Non-Stop Screaming/Crying Infant on International Flight
Mar 23, 2018, 10:16 am
#106
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I do not have an issue with a crying infant if the parents are trying. If they are sitting, sipping wine or sleeping while their children run amok, different story.
Mar 23, 2018, 2:01 pm
#107
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This is true, but there are several parents who feel that children get carte blanche for their antics or that the rest of us should feel privileged being in their presence.
I do not have an issue with a crying infant if the parents are trying. If they are sitting, sipping wine or sleeping while their children run amok, different story.
I do not have an issue with a crying infant if the parents are trying. If they are sitting, sipping wine or sleeping while their children run amok, different story.
Sometimes children need to hear it from someone other than their parents that they're being little brats.
Mar 24, 2018, 7:34 am
#108
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I actually wish I heard more crying babies, I am getting tired of these idiots travelling with their comfort rats (sorry, "dogs", although they are closer to rats) that just cry/yip the entire time. On my last flight despite the FA ordering them to put the dog in the carrier for takeoff/landing the lady just held the dog. On the way out the FA made a snarky remark to her, I thanked the FA and sent in a compliment/letter of thanks for the FA.
The comfort animal thing is annoying. I know a guy whose physician wife that certified her medical necessity for that nonsense. She just wants to travel with the mutt in the cabin. And her dog is rather spastic, but...quiet.
I have never heard barking or seen/heard of a dog crapping in flight. Moreover, no dog I’ve seen on board weighs enough to cramp the limited adjacent space like some really obese humans.
Mar 24, 2018, 9:15 am
#111
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On one trip in domestic J, the man in front of me on the window was either hearing impaired or not fluent in English or Spanish, when returning from the head I asked him if he would drop the shade. When I got no response I did what I’ve done before: took the emergency card unfolded, and wedged it into the seatback seam as a shade.
Mar 24, 2018, 9:21 am
#112
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Mar 24, 2018, 4:13 pm
#113
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Babies. Parents. Service animals. Carry-on pets. Barking. Window shades. Almost all devoid of AA specificity. This topic seems ready to be put to bed, and so we will do so.
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