Originally Posted by
BoeingGuy
I know that everyone has the right to travel on any available flight at a given time of the day, but I personally think that it is rude to bring your baby on a redeye. I just got off a LAX-ATL redeye and there was a baby one row behind me that cried for 30 minutes straight in the middle of the flight. It is hard enough to get decent sleep on this rather short route, but having a screaming baby doesn't help the cause one bit.
I understand that babies need to fly places just like the rest of us, but please, do me/us a favor and take your screaming baby on day flights.
Now I'll try to catch a nap in the B25 skyclub, despite the rather loud morning patrons.
Rant over.
I'm the parent of an infant. Was the parent trying to do something to calm the baby down? Half an hour sounds like a long time unless there was something really wrong with the baby. I often encounter babies on TPAC flights and the parents have no clue how to calm the baby down. Very annoying.
Maybe they didn't have any choice but to take the redeye, such as they were boxed in by an international itinerary or other scheduling problem.
It might be somewhat rude to bring the baby on the redeye assuming they had a choice, but IMO the rudest thing would be to take a baby in BE. I would never do this.