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Input: If you're flying this summer, be prepared to kiss your family goodbye at the gate. Even if they're on the same plane. 
  
 FILE - In this June 17, 2011, file photo, passengers crowd the kiosks to check in and print boarding passes at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. Airlines are setting aside more rows... (Associated Press) 
  
 Airlines are reserving a growing number of window and aisle seats for passengers willing to pay extra. That's helping to boost revenue but also making it harder for friends and family members who don't pay this fee to sit next to each other. At the peak of the summer travel season, it might be nearly impossible. 
  
 Buying tickets two or more months in advance makes things a little easier. But passengers are increasingly finding that the only way to sit next to a spouse, child or friend is to shell out $25 or more, each way. 
  
 With base fares on the rise _ the average roundtrip ticket this summer is forecast by Kayak.com to be $431, or 3 percent higher than last year _ some families are reluctant to cough up more money. 
  
 "Who wants to fly like this?" says Khampha Bouaphanh, a photographer from Fort Worth, Texas. "It gets more ridiculous every year." 
  
 Bouaphanh balked at paying an extra $114 roundtrip in fees to reserve three adjacent seats for him, his wife and their four-year-old daughter on an upcoming trip to Disney World. "I'm hoping that when we can get to the counter, they can accommodate us for free," he says. 
  
 Airlines say their gate agents try to help family members without adjacent seats sit together, especially people flying with small children. Yet there is no guarantee things will work out. 
  
 Not everyone is complaining. 
  
 Frequent business travelers used to get stuck with middle seats even though their last-minute fares were two or three times higher than the average. Now, airlines are setting aside more window and aisle seats for their most frequent fliers at no extra cost. 
  
 "The customers that are more loyal, who fly more often, we want to make sure they have the best travel experience," says Eduardo Marcos, American Airline's manager of merchandising strategy. 
  
 For everybody else, choosing seats on airline websites has become more of a guessing game. 
  
 To travelers who haven't earned "elite" status in a frequent flier program, flights often appear full even though they are not. These casual travelers end up paying extra for an aisle or window seat believing they have no other option. 
  
 But as flights get closer many of the seats airlines had set aside for those willing to pay a premium do become available _ at no extra cost. 
  
 "Airlines are holding these seats hostage," says George Hobica, founder of travel site AirfareWatchdog. "The seat selection process isn't as fair as it used to be." 
  
 Airlines are searching for more ways to raise revenue to offset rising fuel costs. In the last five years, they have added fees for checked baggage, watching TV, skipping security lines and boarding early. 
  
 Now they are turning to seats. 
  
 Since last summer, American, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines and United Airlines have increased the percentage of coach seats requiring an extra fee. Some _ like those on Delta, JetBlue Airways and United _ come with more legroom. Others, including those on American and US Airways, are just as cramped but are window and aisle seats near the front. 
  
 Allegiant Air and Spirit Airlines go one step further, charging extra for any advanced seat assignment. On Spirit, passengers who aren't willing to pay the extra $5 to $15 per flight, are assigned a seat at check-in. The computer doesn't make any effort to keep families together. 
  
 "It gets really difficult, unfortunately, because all you end up with is a lot of onesies and twosies," says Barry Biffle, Spirit's chief marketing officer. "If you want to sit together, we would highly encourage you to get seat assignments in advance." 
  
 Delta just launched a discounted "Basic Economy" fare on certain routes where it competes with Spirit that doesn't include advance seat assignments. 
  
 "Airlines have to be careful. They can only push this so far before they risk incurring the wrath of customers or the government," says Henry Harteveldt, co-founder of Atmosphere Research Group. 
  
 Summer brings passengers traveling in larger groups and fewer empty seats. Last July and August, a record 86.4 percent of seats were filled by paying customers. Planes will be "slightly fuller this year," says John P. Heimlich, chief economist at the industry's trade group, Airlines for America. Add in seats occupied by off-duty airline staff and passengers who redeemed frequent-flier miles, and on many flights there won't be a spare seat. 
  
 On a July flight from Dallas to San Francisco on American, a recent search showed only 28 of 144 coach seats available for passengers unwilling to pay extra. Of those, 21 were middle seats. There were five spots where a couple could sit together; groups of three or more were out of luck. 
  
 It was dramatically different for elite frequent fliers. They could pick from 75 seats including nine rows with four or more seats together. 
  
 Another flight _ New York to Los Angeles on Delta _ offered its most loyal fliers almost twice as many seats for free: 111 versus 60. 
  
