Travelling with Children in First Class
Mar 9, 1999 | 10:02 am
#31
Commander Catcop
Join Date: May 1998
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OMNI for all: If anyone here will take me to a Dave & Busters I'll buy the first round.
This is something I have to see.
I guess a place like this proves the saying from Peter pan that it's good "No to grow up!" I certainly believe this is good. (that's why they invented Disney World and DisneyLand!)
Never got in the video game crazy (although I love Jeopardy) and most of the other things that the 80's were assoicated with.
If there was a Dave & Busters airline nobody would be in any condition to any work!
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CATMAN
This is something I have to see.
I guess a place like this proves the saying from Peter pan that it's good "No to grow up!" I certainly believe this is good. (that's why they invented Disney World and DisneyLand!)
Never got in the video game crazy (although I love Jeopardy) and most of the other things that the 80's were assoicated with.
If there was a Dave & Busters airline nobody would be in any condition to any work!
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CATMAN
Mar 9, 1999 | 10:33 am
#32
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I am not a POMPUS ARROGANT SNOB, but my two little girls are. In FC, they constantly decry the poor seats, lack of decent beverages and the utterly rude behavior of some of the grown-ups. In fact, sometimes they get so upset about it that they start to uncontrolably cry...
Mar 9, 1999 | 10:47 am
#33
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OMNI to Catman (or any other interested parties):
If you can get to Chi-town for a weekend (the only time I'm there), I'd be happy to have you as my guest for some alien-shooting, race-car driving, virtual snow-boarding fun at D&B (a far cry from the video arcades of our youth!)
See you in Boston...
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Regards,
- Anna
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If you can get to Chi-town for a weekend (the only time I'm there), I'd be happy to have you as my guest for some alien-shooting, race-car driving, virtual snow-boarding fun at D&B (a far cry from the video arcades of our youth!)
See you in Boston...
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Regards,
- Anna
[This message has been edited by AnnaS (edited 03-09-99).]
Mar 9, 1999 | 11:57 am
#35
Commander Catcop
Join Date: May 1998
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Anyone who makes Matt's daughters (or any F-T-er's children) CRY should be removed from the plane with frequent flyer miles taken away.
But there are meanies out there. And some people so mean that they would make me cry (and I rarely do!)
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CATMAN
But there are meanies out there. And some people so mean that they would make me cry (and I rarely do!)
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CATMAN
Mar 13, 1999 | 3:37 am
#36
Join Date: Jan 1999
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I tought I would just share the contents of this fax which arrived this morning (Saturday) from BA:
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"Dear Mr Merry
We note your recent comments (Internet Air Travel Forum) regarding children travelling with BA, and in view of this thought you would be interested in the attached changes, effective today."
"Your wife hase been given the ideal Mother's Day gift by British Airways - a new look service designed to make flying more fun for her children.
An we know it'll work because it has deen designed bt youngsters themselves.
During the last year, hundreds of tiny ears, eyes, tatse buds and bottoms have put the airline's ideas to the test in secret trials all over the country.
School dinner halls, children's summer camps and family houses up and down the country [United Kingdom] have all been used as test beds for the new products and services.
The airline's researchers even shadowed parents and children on their family holiday noting down every comment from check-in to the flight itself and final arrival.
Nothing was overlooked from the cutlery to the baggage tags, the ticker wallets to the lounges and the results are flying high from TODAY.
Out goes the children's rucksacks and bum bags, and in comes a new "Treasure Chest" full of toys and games from London's famous Hamleys toy store, such as magnetic drafts, 3D foam jigsaw puzzles and illuminous drawing boards, which children can help themselves to during the flight.
Meal trays were given the thumbs down by the under 12s, and new sturdy picnic boxes which can be taken off the flight and used in the classroom have been introduced. The children even came up with the idea of including a clever cutlery holder which could double up as a pen and pencil case at the end of the flight.
British Airways carries more than a million globe-trotting tots on its flights around the world every year with the number rising more than any other market.
Of these 130,000 are travelling alone.
For these youngsters, the airline is now offering a new Skyflyers Solo service which starts from the moment they arrive at the airport to the moment they are handed over at the end of the flight.
More volunteers from around the airline are also being trained to join the team of British airways in-flight aunties offering childcare in the clouds to the airline's young flyers.
The new look Skyflyers children's service is available on all British Airways flights around the world free of charge."
