United’s New Family Seating Policy

I hope they'll fix this everywhere.

It's really annoying when they want me to change the seat I paid a premium for because some family wants to sit together and didn't bother paying for it.

Especially Vueling Airlines in Spain does this all the time and I don't use them anymore. Ryanair is just as cheap but they respect what you pay for.

Primarily a software story:

> The biggest impediment has been technology investment, to make assignable seats available when young children are on a reservation with adults or to program automatic seat assignments to populate together in that case.