Originally Posted by Analise
A generalization? Absolutely. But if she weren't part of some kind of norm, the initial FA would not have told her that she could take a second seat on an overbooked flight. Of course both the FA and mother could have been isolated cases.
If we are blessed to have children, we will do what our parents did when we were growing up. We didn't fly until we were old enough to know how to behave in public. Age 6 or so.
I won't put a baby through the ordeal of flying.
I wonder how she got the seat onto the plane in the first place if the child wasn't ticketed. EVERYTIME I take my kids (just turned 5 & 1.5) on a plane the first thing the GA asks is if they are ticketed. And if they are not the car seat or stroller gets gate checked.
The above taken with the FA's reluctance to have the car seat removed leaves me with a strong feeling that there is a back story here.