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LHR-HUB
I agree. Although it makes no difference to F, I have for a number of years wondered, "why isn't there seperate 'Club' and 'Business Class' cabins.
Business Class = people generally on business who want to work, sleep, read quietly etc.
Club = Those who are travelling with kids and/or on their way to/from Lions tours (who, in my experience last month like to ensure there is no beer or wine left in the Galley!)
I appreciate that there is limited space for bassinets so there will sometimes be a need for younger ones to be in all cabins, but I do object when there are 5 year olds+ running around the cabin, bumping into people and generally disturbing other pax while mum or dad (or granny) either watch a movie and ignore them, or worse, smile in a "isn't he/she sweet" sort of way just after the little ***'s just woken me up for the 5th time!
I don't know how it would work in practise, but it must be quite simple to ensure that kids are all in the same cabin.
I wonder if it's possible to show where kids are seated in MMB, so they could be avoided when selecting a seat.
I am not anti-kids BTW. I often travel with mine, sometimes in J, but I or my wife always ensure they're not disturbing other pax.
I agree 100%. ^
Unfortunately working at the airport you see every day the parents who couldn't care less what their darlings do and who they disturb, inconvenience, injure, etc, etc. It's not the children, they're often too young to know any different. But parents need to take more responsibility for them and far too many couldn't give two hoots.
A child should not be watching a DVD on take off - this is against safety procedures and the parents should have stopped it immediately. The parents/nanny of this child were clearly selfish people who cared about nobody but themselves. I would have said something to the crew, even if it was after the event, so as to ensure that wasn't a recurrence on landing.
BA, or any airline operating 747's, have an ideal solution to this at least in CW. Make the upstairs cabin child free. This always used to be the case from discussions I've had with colleagues at LGW. I was told due to safety reasons that infants/small children could bounce off the emergency slide should they be required.
The number of comments recently made in the thread about the PHX incident highlighted just how steep this slide is. I can understand parents wanting to be upstairs for the quiet, intimate feel of the cabin but surely when you have children they should be your first consideration, not yourself.
And don't get me started on strollers
You get far more turn up at the gate full of duty free shopping and hand baggage than you do with children in them.
