[Bloody Sam Roberts]

If they paid for the seat then they have the right to refuse. There are limits but I’d like to know if they paid for a ticket for the child.

[Red Badger]

The seat was paid for, but the name was for their 18 year old son who took another flight. ...................

[bk1000]

“There are limits but I’d like to know if they paid for a ticket for the child.”

Used to be, a child under 3 could be considered a “babe in arms” and could fly free if carried on one’s lap.

[DaveA37]

“You need to do what’s right,” he tells the airline employee. “I bought the seat and you need to just leave us alone.”.........

If they indeed did pay for the seat, they have the right to claim that seat for that flight. It is NOT the fault of the passengers to overbook a flight, it’s the airlines. I see a big law suit coming......... Airlines better get their sh&t together or there will be a lot more of this to come.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

There are limits but I’d like to know if they paid for a ticket for the child.

According to the video, he says, a number of times, he paid for a seat for his child so he could put the child in the car seat.

Then, the flight attendant said he can't put a child car seat in the seat. His reply: On a Delta flight to Hawaii, the car seat was allowed and his child sat in it.

[af_vet_1981]

Fake news

They did not buy seats for their small children; they saved the cost of those seats and tried to reuse a seat they bought for an adult son who did not take the flight. They did not "buy the seat" as if they could do anything they want with it. They have no right to use that seat for someone else.

[gunsequalfreedom]

If they paid for the seat then they have the right to refuse. There are limits but I’d like to know if they paid for a ticket for the child.

The person whose name was tied to that seat did not board the plane. The parents bought the seat but the person that was assigned to that seat left on an earlier flight so the parents decided to use it for their two-year-old that did not have a boarding pass or seat assignment.

Nobody checked in for that assigned seat. It at that point becomes vacant and available for other passengers that want to take the flight.

You can't buy two seats just to have an extra next to you apparently is the rule...unless you are too fat and the make you buy two seats.

I'm saying the parents were not being reasonable and were not following the rules. I side with the airline on this one.

[Sacajaweau]

They paid for that seat for a grown up who was a no show.

But the rules are very clear. A two year old MUST be held on a parents lap for the duration of the flight.

So that seat should have been unoccupied.

The parents should be getting the money from whomever was supposed to be in the seat.

[Mr. Douglas]

For most stuff I agree. But when it comes to airlines it is a bit tricky. You don’t just purchase a ticket. You purchase a ticket in the name of the passenger that will be using the seat.

In this case, the article says, “...he originally bought the seat for his 18-year-old son Mason, but then decided to send him home on an earlier flight so that he could use the seat for his younger child, Grayson, who was placed in a car seat.”

Grayson is not who the seat was purchased for.

[2nd amendment mama]

Reading the whole article - not just the headline - works.