 Booking through sites such as Expedia, Orbitz and Travelocity can add complications. If somebody inadvertently selects an elite seat or one requiring a fee, airline reservation systems won't hold a seat for him. Passengers should confirm selections with the airline. 
  
 For those unable to find two or more adjacent seats, new seat assignments can be snagged for free starting five days before departure as some elite fliers are upgraded to first class. Another block of seats is released 24 hours in advance when online check-in starts. Finally, gate agents can sometimes put families in seats set aside for disabled passengers or ask others to move. 
  
 If a young child is separated from his or her parent, "we just have to get it done" says Frontier spokeswoman Lindsey Carpenter. "Usually, people are pretty accommodating." 
  
 If all else fails, see if nearby passengers are willing to switch. There might actually be some chivalry left on planes. If not, offer to buy them a drink. 
  
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 Scott Mayerowitz can be reached at http://twitter.com/GlobeTrotScott. ||||| In a purely business sense, it’s easy to understand why airlines are more or less forcing passengers to pay fees for seat reservations on planes: more fees equal more profits. But the scheme is hated by families — and is likely to be hated even more by passengers who wind up sitting next to nervous, whiny kids who are rows away from their parents. That’s not good for business at all. 
  
 Earlier this week, New York Senator Charles Schumer released a statement urging U.S. airlines to do right by families and allow them to sit together in the same row without paying extra fees. The Senator was reacting to a recent Associated Press story detailing the rise of fees for window- and aisle-seat reservations on most planes — a trend that leaves only middle seats for those unwilling to pay the fee and potentially leaves parents far away from their children onboard aircraft. Among Schumer’s comments: 
  
 “Requiring parents to pay an additional fee to make sure their kids are sitting next to them and in sight is ridiculous and simply over the top … This ill-conceived ploy to foist more fees on travelers could have profound implications for the safety of children on airlines and it needs to be revisited.” 
  
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 The fees aren’t chump change. Schumer writes that a family of four could incur $200 in seat-reservation charges just so they could sit together on both legs of a round trip. He also points out that “children sitting alone in another part of the aircraft or with strangers” is potentially dangerous: 
  
 Additionally, these new pricing schemes raise safety concerns for children who are traveling out of direct sight of their parents. Will airlines that charge a premium for consecutive seating assignments assume liability for the safety of a child who isn’t seated next to their parent because of these onerous fees? 
  
 The nonprofit Consumer Travel Alliance (CTA), which works on behalf of travelers’ rights, has chimed in to criticize the rise of fees for seat reservations and baggage as well as the decrease in policies allowing passengers with special needs to board planes first. It isn’t just families that are affected by such policy changes: 
  
 “Families traveling with infants and toddlers often can’t avoid checking extra bags filled with everything from the many clothes changes needed for small children to diapers, toys, special blankets, and baby bottles,” says Charlie Leocha, director of the Consumer Travel Alliance. “Meanwhile, elderly passengers who lack the upper-body strength to get carry-ons into access overhead bins, also must check baggage and pay extra fees.” 
  
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 To address the situation, the CTA suggests that “voluntarily waiving all seat-reservation fees for children aged six and younger would be a good start. Then, gate agents and flight attendants could be encouraged to use common sense in dealing with families, making every effort to seat them together.” 
  
 The problem, from the business point of view, is that using common sense may decrease the amount of fees collected. In the CTA’s announcement, the organization notes that it “does not believe the airlines actually hate families.” And yet “their current policies do a poor job of reflecting that.” 
  
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 What the airlines seem to not realize is that while their policies may be increasing revenue, they are also making people hate flying. Is that good for business? 
  
 Tuttle is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @bradrtuttle. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME. |||||
Output:
From a business point of view, it makes sense to impose extra fees on airline passengers who want an aisle or window seat, admits Brad Tuttle at Time. But consider that the onerous money-making scheme is all but forcing parents to sit apart from their children during flights. "The scheme is hated by families—and is likely to be hated even more by passengers who wind up sitting next to nervous, whiny kids who are rows away from their parents," writes Tuttle. "That’s not good for business at all." Tuttle reviews the recent fallout over the airline plan, including an AP story and an angry reaction from New York Senator Charles Schumer, who wonders whether airlines will "assume liability for the safety of a child who isn't seated next to their parent because of these onerous fees." A travelers' rights group has called for an all-out ban on the practice, and Tuttle seems to agree: "What the airlines seem to not realize is that while their policies may be increasing revenue, they are also making people hate flying." Click for the full article.