Would you move seats to allow families sit together on flights?

Yeah I don't think you go from nice to that nasty that quickly for something that mundane unless it's habit. That's allowing for travel+kids+stress.

Was on a flight to Pakistan from Heathrow, seat prebooked, 2nd seat in from the aisle, wide body aircraft. No problem, Arrived on the plane and made my way to my seat row. One burka clad lady already seated on other aisle seat, so I made myself comfortable in seat nr 2. Then another Burka clad lady took the seat between me and Burka clad Lady Nr 1, Still OK...then passenger Nr 4 arrived and sat on the aisle seat beside me. She also happened to be clad in a Burka. So there I was, one lone paleface, surrounded by Black Burka's. There was a lot of muted muttering going on before an elderly Pakistani gentleman, with a white hair and a long flowing beard approached me and asked if I would like to change my seat? Knowing Pakistani customs, I said sure, no problem. So he said "what kind of seat would you like? Take your pick..window, aisle, nearer the front or back?" So I said an aisle seat would be nice. One moment, he said, and sure enough, a moment later he came back and ushered up the row to where an aisle seat had been vacated for me. Under the circumstances, changing seats for me was not a problem on that ocassion.....😀

I've since amended my comment Flinty, have a look again. Of course if you fly often enough, you are going to meet problem passenger's sitting next or near to you,,,the young kid sitting on its mothers lap who makes life hell for you by kicking the back of your seat, or starts shoving stuff out between the seats into your armrest etc. All the while the mother smiling lovingly at her baby.. The overweight passenger who sits in the middle seat and commandeers the lions share of the available space. The passenger who falls asleep and snores louder than the noise the earphones can hide.....the list is endless really. So when you are first in your seat, ( early boarder ) then you always look at who your fellow traveler's are going to be as they walk along the aisle, tickets in hand as they look at the seat Nrs. in one case when I arrived at my booked seat, I found the window seat ( my seat) taken by a young lad, with his father in the middle seat, When I showed the father my ticket, and pointed out my seat, he said, Ah sure he is only a young lad, and its his first time flying, can you leave him there? So I did.

So Vogue made it all up?

What the f*&k is wrong with these vacuous cretins ffs.

I'd say it's more that she thought she'd get sympathy and is backtracking now that she's been criticised.

How could anyone think that's a joke?

To be fair the comments said about the kids were uncalled for.

They were flying from Gibraltar to the uk, not sure if you have ever done it but there isn’t any business class.

and again not sure what your experience of business class is but it’s not what she described in terms of the seating arrangement so my assumption is that it was a regular Ryanair / easy jet scenario

But the event never happened to begin with so she might as well said she was going to the moon.

And using them as props in ads to advertise washing powder.

Agree. Crotch goblins is the pc term.