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Well thank you very much BA. Just one question, who is the Father of my wifes children? It's news to me she has any!
Please also not that BA doesn't have to be Politically Correct - "in-flight aunties"!
MF
[This message has been edited by Merry (edited 03-13-99).]
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"Dear Mr Merry
We note your recent comments (Internet Air Travel Forum) regarding children travelling with BA, and in view of this thought you would be interested in the attached changes, effective today."
"Your wife hase been given the ideal Mother's Day gift by British Airways - a new look service designed to make flying more fun for her children.
An we know it'll work because it has deen designed bt youngsters themselves.
During the last year, hundreds of tiny ears, eyes, tatse buds and bottoms have put the airline's ideas to the test in secret trials all over the country.
School dinner halls, children's summer camps and family houses up and down the country [United Kingdom] have all been used as test beds for the new products and services.
The airline's researchers even shadowed parents and children on their family holiday noting down every comment from check-in to the flight itself and final arrival.
Nothing was overlooked from the cutlery to the baggage tags, the ticker wallets to the lounges and the results are flying high from TODAY.
Out goes the children's rucksacks and bum bags, and in comes a new "Treasure Chest" full of toys and games from London's famous Hamleys toy store, such as magnetic drafts, 3D foam jigsaw puzzles and illuminous drawing boards, which children can help themselves to during the flight.
Meal trays were given the thumbs down by the under 12s, and new sturdy picnic boxes which can be taken off the flight and used in the classroom have been introduced. The children even came up with the idea of including a clever cutlery holder which could double up as a pen and pencil case at the end of the flight.
British Airways carries more than a million globe-trotting tots on its flights around the world every year with the number rising more than any other market.
Of these 130,000 are travelling alone.
For these youngsters, the airline is now offering a new Skyflyers Solo service which starts from the moment they arrive at the airport to the moment they are handed over at the end of the flight.
More volunteers from around the airline are also being trained to join the team of British airways in-flight aunties offering childcare in the clouds to the airline's young flyers.
The new look Skyflyers children's service is available on all British Airways flights around the world free of charge."
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Well thank you very much BA. Just one question, who is the Father of my wifes children? It's news to me she has any!
Please also not that BA doesn't have to be Politically Correct - "in-flight aunties"!
MF
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Mar 13, 1999 | 4:19 am
#37
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... the very moment I become grandfather and start flying with my grandchildren I will change my habbits and preferred carrier form StarAlliance (UA) to One world (BA) ...
Mar 13, 1999 | 8:50 am
#38
Commander Catcop
Join Date: May 1998
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Leave it to B-A to address the issue of children on planes first. That was a very interesting Fax, Merry.
And B-A did the right approach. It's a service for children so you have children test it out: not childless adults who have no idea what boys and girls need.
It's also interesting that B-A is reading FlyerTalk... someone must have told them about it and they're checking it out.
Now there are some adults who are like children are heart who should have games on board flights when they don't have to do work (like internet access and airplane simulators!)
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CATMAN
[This message has been edited by Catman (edited 03-13-99).]
And B-A did the right approach. It's a service for children so you have children test it out: not childless adults who have no idea what boys and girls need.
It's also interesting that B-A is reading FlyerTalk... someone must have told them about it and they're checking it out.
Now there are some adults who are like children are heart who should have games on board flights when they don't have to do work (like internet access and airplane simulators!)
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CATMAN [This message has been edited by Catman (edited 03-13-99).]
Mar 13, 1999 | 7:04 pm
#39
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"bum bags" eh? Well, I guess that figures - after all, they couldn't very well use the American appellation of "fanny packs" in England, considering the slang conflict. " . . . separated by a common language" indeed.
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Mar 14, 1999 | 1:47 am
#40
Join Date: Jan 1999
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Catman: I am not sure about 'BA' reading FlyerTalk. But there is a very kind, considerate, attentive individual at the Premier Desk who reads it - Hi Carol!
[That should be worth a few freebies ]
Counsellor: Great Britain or even the United Kingdom please. England is so devisive. Mind you they have a different word for it in Scotland, so perhaps you were right in the first place.
MF
[That should be worth a few freebies
]Counsellor: Great Britain or even the United Kingdom please. England is so devisive. Mind you they have a different word for it in Scotland, so perhaps you were right in the first place.
MF
Mar 14, 1999 | 11:33 am
#41
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Location: Cambridge, MA
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hmm... some brownie points for our friend Mr Merry...
