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..." "..."