As others have said, I don't follow the logic here. On several flights when little Miss Stevei-d was under 2 yrs of age, cabin crew on BA and more so on EK requested politely requested that other pax moved to give her a seat. We never asked for this any certainly didn't expect it. We have some very cute pictures of her sleeping on the big EK cradle seats in J while we were eating our meals. I also recall one EK purser on a day flight taking her away to play with her while we ate out meals.

Where it goes wrong is when junior gets up in the night and crawls off. This happened only once that I recall, when she crawled under the curtain into F on EK and was eventually brought back after being found wandering round the F cabin by a cabin crew member with the comment "is this yours?"