Originally Posted by wimpypipsqueak
I'm beginnning to think that the rear downstairs C seats on 747s are a bad idea. Yet another family with screaming kids today. Parents with 2 kids, one a lap child.
The airlines do parents a great
favor by allowing them to save a little money by having a child in their lap. However I have seen too many parents abuse this by allowing their child to display atrocious behavior. It seems to me that most often it is those lap children who are the most disurbing to other passengers. Especially in the case of C or F passengers, they have invested a significant amount and have the reasonalble expectation of a restful flight. It seems to me that the airlines provide no penalty for parents with ill behaved children.
In the case wimpypipsqueak mentioned earlier, one of the children was a 1P and so had obviously done a significant amount of travel. If people complained to the purser on earlier flights, would it be unreasonable for United to have some provision prohibiting that father from bringing children under a certian age on UA flights?
United might argue that they would risk loosing that 1K fathers business. However I ask why all of the passengers in the C cabin (or even y for that matter) should have to put up with this father and his ill behaved kids on many flights?
Originally Posted by wimpypipsqueak
The main purpose for resurrecting this thread is that I was woken from a deep slumber (after taking a few temazepam), in a start when I realised that there was a finger up my nostril. Yes - you guessed.
One of the kids shoved a finger up my nose and woke me up.
I'm usually very tolerant, but told the father that he'd better control his child, and that it was completely inappropriate to allow them to pick the noses of other pax.
I am not a parent myself, but there is NO excuse for ill behaved children. Growing up my parents would never have tolerated us kids disturbing other passengers on a flight, no matter what the age. United should have some policy on this that has real teeth. Perhaps even some sort of lap child fee that would always be refunded unless the purser reported repeated passenger disturbance. (Actually I can see how this would be very hard to enforce. However I think that an airline has many, many more business and leisure passengers than parents with children. It therefore stands to reason that the airline has a greater obligation to its business and leisure passengers than parents with poor mannered children.)