nk15

Even though the OP did not appear to do anything wrong, the fact that 5-10 pax commented means they need to be more discreet next time. For example, was the kid like “Dad this” and Dad that” all the time? Sometimes it is also the appearance of an impropriety that needs to be avoided, not just the impropriety itself.

BRITINJAPAN4

WOW !

You would be concerned that crew took special care of a young child who seemed to be travelling alone !

I have been accused of selfishness, but thanks, you make me look like a saint !!

garykung

Just because you have a group of sizeable people saying something is wrong, it does not make it the truth.

stc

I see nothing wrong or unprofessional.

Intl359Widget

You seem to have misunderstood my post... I would not be concerned because I said I'm going to play the Devil's Advocate and try to see this situation from the perspective of a self-entitled business class passenger who seems to not be able to mind their own business.

For what it's worth, I'm in the industry and saw nothing wrong with the OP's behaviour at all.

Hedgehog7

I have took my son like this in the past and never had a issue and will take him again.
I did tell him I would try and take him again before Christmas.

He was wearing a mask for the full flight except when he was eating and drinking (non alcoholic obviously).

aww, that's so nice of her to let her son help her, such a unique experience for him.
one colleague of mine had her daughter help her once when she brought her onboard and she was diligent enough to be sure it didn't interfere with the service or the enjoyment of the flight.

rickg523

How many people in that cabin didn't complain or even made complimentary comments? More than 7? Paying inordinate attention to a mouthy, mean-spirited minority buys no one anything good.

pinniped

What was the destination? Is it a place where ordinary British passport holders can currently go for tourism?

Were there any paying passengers on the upgrade list displaced by your son? Or was the flight substantially less-than-full in both cabins and you were able to get your son to J after any upgrades had been processed?

prncess674

If more than one passenger complained in flight then I agree with others that we aren't getting the whole story. Everybody believes that their child is giant a sweet little angel that couldn't ever be a problem. Since you don't give any example of the complaints, nor have we heard from any of the passengers we can only guess what this issue was.

Herb687

I'm not aware of any US airline that prohibits family of crew actively working a flight from flying NRSA on the same flight. In fact, I believe pilot spouses may be authorized NRPS to travel on a pilot's retirement flight. For just ordinary flights, pilots and FAs can bring along spouses and children on flights they're working - no "authorization" required at all, but they're not given any special priority over other NRSA pax who want to standby for that flight.

I flew MUC-ATL on DL one Thanksgiving week and am pretty sure that two of the NRSA passengers on that flight were children of one of the cabin crew working J on that flight. Even though the J cabin appeared to be more NRSA than paying pax, I still received great service from that DL cabin crew.

Super Mario

Personally, I don't see anything in there that would offend me

I do know that there are two sides to every story. While some people are annoying busybodies, I feel like we are not being told something. Outside of political activity, I can't ever recall a time where someone was verbally berated by 5-10 people for no reason.

garykung

Something to supplement.

While I understand OP's perspective, the reality is none of us here was on that flight. So we would never know how things were, it is your one-sided story.

Some people are always over-entitled. So if you don't get any complaints at all for the trip, move one.

onobond

Everything was cleared with the airline beforehand, hence no real problem (as far as the facts that has been posted say)

Maybe the other pax were just jealous over not having a Mum/Dad to take them along on trips like this

Qwkynuf

What could have possibly happened that would cause 5-10 other passengers to even be *aware* that this person's child was on the flight? What percentage of those who *are aware* are going to speak up? And what is the level of annoyance that exceeds the threshold for speaking up?

Have any of you ever been on an airplane? Think about a long haul business class cabin. Picture yourself standing at your seat. Depending on the seat config, you might have someone sitting in the adjacent pod if you are in the middle. someone ahead, another behind, and someone across the aisle. That's 4. Ten people would be.... 1/4 of the cabin? Even in a 2/4/2 configuration, 10 people casts a pretty wide net.

It just seems to me that for most annoyances, human nature would suggest that the majority of people who are stuck together in a metal tube for 1/3 of a day would opt to silently stew, rather than complain. I can't think of anything short of an FA plopping themselves down next to their kid and *staying there* that would prompt me to speak up.

Then again, maybe the little guy had his window shade open. I know how that fires people up around here.

Kevin AA

Probably so or there wouldn't have been a large number of complaints. Paying passengers should not be able to tell that someone else is a non-rev. There have been times where I knew another passenger was a non-rev because a flight attendant stopped by to chat for an extended period of time. That is a no-no.