Originally Posted by tangey

Looking purely from the outside (i.e. a non-status holder), I can't understand why the status system applies to children at all.

Isn't it supposed be to rewarding the potential status holder for regularly selecting and paying for flying on a particular airline ? since a 2 yr old, for example, is hardly selecting and paying for his/her flights, shouldn't the reward be going to the person booking the flight on behalf of the child ?, it is that person that is showing the loyalty, the child is simply sitting where he/she was told, might as well be on a potty or a merry-go-round, for all a 2 yr old cares.

The child on 18 (or whatever the airline age is), becoming an adult, I suppose *MIGHT* continue to use the same airline, but given that his/her flight pattern was previously purely dictated by where his/her guardian was going, who is to say that the child-now-adult will even be flying regularly at all, or indeed be interested in flying to destinations served by the airline that granted status based on the parents flying habits ?

I suppose it is ultimately rewarding the parent/guardian by extension.