making you acknowledge it..." "..."

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mrguyorama 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Indeed, having children should have tiny nickel and dime costs all throughout your life in a million different ways. It should be the norm that just trying to raise the next generation costs you time, energy, effort, and money just to do normal day to day things, and it should especially be harder for you because you dared to have children.

Wait, why is nobody having kids?

	▲	sfdlkj3jk342a 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Generally you will be expected to pay for the costs of your life decisions. The world has more than enough people, so we shouldn't be subsidizing having children. Imbalanced demographics can be solved in other ways.

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thieving_magpie 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Some of us are just trying to survive financially or couldn't care less what you think.

Tough luck then buddy. Have fun with the kids.

There has to be some kind of middle ground here, imo. Nobody wants to sit next to kids. Families don't want to be penalized financially anymore than they already are for providing a benefit to society. We don't need to further disincentivize families and further our declining birth rates. At the same time it's wildly unfair to ask people to switch seats when they've paid for them (or even if they haven't).