LOL. so kids on award tix should be treated differently?

Tired children usually don't scream.

Actually, they do. I don't get the little feckers. If you're so damn tired, why don't you go to sleep?

Yep. Mine goes nuts when she's over tired. Whines a lot. Cries some. Then crashes.

I fly AA. Their lounges are called Admirals Clubs. At https://www.aa.com/i18n/travelInform...Pass_terms.jsp they list the rules for a "day pass"--I would assume these extend to people who have purchased annual memberships. One of the rules listed states:
American Airlines expressly reserves the right in its absolute discretion to discontinue the day pass program at any time or to refuse to sell a day pass to any specific customer and, if sold, to cancel a day pass, and deny any purchaser or visitor access to, or use of, any lounge. American Airlines will not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by a purchaser or visitor resulting from such refusal, cancellation, or denial.

and then queue the thread where someone complains that the kid was brought into the terminal where it was disrupting countless more people than in the small confined lounge.

This. We always know it's going to be hardest to get our kids to go to bed (as opposed to actually going to sleep) when they are overtired. Once they've been down for a couple of minutes, though, they're gone.

Mike

I think I get it. You don't like kids with weird names. Or Hillary Clinton, apparently.

There is plenty you can do about step 3 - take your kid out of the lounge. I've done it myself plenty of times.

Let them complain, as passengers in the terminal have no reasonable expectation of a quiet, restful environment. Whereas passengers in a first class lounge do. That's one way the lounges differentiate from the terminal.

The parent of the disruptive child has options other than the terminal. Several times in restaurants I have seen considerate parents take a disruptive child into a rest room until they quieted down. In one instance, the child returned to the table and remained silent while finishing his meal standing up. Apparently it was uncomfortable for him to sit down.

If an airport is big enough to have a lounge area, it's probably big enough to have a designed kinderzoo play area where kids are encouraged to work out the loudness and bad behavior before getting on the plane. Or alternately, a 2-3 gate area unused until the 4:55 from JFK arrives where little Snotleigh can calm the heck down with minimal disruption to other passengers.

Neither of those are really the case. Smaller airports without lounges tend to be better for entertaining small children in deserted gate areas. And airports with lounges do not always have kid play areas.

Even so, lounges are not an appropriate place for crying or noisy kids. Please take your kids outside if they start to act up.

That said, I've rarely encountered noisy kids in airline lounges. Far more frequently, I encounter noisy adults on their mobile phones, often in the "cell phone free" areas.

Yes, I'm sure the person who did this reads this forum.

Wrong on both counts - I dislike parents who give their little snowflakes "special" names and expect others to treat them like royalty.

And I love Hillary Clinton, she drove past my house once when she was visiting here, she waved at me and my heart melted.

I fully agree with you. Yes a screaming kid is annoying but I'll put up with it if a parent is TRYING. If there is a big empty space or room, take your kid there until they stop screaming.

+1

Despite five years of shaky parenting, our kids have actually turned out okay so far. And we have the good fortune of a home base airport with a kid-zone in the AA lounge, as well as a play area in both the Delta and JetBlue zones. Having said that, we have removed the kids from a lounge when necessary.

But I fail to understand why businessmen (and it's almost always men) screaming into their cell phones don't receive the same kind of scrutiny here that the little people do. The former is certainly a far more frequent occurrence.

Mike