Aircraft and babies

sturll

Driving home from work earlier i was listening to Jeremy Vine as i do most days and the debate was whether airlines should run 'adult only' flights.

Interested by this i looked online and found the following:

http://consumerist.com/5081977/airlines-considers-10-fee-for-sitting-away-from-babies

I guess the basic question is - if it were available would you pay extra for the 'privilege' of not having to be near a child when traveling on an aircraft?

markelock

rather emotive.

I'd rather pay $10 and not sit next to someone who snores, or talks rubbish, or smells, or puts their seat back, or who is generally inconsiderate.

sturll

markelock wrote: »

rather emotive.

I'd rather pay $10 and not sit next to someone who snores, or talks rubbish, or smells, or puts their seat back, or who is generally inconsiderate.

Id rather pay $10 to be able to get away with throwing something at the person on every flight who never puts their seat back up, or their window blind open on landing and has to be told personally.

markelock

the list goes on! Does the $10 cover one single throw, or a number of throws throughout the duration of the flight?

I'll add people who don't like children. there's something deeply disturbing about that as a general concept, which is multiplied ten fold at 36,000ft

sturll

markelock wrote: »

the list goes on! Does the $10 cover one single throw, or a number of throws throughout the duration of the flight?

I'll add people who don't like children. there's something deeply disturbing about that as a general concept, which is multiplied ten fold at 36,000ft

Thats absolutely true!

POSSETTE

bring em on pls....

lisyloo

I'll add people who don't like children

I like well behaved children.
I don't like ones that jump up and down on plane seats and hurt my kness (or continually kick me in the back at cinemas).

Surely it's not deeply disturbing not to want to be kicked continually??

markelock

not at all.

but surely the parents should be controlling those children?

tinkerbell84

markelock wrote: »

not at all.

but surely the parents should be controlling those children?

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

as if they ever do!

they gaze at their little darlings as they run riot and glare at you if you dare to suggest they keep them under control.

nothing worse than a long haul flight full of hoardes of marauding wild kids!

or babies that scream

so yes, I'd pay for a flight without kids.

ynot2005

babies scream and cry on flights and that not going to change, but watching a father do nothing for an hour except read his book while his child let out the most incredible high pitched noise i have ever heard made my blood boil, and mother was sat on another row!!

luckily for the japanese student who was sat next to the baby, the mother eventually decided to sit next to her child and sort it out.

im not keen on mothers who take the attitude of letting there children scream and dont care about other passengers, they are imune to the noise and dont care if it upsets others, i had one father start bouncing up and down on his seat hitting a rattle on the seat infront to let everone else know that the baby crying is the least of our worries

Minniethemoocher

Having flown with a baby who did nothing but cry for 2.5 hours, no matter what I did to try to soothe her, sometimes babies do just cry, and despite, feeding, changing, and cuddling there is nothing that you can do to stop them...so pleased don't be too hard or judgmental on the poor parents, who are suffering too.....