Reserved Seating Allocation and Minors
Was traveling with the family a few weeks ago and got an interesting seating allocation.
Two adults, two children traveling on a 737-800, so 3-3 seating. The airline allocated us three seats together and then a separate one. Fair enough.
What got me though was that the names on the boarding cards meant that the separate seat was allocated to the six-year-old, which meant there was no legal way we could sit in the seats allocated to us. It's not difficult to swap the seats between the group, and put one of the adults in the separate seat, so this isn't the biggest issue in the world.
Am I overreacting in being bothered by this?