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Intentionally seating families apart? My experience is the opposite when I have paid to be seated apart and they have allocated us to sit together.

I just think the airlines have inadequate systems in place to handle seating but also more and more people having status or paying to pre-allocate seats making it more difficult to be consistent.
 
Intentionally seating families apart? My experience is the opposite when I have paid to be seated apart and they have allocated us to sit together.

I just think the airlines have inadequate systems in place to handle seating but also more and more people having status or paying to pre-allocate seats making it more difficult to be consistent.
Yep. My mother and I were booked on same PNR in j Domestic. Until the morning of the trip. At the airport I didn’t realize anything had changed until I went to QP Bus lounge and it was the host who picked up we were separated and asked if that was correct. (She took a look at mum who was in her eighties and blind.). She had no explanation as to why we’d need changed.
 
I flew Ryanair a lot when I lived in the UK and I always wondered why they didn't automatically fill up middle seats first and then give you the option to pay to get out of them.

I estimate that I was allocate a middle seat automatically on maybe 10% of my flights.
 
Years ago, one the same PNR all 5 of us were split up at checkin. Air Canada. 5 tickets. 1 year old kept his bassinet seat. 3 year old twins separated from each other by 4 or 5 rows. We were behind all the kids but separated from each other. I think it was the 767 that used to ply the SYD-HNL-YVR route. We had selected seats at booking.

We were told we had to ask the cabin crew to reseat all of us. Gate agent couldnt/wouldnt help either. Eventually had to negotiate directly with passengers to help out. No thanks to AC - I still remember.
 
To be honest, I hope he is.

I would rather roll the dice and then have the ability to pay extra if I wished. I also admit, I have a soft spot for Ryanair (there must be some kind of undiagnosed issue with me! - can you get Stockholm Syndrome with an airline?)
 
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