[jimworcs]

Wow, thanks for taking the time Troy.. that sounds a very plausible scenario. But this my point... I would like a regulation which states that an airline will always prioritise a child 14 and under to sit next to the accompanying adult. To achieve this the following in your scenario would have to give up their seats

Couples obviously want to sit together so they reserved 2 seats side by side. A single business guy sees a row of 3 open and then the single seat next to the couple. Which one do you think he's gonna choose? He chooses a single in an open row of 3. This continues until the alotted number of seats, roughly 110, can be assigned.

There are a number of complaints about this on this site, which must be a tiny number of the overall times this happens. It should be given the same attention as the rights of people with disabilities.