Don't mess with this mother !!

[mannej]

Something is not right here. What mother with a handicapped 4 year old would accept a seat anywhere but right next to the child. Surely no airline knowing the situation with said child would seperate the 2 of them ???

Especially in the US of A out of all places...

 

[tuapekastar]

I hope that is sarcasm as all it seems to me is that the mother put her own selfish wants above the needs of her 4 year old son and the comfort of the passenger involved.

The fact the son needed a tablet is a good enough reason for her to stay with the some full stop.

All I can see is the mother needing a please explain, same with JetBlue here as it does not paint them in a positive light at all

No, no sarcasm at all.

Mother seated next to son, son to (allegedly) calm down after medication, reporter to get his sleep. Where is the issue with that?

 

[mannej]

No, no sarcasm at all.

Mother seated next to son, son to (allegedly) calm down after medication, reporter to get his sleep. Where is the issue with that?

The mother was not in the same row as the son, that is the issue.

 

[RB]

Is this a JetBlue thing? They seem to have more than their fair share of publicity about passengers being de-boarded for abstract reasons.

Not deboarding but I found some notes I wrote about Jetblue in a trip report
"Couple of small notes re flight
- daughter of pilot ( maybe 8yr old) sitting in middle eventually threw up just before decent but most landed on floor or her backpack & thankfully had no aroma
- Dog on board-supposed to be in carry on & weighed. Was across aisle in row 2. Not sure what happens with fellow passengers with allergies or number 1 & 2 moments. Owner kept it in rug, basically sitting in a cabin bag & patted it throughout."

Note also the wife of the pilot & another child were about 5 rows back-the mum made no move to help when the daughter was crook. Note also other Jetblue flights we took were great
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[tuapekastar]

The mother was not in the same row as the son, that is the issue.

Not intially, but...

His mother had been seated in the front of the plane several rows ahead of her son, which was quickly rectified by a JetBlue crewmember who asked politely if the woman seated in our aisle seat (14D) would switch with the child's mother.

So at the time of he 'incident' she was in 14D, son in 14E, reporter in 14F. As to why they were initially in separate rows, who knows, but how many times have we read of travelling groups arriving at the airport to find themselves scattered throughout the plane?