Originally Posted by
kmkord
+1
Lately, there seems to be an abundance of babies and young children in places that are innapproprate. Nice restaurants for example. My Husband and I get a babysitter for our two youngest when we want to go to a nice restaurant. We seem to always end up next to the family who couldn't possibly leave jr. for a couple hours. We have started remininding the maitre d that we do not want to sit near children.
I applaud you for what should be common sense. ^
When we are talking about FC tickets, the prices are so high that a mother could hire a full-time certified nanny for at least two to four weeks for the price differential between a transat FC and coach ticket. Or, for the price of the extra FC seat she could hire a nanny and buy two seats in coach for the nanny+baby to come along. That's what I call real luxury.
An FC seat for a 12 month old is just plain decadent. The baby won't notice the difference. The nice food and wine go unused. Others might feel righteously disturbed and someone who might actually need that seat and would appreciate the difference would not be able to book it because there is a baby in it. Not even the FF miles could be transferred to the parent's account, I guess.
Enough bashing. I rest my case.
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