Airlines have condemned government plans to stop them charging parents to sit beside their children, warning that the changes threaten the ability to profit from making a three-year-old cry.

I think the stranger would be the one more willing to pay extra for no kids sitting next to them.

I was all seated ready for take off and the guy next to me (impolite tone) said "you go up there, I want to sit with my wife"

If somebody was polite I'd consider it but he was a dick, and could have paid to sit with his travel partner.

For all he knows I could have paid for this exact seat.

I fly quite often and I usually do pay for my seat. Always want an aisle seat, dislike the trapped feeling sitting in the middle or window, and never want to bother the other people if I need to get out for some reason. Also prefer to get the front of the plane to deboard faster.

Hope you are comfortable with her on your lap, fuckface. I ain't goin nowhere. And this is officially my armrest while we are at it. Kiss my ass.

If somebody was polite I’d consider it but he was a dick, and could have paid to sit with his travel partner.

This is how we know you're Canadian, and the other guy was Toronto.

Always want an aisle seat,

We should fly together. I'm your window weirdo who HATES airplane bathrooms, so also not gonna need to get past you for all 8 hours.

willing to pay extra for no kids

The idea of 'no kids' flights or sections has been floated before. It was, oddly, shut down as an idea.

Had a kid sitting behind me on a flight coming home from far away. Kicked the entirety of the flight. After a few pointed looks to its parent - this is Canada, and he should have gotten the fn hint - I was gonna ask whether he wants me to teach the child some of the words I learned working on the water or as infantry. Like, maybe he keeps the kid in line or we're all gonna learn some words he'll remember for school. He seemed to finally fn get it, and I was the most relieved.

Nothing I hate more than a family trying to switch seats with half the plane because they didn't get tickets together. If it's a first come first serve seating plane that's one thing but I have seen people pull this shit on flights where you can select your seat before hand.

Wow, we found the guy!

Maybe they couldn't afford the extra cost per seat? It can be a pricy option.

Nah I think he was trying to portray what he would've said as OP

Often it’s not their fault. Happened to me, our flight was canceled and we got split up. I don’t prefer relying on the kindness of strangers to ensure my children’s wellbeing on the flight but I had literally no other choice.

Then they can't afford to fly. Stay home. Leave me the fuck alone. I paid for what I wanted, go to hell.

You have to pay $200 to sit next to your kid and wife.. fuck these airline fees

One Never AI Slop Kitty coupon.

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I'm 350 pounds. You are my dream flight partner.

I was so tired of airline bullshit once when going back home from Montreal to Copenhagen, that when the airline tried to split my partner and I from sitting next to each other, so a toddler could move to their parents, I just refused... Until they offered a free upgrade to 1st class.

First time I was ever thankful for a toddler on a plane.

You can't afford first class, or private jet maybe you should stay home.

Realise economy is basically the caged area on the bottom of the titanic

Was the upgrade for just you, or your wife?

I can understand that I would also take an offer for a 1st class upgrade to get away from the screaming toddlers

Skip the middleman. Passengers should start negotiating with each other and pay each other directly for any seat moves.

I have no idea why there aren’t sections on planes specifically for parents and young children. All passengers win. Coughing, kicking, screaming kids make an already irritating form of transportation even more trying.

Uh...yes? How does that relate to them feeling entitled to impose on others because they decided to make a waking petri dish?

And they do the same shit in business/first. With most narrow-body configs being 2-2 and fewer seats available it's harder to get three in a row on short notice. They always want my aisle seat across from the 2 they got together. I almost always tell them to fuck off. I don't want to be back by the restrooms, or up by the galley, and I definitely don't want a window seat. If they want to trade for another aisle seat one row back or forward and I'm alone, maybe I'll do it, but I booked what I wanted and I don't understand how they have the gall to impose on a stranger like that. And I'm usually sitting next to my wife, but do you think that stops them? Fuck no, they will look you in the face and with no sense of irony say "do you really have to sit next to her?" Sometimes they're doing it to multiple people because their seats are scattered all over. You run into that more on wide-bodies because the seats aren't really next to each other often, many times they're kind of off-set a bit to fit the lay-flats in and if you don't understand the seating chart you might not be as close as you think. But I do understand the seating chart and I am as close to being next to my wife as I can get and don't want to move. It's even worse when they do it to people back in coach if they're trying to stick them with a center seat. I haven't been in that situation in many years but that would be an even harder no.

Ugh, I bit the onion.

The airline doesn't care. It makes more work for them

Partner's 1st class upgrade was not having to sit next to commenter

every day i wake up and smile because i will never have to set foot on a plane, either i can get somewhere by public transport or i'm just not going there.