How should these airline seats be used?

[badbaduncle]

Very differing opinions so just wanted to hear your views.
4 travellers going away (2 parents, 17 and 19yo.) 2 staying 2 weeks (1parent, 1 child), 2 staying 3 weeks (same)
4 return flights booked but due to availability they are not together. The 3 week trip has 'premium economy' flights, the 2 week trip economy flights. 10 hour flights.
1 parent is exceptionally tall, the other has mobility issues and arthritis.

1.The 2 week trippers think the fairest is that they get the PE seats on the way out as the 3 week trippers get them on the way back.
2.The parents think they should have them on way out as they have physical needs and this would be more comfortable
3.One parent and all teens thinks the other parent is annoying on a flight as they fall asleep and snore loudly and create embarrassment
4.The teenagers think that as the parents don't drink or watch the TV the seats are wasted on them.
5.The parent who organised the trip (to their home country) - and paid for it all -thinks everyone should shut up and be grateful and we can swap around a bit.

What do you think?

2

Parents get the premium seats (esp as they both have needs..tall and mobility) but mostly because they're the parents and they've paid for it.

The teens should be grateful they're going on a holiday someone else has paid for them to go on in the 1st place and should just be happy to be going full stop.

Parents, with disability and one being tall. Plus, they paid.

Kids prob won't use the TV screens. Quality and content is crap. Much better stuff on their own phones.

The adults get the good seats. End of.

5

This shouldn't be a big deal - it's premium economy. Not first / business.

If this was me I'd give up the premium seats to whichever two were most likely to annoy me during the flight and gratefully retire to economy with the other one to read my book in peace.

I assume this isn't really up for debate? The children are being beyond cheeky. Leave them at home?

haha - teens are entitled brats, sell their tickets and upgrade to business and go without them.

Ones who paid!

Dd is 20y and comes away with us and we pay. We are currently mid flight with a couple of hours stop over - hence wasting time on my phone.

We don't have PE this time but we do have two aisle seats. Dd is in the middle and is not complaining - she's just happy to be on a free holiday to somewhere nice. Dh is the tallest so always gets the aisle when we have one. I normally get next choice - ideally another aisle if we don't have extra leg room. I'm short BUT have arthritis and need to be able to stretch my legs a bit and get out to stand up occasionally.

If on a free holiday where she wasn't paying Dd would never dream of insisting on the better seats tbh though.