No wonder he gives me such an earful each time he thinks I may be thinking of saying anything the least bit critical of BA... I thought he was going to stop speaking to me over the lounge issue.
(Incidentally, my companion and I were courteously welcomed at the Admirals Club lounges in Boston and Miami during our recent jaunt - and there were oneworld signs on display in both clubs)
No wonder he gives me such an earful each time he thinks I may be thinking of saying anything the least bit critical of BA... I thought he was going to stop speaking to me over the lounge issue.
(Incidentally, my companion and I were courteously welcomed at the Admirals Club lounges in Boston and Miami during our recent jaunt - and there were oneworld signs on display in both clubs)
Mar 15, 1999 | 8:59 am
#42
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: St Paul 02/04...not flying Delta
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I so wanted to avoid posting on this thread, but yesterday's flight was such that I need to vent.
There were a ton of kids on the flight. Not a complaint about any of them. Just the mother in the seat in front of me. I am certainly not a prude, but I think if you are going to nurse your baby on the plane, you should be a bit more discreet. Like maybe she should have sat by the window and let the father sit on the aisle. The young man on the other side of the aisle saw more than he expected to.
I hope the kid grows up with more sense than the parents.
There were a ton of kids on the flight. Not a complaint about any of them. Just the mother in the seat in front of me. I am certainly not a prude, but I think if you are going to nurse your baby on the plane, you should be a bit more discreet. Like maybe she should have sat by the window and let the father sit on the aisle. The young man on the other side of the aisle saw more than he expected to.
I hope the kid grows up with more sense than the parents.
Mar 15, 1999 | 9:22 am
#43
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OMNI: SNA-ORD flight I talked to the FA most of the flight. One thing that came up was strangest things that have happend to her on a plane.
Her story: The FA asks a woman in Buisness Class with a lap child to place her child seat in the overhead bin before takeoff. Then when she is doing the final passanger count, there are no "laps" reported. She asks the mother where her child was. You got it! She put the child in the overhead bin in the child seat. When the FA goes to get the child from the bin, the seat (and the child) are missing. They make an announcement over the PA asking if anyone has seen a baby in a child seat. Now for the truely amazing, another Business passanger (a 1K according to her) rings the call button and says he moved the kid back to a coach bin because he need room for his garnment bag. All turned out well and the child was indeed found in the coach section overhead bins.
FA said this sort of thing is often cited as one of the "rumors" that go around but that it happened to her. To believe or not to believe, that is the question.
Her story: The FA asks a woman in Buisness Class with a lap child to place her child seat in the overhead bin before takeoff. Then when she is doing the final passanger count, there are no "laps" reported. She asks the mother where her child was. You got it! She put the child in the overhead bin in the child seat. When the FA goes to get the child from the bin, the seat (and the child) are missing. They make an announcement over the PA asking if anyone has seen a baby in a child seat. Now for the truely amazing, another Business passanger (a 1K according to her) rings the call button and says he moved the kid back to a coach bin because he need room for his garnment bag. All turned out well and the child was indeed found in the coach section overhead bins.
FA said this sort of thing is often cited as one of the "rumors" that go around but that it happened to her. To believe or not to believe, that is the question.
Mar 15, 1999 | 12:15 pm
#44
Commander Catcop
Join Date: May 1998
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If this is a true story... it's a very frightening one.
1. How could the mother leave the child in the child seat? Maybe she was rushed.
2. How could the man in business class not notice there was a living human in the chair?
3. I'm surprised that the child didn't scream or cry.
I would have a stroke if I accidently put my child in the child seat in the overhead bin.
Actually I would be more concerned about getting my child comfortable in the seat that I would forget to buckle my own belt!
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CATMAN
1. How could the mother leave the child in the child seat? Maybe she was rushed.
2. How could the man in business class not notice there was a living human in the chair?
3. I'm surprised that the child didn't scream or cry.
I would have a stroke if I accidently put my child in the child seat in the overhead bin.
Actually I would be more concerned about getting my child comfortable in the seat that I would forget to buckle my own belt!
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CATMAN
Mar 15, 1999 | 12:24 pm
#45
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I think the baby in the overhead bin is one of those urban legends. Come on, what FC passenger is going to move something into coach. Like there is ever room in the coach bin. The FC passenger would have had the FA take care of it!!