Seat Karma

[abooth]

Twenty-three hours and fifty five minutes before my flight was due to take off (I'm in England now, btw), I checked in online and got an aisle seat in the exit row, which I was very excited about. That was good news

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[quale]

Wait! Young children aren't allowed in the exit rows on most plans! If they are they really shouldn't be, you can't possibly be focused on opening the door (especially over the injured person next to you) or getting out of the wa quickly if you are dealing with your baby.

I'm a big believer in giving up seats to let people sit together. I likely would have done just what you did though I might have checked first to see if they had asked the person in the non-exit row to switch.

However, I kinda wonder if in this sort of circumstance i really should do so. After all the reason to switch seats is that usually the loss of utility you suffer is small compared to the gain the couple gets from sitting together. But doesn't the fact that they got a seat in the exit row indicate that they choose a seat in the exit row rather than to sit together (since these seats usually go first)?

[abooth]

Young children aren't allowed in the exit rows on most plans!

I thought this was true too, but maybe it only applies to the aisle blocks (women with baby was in e in the plan I drew above).

But doesn't the fact that they got a seat in the exit row indicate that they choose a seat in the exit row rather than to sit together (since these seats usually go first)?

Possibly not, as sometimes airlines reserve a few seats in extra room rows expressly for passengers travelling with young kids.

[abooth]

To clarify "aisle block", I meant abc and hjk to the exclusion of defg. I'm not sure what a good term for that would be.