So tired of this...
 

Wonder if DAL and AA are having these issues also because if they are, I really wish the press would report in those stories also.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/07/06/mom-has-carry-boy-flight-after-united-takes-his-seat-and-resells/454585001/

Here's an idea, don't re-post the link on a forum so more people click the link and they get more hits that justify continuing to report on this BS.

Good point...

https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net...20131004191501

If you learn to lower your expectations and share the same concern that the mucky-mucks do, you will both lower your blood PSI and increase your QOL considerably.

:)

Its a travel scam. I read about it on a message board for flyers. They were all saying how they do it. I don't have the link. Read about it a few years ago. This is roughly how it works.

1) Buy refundable ticket for small child.
2) Book child's seat right by yours.
3) Carry on child, but then don't give gate agent child's ticket.
4) Put kid in seat that you booked, but didn't scan.
5) If they try to give away seat, claim that you "paid for" the seat, but the gate agent must have scanned it wrong. Show it to gate agent and claim you handed it to them.
6) Blame the airline and make a big deal on social media.

It all works if the flight isn't full. It also works because the CSR won't question you carrying a small child assuming its a lap child. The goal is to block the seat from others. Someone tried this exact same scam on Delta and they caught it.

Delta Flight Kicks Family With Toddler Children Off Plane | Fortune.com

^^^^THIS if people stop reading it they will stop writing it. I cringe every time I see a story posted because more people will click on it. I don't even care what the story says I refuse to click the link.