Time for adult only flights

Pollycat

spinybif wrote: »

Fraid not, engaged, daughter is single and working. Single parent as two young men sat either side desperately wanting to be somewhere else. On benefits - never met a single parent yet who hadn't found some way to screw money out of the working population.

Then you need to get out more.

Can't be bothered to reply to the OP's point with my opinion simply because of his appalling judgmental attitude.

melanzana

Give the kids something to keep them happy and contented on a flight. Not to mention the rest of us on the same flight aswell!

It is done more than we think!

should parents drug babies on long flights?

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21977785

spinybif_2

How pathetic, If all the adults were on one flight the parents with kids would be on the other, net result no difference in revenue to to the airline but a lot more satisfied customers.

Regarding complaing about foreign food, I CHOSE to travel and hence eat abroad, I didn't CHOOSE to sit near a screaming brat for 4 hours.

nat301

I am a single mother, work full time, Monday to Friday and have done since my child was 8 months old. Her father and I were engaged and he left me when my daughter was 7 months old and he gives me £80 a month so I am glad for the work full time even if it is stressful at times. I've never screwed anyone over.

I can't speak for everyone, I am sure some people aren't too bothered if their children act up on a plane but personally I find it difficult and I can't wait for it to be over. I remember a family holiday when my daughter was 3 to Mexico with my parents and sister. I was paranoid the whole way there and back and although she was quite well behaved, she didn't sleep either way so I chose not to either just in case. That was a stressful flight lol.

I just think people should try to appease the child and soothe it, but its not always possible. Child could have earache, be scared etc and there is little you can do.

Having said that, my worst flights (pre child) have all involved adults and drink.

Pollycat

spinybif wrote: »

How pathetic, If all the adults were on one flight the parents with kids would be on the other, net result no difference in revenue to to the airline but a lot more satisfied customers.

It's your reasoning that's pathetic.

For most destinations, an airline will run one flight per day or per week or whatever period fills their planes to profitable capacity.

Your so-called solution would either result in airlines having half-empty flights or flights for adult-only and adult-with-children less frequently.

Not everybody can choose to travel any day of their choosing.

szam_

spinybif wrote: »

How pathetic, If all the adults were on one flight the parents with kids would be on the other, net result no difference in revenue to to the airline but a lot more satisfied customers.

Of course there is a difference - if there are 3 flights a week and you limit one of those flights to adults only, and lets say the amount of 'adults only' that week make up 20% of the passengers, you're then screwing the other 80% of passengers with higher costs/less tickets, and adults only would be paying out of the ears because the airline may not be-able to make up the numbers to justify the cost of the flight (made the figures up, but given a general observation from a recent flight to and from Greece I'd say the figures roughly translate, there were very few couples/families without kids.)

This also isn't factoring in that for some 'adults only' travelers, the flight that day for such a flight isn't the best day for them to be flying - further reducing people who would demand such a flight.

Therefore adult only flight reverts back to normal flight in no time.

It's pretty common for people, even couples, to want the cheapest flights available to them, your demand for such a flight does harm to everyone and benefits no-one but yourself (assuming you're prepared to pay hugely inflated prices just to avoid kids for a few hours.)

Regarding complaing about foreign food, I CHOSE to travel and hence eat abroad, I didn't CHOOSE to sit near a screaming brat for 4 hours.

But you chose to fly on a short haul commercial airline, ergo, you have no say in who you are sat near - you only have the option when purchasing your tickets where to sit if you feel like paying for it.


Sorry, but your justification for such a flight is incredibly narrow-minded, not to mention how judgmental you come across.

hollydays

I took a shortish flight once during which a child, unused to being made to sit in a seatbelt screamed non stop for half the journey. I ended up with a splitting headache . But as a parent and grandparent I understand that two and three year olds will do this . There's not a great deal they can do , and I don't begrudge anyone a holiday- least of all anyone with a young child.

I can't respond directly to the ops post as its beneath contempt.
I'd rather sit next to a screaming child than a bigot.

bazzyb

spinybif wrote: »

Just got back from a wonderfully relaxing week in Greece until the flight home. Single mum, probably paying for holiday on her benefits, was accompanied by a 2 year old brat that managed to scream for most of the journey home. It was almost at the stage of 297 passengers willing someone to throw it out the emergency exit, no witnesses, no-one saw a thing !

Why don't airlines offer occasional adult only flights to popular holiday destinations ?

Simple solution, fly business class instead and avoid the riff-raff altogether.

SevenOfNine

spinybif wrote: »

Fraid not, engaged, daughter is single and working.

Rather sounds as if you may have been a single parent to your daughter at some point (unless of course you are 'engaged' to her father). Now yours is older you've forgotten what it's like to have young children perhaps.

Don't get me wrong, it must have been pretty unpleasant for passengers, but I'd include MOTHER and CHILD in that observation, (perhaps kids ears hurt from pressure in the plane?).

Interesting how you assume ALL the other passengers are as judgemental as yourself, or did you walk the plane with a questionnaire! If not, you speak for yourself not a planeload of passengers.

Searcher

I flew to Australia a couple of years ago and sat on the top deck of an A380. On that particular airline the economy section of the top deck is child (under 14) free zone. I have to admit it was nice.
The only problem is that the airline in question is Malaysia so not too sure if I'd fly with them again