Passenger believes they are entitled to va Lounge after flight delayed

[JohnK]

You must be either very tolerant, patient and /or deaf

If I'm sitting in a cinema or first class. And I can't hear the movie or can't talk to my partner becasue of the noise, it would very much piss me off

I've changed a lot since having a child.

I also apologise a lot.

 

[SOPOOR]

Babies crying are ok... but not if the parents are oblivious and just assume everyone loves their baby as much as they do. As long as parents are at least *trying* to calm the baby, that’s the best they can do.

Of course. I was in a lcc carrier recently and on take off 3 babies started crying, it was clearly because the taking off is stressful. Luckily the babies quietened once airborne

If a mother/father does their best to be considerate by let's say taking the baby as far away as possible from the main crowd or tries to continuously calm them down. That's consideration and I am appreciative of it.

But if in the original original article here. IF the parents were demanding special treatment then that to me is insinuating your needs are above evryone around you and as my parents told me, no one is better than another!

 

[Forg]

You must be either very tolerant, patient and /or deaf

If I'm sitting in a cinema or first class. And I can't hear the movie or can't talk to my partner becasue of the noise, it would very much piss me off

I’d be pretty annoyed if I’d paid to see a movie and couldn’t hear what was going on due to screaming children.
I’d be totally livid if I couldn’t get to sleep after paying for F due to screaming children! But I’d be more accepting of the situation than in the cinema, because if someone’s travelling with kids they can’t exactly leave the kid behind, whereas someone with a screaming baby has no excuse for subjecting other movie-goers to the screaming.

Mind you, some mother screamingly demanding a free upgrade to F because they have a child ... not onboard with that.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

You must be either very tolerant, patient and /or deaf

If I'm sitting in a cinema or first class. And I can't hear the movie or can't talk to my partner becasue of the noise, it would very much piss me off

The cinema I guess you take the baby out. On a plane there is no where to go.

I disagree first or business class passengers should take their crying infants to economy, Economy deserves peace and quiet as well.

 

[Forg]

I don’t think it’s considered socially acceptable to take a baby out for just crying!

 

[SOPOOR]

The cinema I guess you take the baby out. On a plane there is no where to go.

I disagree first or business class passengers should take their crying infants to economy, Economy deserves peace and quiet as well.

I agree. That's like saying, first class is superior to economy class plebs so I'm taking my baby down to the class that doesn't matter.

Imagine sitting in economy and nice and peaceful. Next minute someone comes from nowhere with a screaming baby and stands there

Totally not on

Edit: wasn't it Malaysia air that banned infants from first class?

 

[drron]

But then again, not everyone gets old...

But then they do not need priority anything.

 

[Happy Trails]

And as if on cue:

Indian family thrown off British Airways flight over 'crying child'

The father, an Indian civil servant called AP Pathak, has accused the airline of racism as he claimed a crew member threatened to throw his three-year-old son out of the window if he did not stop crying.


Mr Pathak said his family were offloaded, as well as another Indian family sitting behind them who had offered his son a biscuit.

British Airways said the family were repeatedly asked to sit their child down and fasten his seatbelt, as it was stopping the plane from taking off.

 

[JohnK]

Unfortunately it doesn’t always make sense when you’re on a delayed flight for hours and are tired and want to get to your hotel. The officer serving the family with infant could be processing those already standing in line for a long time

Or they could have more staff working? I've hated arriving in BKK/KUL/HKG without fast track. Can take a long time to get through but not because of babies.

P.S. Anyone over 70 can use fast track in BKK. Is that right or fair?

 

[drron]

Of course it is JohnK.

 

[Forg]

And as if on cue:

Indian family thrown off British Airways flight over 'crying child'

The father, an Indian civil servant called AP Pathak, has accused the airline of racism as he claimed a crew member threatened to throw his three-year-old son out of the window if he did not stop crying.


Mr Pathak said his family were offloaded, as well as another Indian family sitting behind them who had offered his son a biscuit.

British Airways said the family were repeatedly asked to sit their child down and fasten his seatbelt, as it was stopping the plane from taking off.

I started reading that with some scepticism; recalling the "racism" in Melbourne where a few taxi drivers were attacked, the vast majority of taxi drivers happen to be Indian, and suddenly we had protests about racism in Melbourne. But unless the guy's totally full of it, that's pretty poor behaviour by the BA staff.

 

[Moody]

I started reading that with some scepticism; recalling the "racism" in Melbourne where a few taxi drivers were attacked, the vast majority of taxi drivers happen to be Indian, and suddenly we had protests about racism in Melbourne. But unless the guy's totally full of it, that's pretty poor behaviour by the BA staff.

Any parent who is so incompetent and ineffectual that they can't get their 3-year-old to sit down with their seatbelt on .... well I wouldn't believe a word they say. For example do you really think that BA would offload the pax behind for offering the boy a biscuit?

He is a liar first and foremost ... the fact that he is Indian is as unsurprising as it is irrelevant.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

There was another similar incident claiming the family was tossed off a flight because of a toddler tantrum when the parents would not obey crew instructions restraining their kids for landing. Other reports from pax state that the language used by the adults towards the ground staff was appalling and that such abuse in itself would be grounds for being banned.

It's quite unbelieveable looking photo of kid's father that he couldn't keep him restrained for the landing. Then again looking at the father's track record it seems that the apple has fallen too far from the tree.

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[suze2000]

P.S. The majority of humans started off life as babies.

It was only a matter of time before someone trotted out this cliche.

The difference is: when we were children, we were not taken out to restaurants, theatres (except the drive-in, where we could only bother our parents), and neither did we fly long-haul.

 

[jb747]

I don’t think it’s considered socially acceptable to take a baby out for just crying!

I'm not sure that you're allowed to take anyone out for crying...it's a somewhat extreme reaction.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I'm not sure that you're allowed to take anyone out for crying...it's a somewhat extreme reaction.

Eh? You mean to tell me you don't have an ejection slide aboard them flyin' machines of yours?

Last bloody time I'll behave on a flight!

 

[Forg]

Eh? You mean to tell me you don't have an ejection slide aboard them flyin' machines of yours?

Not for humans, I think that’s just where the toilet contents go & for dispersal of the chemtrails.

 

[JohnK]

It was only a matter of time before someone trotted out this cliche.

The difference is: when we were children, we were not taken out to restaurants, theatres (except the drive-in, where we could only bother our parents), and neither did we fly long-haul.

Our parents pretty much took us everywhere in the 60's and 70's when we were growing up but life was different then.

Progress does not necessarily mean life is better.

 

[Forg]

Our parents pretty much took us everywhere in the 60's and 70's when we were growing up but life was different then.

My parents couldn’t afford that sort of thing in the 70’s, and we were probably towards the comfortable end of middle-class ... people just generally couldn’t afford flights, holidays outside of camping or driving to Nan’s place, restaurants, etc.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

'60's and '70's for me was camping holidays in a big canvas (hot as hell) tent. When we achieved gold status, Mum and Dad were able to buy a caravan for the holidays.

Aircraft for us, was a skim board that we scooted across the very shallow white water on!
A suite was a tent with two make-shift bedrooms or caravan with an annex!
An executive lounge was a camp chair out the front of an annex!
Unaffordable luxury was a caravan with a TV!
Really affluent meant squatting for a cough next to the sink waste pipe, for that "Royal Flush" experience!

My first flight was when I could afford/justify it for myself!