So in looking at flights delta is the cheapest, but delta also wont allow us to select seats at that price point. Fair enough and I would rather not ask people to change seats (they paid for them and it's rude of me to ask). It'd be me, my 4 yr old daughter, hubby and 12 yr old son. My 12 yr old and hubby are fine on their own, although DS is a chatterbox but he'd likely play his DS....just more likely to try to chat with those hes sitting around. My 4 yr old on the other hand needs help like any 4 yr old. Heres the hiccup...hubby wants to save money, we've done frontier and not picked seats and were fine ect ect. I wwould like to pick seats for me and my 4 yr old to make sure we are together at least. My solution is I reserve 2 flights at the higher main cabin rate and pick mine and DD seats together and then hubby and DS book flights (same plane and time just separate reservation from DD and I) at the basic economy price for them and have them check in at 24 hrs and arrive to the gate extra early in hopes theyll be seated closer together, and if not...like I said DS can handle himself (heck hed probably love it lol) Does this sound like a reasonable plan? I'm trying to keep both hubby and me happy since he wants to be cheap and I want the saftey net.