Originally Posted by
jrhmdtraum
dmonkey
Again, Check with your stews and ask them how many injured kids they have seen.
I don't have a flight until Friday but I'll ask the FAs then. Personally, I've never seen a turbulence injury on any flight I've been on.
I did some searches trying to find statistics, and I did find this Qantas instance, which seems to be the most recent one on Google News:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...72-661,00.html
Seems like this Qantas event was fairly newsworthy. Google News shows that there are 334 articles worldwide about this one event. Why is this getting so much international coverage if babies are being knocked into comas on flights every day because they are not properly restrained?
Children were injured, but so were other passengers and crew too. Read about the elderly woman waiting to get into the lav.
Originally Posted by
jrhmdtraum
As to the adults, if they can't afford it, they shouldn't fly.
Huh? Doesn't not flying (assuming driving is the alternative) increase the chance that adults will die in an auto wreck?
Originally Posted by
jrhmdtraum
Guess that is why I buy first class tickets
I don't get it. Why don't you spend the extra money subsidizing seats for babies that are flying, if it will really make them that much safer?