Originally Posted by
global_happy_traveller
Nonetheless, one can argue two or more locked in a privacy moment may raise security related concerns too.....
Sure, which may explain this observance from earlier in this thread:
I was on a US airlines' flight a few days back, and a father (or other adult male caregiver) and his preschool child went into the bathroom. The FA was repeatedly banging on the door like crazy to try to get them out, after around three minutes. My guess is the FA doesn't have a lot of recent experience with how young children take time in the bathroom and how difficult it is for a full size adult to move about in a small plane lavatory to help a young child with the bathroom use process. The guy in the bathroom responded that "we'll be out soon" or something like that but it didn't placate the FA. By the time the two passengers came out of the bathroom, the other passengers seemed to realize why it took so long even as the FA said nothing but give them a stern look.
US airlines and their lavatory paranoia.
The father/adult care giver of the small child (who was somewhere between a toddler and a preschool aged child) was definitely of some non-European ethnic heritage ancestry of the "muslims and brown people" sort.
"Flying while brown"? Perhaps.