Bad news for baby haters!
 

I read this in the Greek Newsletter:

For the next 6 months, all babies up to an age of 2 years will travel free on domestic flights!

As UMs? :D

I thought they did anyway, and just paid the taxes. Or do you mean no charge whatsoever?

Not that it'll make much difference I suppose: "Oooh, we can save an extra 12 Euro so we CAN take little baby with us on holiday rather than leaving it at home for a week". I don't imagine flights will suddenly be full of babies because of this.

Have much fun... Will probably sound like this:

Inflight Sound Swiss

But fortunately the flights are short to the islands.

They are copying the BA promo for kids fly free ;):D

I flew A3 TXL-ATH last week and there were tons of babies, toddlers on board and a whole class of 10-12 year olds.

The 3 hour flight was fine, but I did manage to get a nasty throat infection. It may have been because I was surrounded by kids.

Purely from an epidemiological point of view, your statement could be considered the result of reduced mental and cognitive capacity. ;)

PS Please notice the smiley, and just leave medicine to medics.

A3 in summer and airlines in general are kindergarden... don't talk about the lake of education and the behavior of parents (greeks are noisy, so are their kids). No polemic here, just facts.

Most of us probably don't hate babies. I love babies but don't really care to be seated near one for a long flight. Actually, babies can be quite good. It's their older siblings that can be real pains in the hienie. Especially when accompanied by inattentive, inconsiderate parents.

I DO make a point of complimenting well behaved children, and their parents, at the end of a flight or even in a restaurant.

Agree, it's about education and parenting...

Dont generalise you have been brought up on it before !!! :td::td:

Sorry, but i will not change my mind because you do not agree.
I confirm : noisy people and too many kids in some planes to some distinations. I don't say more, just that i love kid, but my limit is my journey to be peaceful.

Its pure ignorance on your part to label a nation at being something which is actually found in all cultures around the globe. If you hold those narrow views then keep them to yourself and not generalise about nationalities on a forum such as this. It is disrespectful to other members and incorrect to tarnish everyone with the same brush. As you have been told before :td:

Folks, a reminder that we have a report icon (the red triangle) available to you if there's something in a post that you object to, which sends a notification to the mod team. Having looked through the content of this thread, I don't believe there's anything in here that breaches FT rules, but the content of some posts is dangerously turning away from debate and towards the person.

I'm aware this is a subject that has been broadly discussed before and it does engender high octane debate sometimes. That's fine, and what FT should be about, but let's keep everything within the rules by not becoming personal and, particularly, 'piling-on' by repeating the same point ad-nauseum.

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