Originally Posted by sitrus

I think that your example is not quite comparable to the one presented by the OP. A woman in a lunch setting will most likely have other options on where to pump, and it's a setting where people are sitting directly across from each other with the intent of sharing a meal. On a plane there is not many other places to go and as already pointed out its not always possible to pump whenever one would like. And it was the sound not the view the OP was concerned about.