If two 23 year old people wanted to sit together that badly, they should have gotten their seating squared away earlier...I don’t have any consideration for that.
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When going on our HONEYMOON, we booked our seats weeks or months in advance. On one leg of the trip they either combined 2 flights into one or were using a smaller plane. Mass chaos and when checking in; it seemed like the gate people were having to manually assign seats. At first they had seated my Bride and I at opposite ends of the plane.Im not sure how they worked it out but we were able to sit together,d although not in our chosen seats. We didnt want to ruin the day by pushing the issue.