A Flygirl, glad to see things from your perspective. Good to know airline personnel know about one trick that works well: take advantage of their short attention span and divert their attention to something else! Most of the time they forget what they were so upset about. Can't say I've seen kids helping out the FA's on any of my flights, though.

Curious about one thing. I remember reading that FA's use the "barf bags" (clean, of course, and what's airline-speak for those, anyway?!) for warming baby bottles, by pouring some hot water in and having the pax put the bottle in for a few moments. Seems like a dangerous practice for the parents, with the shrinking seat pitch and fully reclined seatbacks someone could get scalded!

Sport I've never heard of or seen that practice. It would be very dangergous indeed. Those bags might be plastic lined but they are not waterproofed. What should be used and is available in any equipped galley are coffee silex pots, coffee/tea serving pots or plug in "hot cups" used to boil water for tea (not on all aircraft). One of the three should be available on any given flight though.

No industry nickname for the bags that I know of. Barf bag succinctly covers it.

MSNBC article about traveling with children
http://www.msnbc.com/news/395939.asp



[This message has been edited by Mvic (edited 06-08-2000).]