Posted on 11/18/2011 9:08:16 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Babies on airplanes. It's enough to make parents—and all the passengers around them—cry.
Parents are complaining of airline seating policies that create "baby ghettos" in the back of planes. Even worse, families are increasingly split up, leaving small children in middle seats in the company of strangers unless passengers arrange seat swaps on board.
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“I’m Jeffrey...I’m Four Years Old.”
Same as restaurants or movie theaters. I don’t necessarily blame the kids—I blame the crappy parents. Some will try to quiet them or at least comfort them when they don’t know how to clear their ears, but far too many just let ‘em scream.
I support a sound proof room at the back for idiotic parents who bring babies on planes. I was on a plane to San Francisco where a baby cried/screamed the full last hour of the flight and they did nothing. A whole bunch of people were ready to cause a ruckus but in this day and age you never know what can happen with the air marshals and Obama might fling some terror charges on you.
A nation that hates its children is a nation that isn’t going to be around much longer.
As a business traveler, I’d rather sit next to a child than an obese person who takes up 2.5 seats.
+1
Why? There's a perfectly good cargo hold.
How do you know the parents were not trying to calm the baby?
“Even worse, families are increasingly split up, leaving small children in middle seats in the company of strangers unless passengers arrange seat swaps on board.”
I don’t have children but do have a very handicap wife and I’ve never been in a situation where our seating assignment split us up and if no one else, the stewardess would work to make sure we sat together. I’ve never had to do this directly with other passengers.
As far as kids, I lament the security hassles and the poor customer services from airlines generally much more so than kids on a flight.
Because “business travelers” are all so svelte.
I once flew to Las Vegas on Southwest Airlines. During the flight instruction / comedy routine, the attendant said, “And for those of you traveling with small children...WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!??!”
Amen.
I remember - a classic.
and super F’n cool. We rarely sit in the back with you groundlings.
Someone recently asked me to switch seats on Southwest so the could sit with their wife.
The answer was a polite No. I paid extra so i could have an A check in and get an aisle seat on the port side.
If it was a parent with a child I would probably switch and be pissed off about it.
Whaaa!
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