# Flight booking hack that seems brilliant to me - am I overlooking anything?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-booking-hack-that-seems-brilliant-to-me-am-i-overlooking-anything/810955>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-booking-hack-that-seems-brilliant-to-me-am-i-overlooking-anything/810955 "2018-03-21T12:22:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-booking-hack-that-seems-brilliant-to-me-am-i-overlooking-anything/810955/41 "2018-03-22T00:40:49Z")

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> [@Icarus](#):
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> But, it is also the case that airlines often don’t make an effort to put families together,

why should they? “family” isn’t some magic sacrosanct word which should get everyone in the vicinty to bend over backwards.

> [@ZonexandScout](#):
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> Strategy? Brilliant?
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> I’m not trying to threadshit, but people have been doing this for well over 45 years.

But it’s a “hack!” like the article I read about Soylent a couple of years ago; it was titled “Hacking Soylent.” Y’know what their “hacks” were? _Adding berries to it._

yeah, real hacking there :rolleyes:

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> OTOH, I have FREQUENTLY been asked to switch seats (asked to take a middle seat or window seat so family members can sit together) and I basically tell them to go fuck themselves. I put a lot of effort into getting an aisle seat (I’m 6’2") and not interested at all in trading for a crappy seat.

how dare you. don’t you know other people’s children are supposed to be the most important things in _your_ life?

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**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-booking-hack-that-seems-brilliant-to-me-am-i-overlooking-anything/810955/42 "2018-03-22T01:00:09Z")

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Nm

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-booking-hack-that-seems-brilliant-to-me-am-i-overlooking-anything/810955/43 "2018-03-22T01:38:12Z")

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> [@Icarus](#):
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> Look at my user name. I spend about 20 hours a week flying, so I am familiar with booking.

Icarus isn’t a name I’d connect with a _frequent_ flyer… 😉

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