Time for adult only flights

Pollycat

The most ridiculous thing is that the OP had no idea if this woman was indeed a single Mum or if she was claiming any benefits (other than the one that most people get - child benefit).

He bases his 'single mum' assumption on the fact that the woman was travelling alone - or at least was sat between 2 single men. :rotfl:

There are all sorts of different scenarios but clearly none of them occurred to the OP.

aileth

OP, if you think it's just children from single parent families that are badly behaved, you should come down to my street. Mostly two-parent families and they wouldn't go amiss off the set of Jumanji.

madrhino

Pollycat wrote: »

Welcome to the party! :hello:
You're not the only one who has taken offence at the OP's judgemental attitude.

And some of those people aren't single parents, some don't even have children.

I don't have any children myself but I do know how hard it can be. And I've nothing against single parents on benefits. My mum had her mum to help out with us, she would have found it very difficult to work without that help.
I haven't read the entire thread so I'm sure lots of people had something to say about his prejudice. Just read his comment and had to reply to it.

Air_Cooled_75

A few hours out of your life, boo bl00dy hoo. We took our nearly 1 year old to Majorca for his first birthday. He was a dream there and back, I saw the look of horror on the twenty something lads' faces sat near us on the way home. They actually remarked to us how great he had been.

When we went to Greece when he was 2 was a different story. He cried and cried on take off and landing due to the pressure in his ears but was fine during the flight itself. They let us off early on the outbound flight but the people sat around us were great and all tried to help consoling him. On the way back they did seem to sit the families with small children and babies together.

Try putting yourself in the shoes of a child, you were one once!

mgdavid

Air_Cooled_75 wrote: »

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Try putting yourself in the shoes of a child, you were one once!

...and in some ways, still is

dealer_wins

Nick_C wrote: »

Interesting that you say that you are going to disagree with my views, but then you proceed to prove me right!

1) On your recent journey, the airline took £2000 instead of £2050 for three people. An average loss of revenue of £8.33 per passenger. If the plane was full of families of that size, the airline lost £1690 on each one way flight, compared to a plane full of adults.

Now to someone who doesn't understand the airline business, £8.33 per passenger may not sound like much. However, BA's pre tax profit last year was £300m, and they carried around 38m passengers. So when they are only making a profit of £7.90 per passenger, the loss of revenue for carrying children instead of adults is considerable.

2) Re my comment about people being prepared to pay more for more comfort, you've indicated that you also plan to upgrade to premium economy.

QED

Children are much lighter than adults, saving a lot in fuel.

barryboris

hollydays wrote: »

Also , it's vile to call a two year old a brat. It's just a two year old, end of.

It's not end of at all. People are entitled to their opinions, not just you. If the kid was being a screaming brat, then he/she is a bratty child. End of.

Indie_Kid

I've encountered adults on trains who are worse than children. I sit in the quiet coach because I want to travel in peave. There's usually some gobby person making a lot of noise. Or there's a noisy child. Why sit in quiet coach f you're just going to be loud?

Zoelikesjam

I have to travel long haul. My family live in Australia and I visit once a year alone, and once a year with my five, yes FIVE children A two year old, two 5yrolds, 8years and 10. Our two year old tends to sleep, the other four plug themselves into the entertainment system and you hear not a peep out of them. If I didn't travel my children would miss out on their grandparents and aunty and uncle.
The kids are so used to flying now its neither here nor there, and we've never had any problems. The first time we flew I was terrified, the children were 4, 2 and two new borns. Our older two were golden, eldest watched a film on repeat for 23 hours lol. The babies were good, I just breast fed when I had to, and they slept most of the time in the travel cot thingy.
We are going again in a few weeks, but this time travelling first class....with all five children....sorry

emilybean

However bad it was for you.. multiply that feeling by 10 and that will be how the mother was feeling.