United customers with children under 12 years old will start to see more adjacent seat options immediately, but the complete policy change will go into effect in early March.

The company did not respond to a request for comment on the DOT proposal. Frontier Like American, Frontier’s policy for fee-free family seating also applies to children 14 and under.

The Transportation Department is launching a dashboard to clarify which airlines seat children 13 and under next to an accompanying adult for no extra charge in the latest push by the Biden ...

Customers traveling with children under 12 will start to see more adjacent seat options immediately. The complete policy change will go into effect in early March.

United customers with children under 12 years old will start to see more adjacent seat options immediately, but the complete policy change will go into effect in early March.

“I had never anticipated that children would be out of sight, several rows away” from flight attendants, said Caroline Bourke, 45, whose 11-year-old son regularly flies alone on Air France.

But as these families learned, there's no guarantee that children 13 and younger will be seated with parents, caregivers, or other family members when they fly unless they pay a fee to reserve seats.