The latest airline to make sure families fly together is Frontier Airlines, which will seat kids next to parents by default.
The airline said Tuesday that youngsters under 14 will travel with at least one parent or guardian. Before check-in begins, seats will be automatically assigned according to the age of family members.
“We recognize the importance of seating children next to an adult with whom they are traveling,” Daniel Shurz, the senior vice president, commercial at Frontier Airlines, said in a statement.
“Since last October, we have been doubling down on our efforts and further enhancing our system for ensuring a parent is seated with any children under the age of 14 in their family group. The system is working well and we are receiving positive feedback.”
Low-cost airline Frontier often charges additional fees for services such as baggage and seat selection. According to the airline, customers can still select their own seats for a fee.
The new family seating policy comes a day after United Airlines revised its own family seat policy to offer a dynamic seat map that searches for available seats nearby at the time of booking to ensure children under 12 can sit next to an adult in their group for free.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) requested that U.S. airlines stop charging families to seat together.
Each airline has a different family seat arrangement. Delta Air Lines, for example, has its own dynamic seating plan that limits reservations to groups of three or more passengers and blocks certain rows in the main cabin. Southwest also announced in December that it would test a new pilot program that allows families with children to board first.
Breeze Airways, for its part, emphasized its policy of always enabling people traveling with children under the age of 12 to select free seats in the airline’s designated “family section.”