Originally Posted by Amanjunkie

Thanks everyone for your replies. It's good to know that it's not necessarily disallowed by CX and it's also good to know how other passengers feel about it. We certainly wouldn't want to cause any disruption or annoyance to our fellow F cabin travelers, and we definitely wouldn't dream of having the nanny bring our children up from economy. We would, of course, fetch them ourselves, if we chose in the end to bring them up at all.

In our flights, currently there are no other seats taken in F class so availability was not the issue of having our children and the nanny fly economy. As I mentioned before, our 4 year-old daughter would feel very uncomfortable being isolated in a CX F or J class seat. It would have been fine if CX didn't re-design their cabins, but with the layouts how they are now, it would not be a comfortable experience for her being "alone".

Yes, we can easily add our 1 1/2 year-old son to one of our tickets as a "lap infant", but the issue is he still experiences discomfort with the change in cabin pressure during take-off and landing, and we would not wish his acting out his discomfort onto our fellow F cabin passengers whether we paid for him to be in first class or not. Not that we feel great about that happening in economy either, but given what our neighbors would have paid for their seats, we would have to give preference to them.

As for the idea that our children shouldn't be allowed to sit with us for part of the flight since we "didn't pay F tickets for them", I can understand how some people might feel that way, though I find exceptions can be made when it concerns very young children. I do understand about not causing disturbances or invading the space of others, and certainly I find it distasteful when children are allowed to run around the cabins, whether a "F ticket" was paid for or not. But if they are sitting or sleeping quietly with us in our own space and they're not the cause of a cabin shortage of Krug, and they are not taking up another seat or dining with us, then if this was someone else, I personally wouldn't have a problem with it.

Still, I think we would only bring our children to sit with us if the cabin was otherwise empty and given that the cabin crew didn't have any objections so as to not risk any annoyances to anyone else sitting in F.