‘Kids should sit with their parents’: Petition urges airlines to seat families together for free

Travelers buying airline tickets today are increasingly faced with a costly decision: pay up for seat assignments or risk not sitting together on the plane.Blame the proliferation of pricey airline seat selection fees, which have spread from no-frills airlines like Spirit and Frontier to major carriers including Delta, United and American, and the advent of basic economy tickets. The latter don’t come with a free advance seat assignment, and airlines routinely try to scare […]  » Read More