President Joe Biden released a tweet from his official X account (formerly known as Twitter) calling on all airlines to offer “fee-free family seating.”
“You ought to be able to fly with your child — and sit next to them — without paying an additional fee,” he wrote Feb. 5 on X.
This isn’t the first time he’s told airlines in the U.S. to stop charging travelers more to book seats together with their children. Last March, he announced a new family seating dashboard available on the United States Department of Transportation website that shows consumers which airlines offer fee-free family seating, and which ones don’t.
Some airlines had already made changes to their policies before the March announcement, such as United, which made it easier for families traveling with children under age 12 to find and select multiple seats together. Frontier also changed its policy in February, ensuring that children under a certain age will always be paired with at least one family member.
