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Malaysia Airlines: No more infants in 1st class on jumbo jets
Malaysia Airlines has banned babies in the first-class sections of its Boeing 747-400 jets. It also plans to do the same in its yet-to-be-delivered Airbus A380 superjumbo jets, according to the Australian Business Traveller. The publication reports Malaysia Airlines CEO Tengku Azmil says the carrier is responding to complaints from first-class passengers about crying infants. Azmil, who conducted a back-and-forth with an Australian Business Traveller reporter via Twitter, says the first-class… (travel.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
In a perfect world, there would be an airline dedicated to people with babies and toddlers. Nothing annoys me more than having to deal with a screaming baby for two or three hours on a flight.
Sadly even though I hate the screaming of a child that wont be comforted also, I try to remember that I too was once a baby and that my mom had to travel with me in arms also. We simply can't be so concerned about our own exalted comfort that we forget we aren't the only ones that paid for a ticket, and that those parents need to travel isn't trumped by someone else's desire to exist in a child free world, that the poor baby has no other way to communicate need or discomfort and lastly......we TOO were once one of those crying bundles of joy.
That may be true, but nobody spends ten grand on a ticket to Europe so that they can deal with crying babies. People spend the extra money to be comfortable and peaceful on the flight, not to be seated in the travelling daycare section.
I understand what you're saying and I agree on some level, but my Mom always told me that she wouldn't travel with me when I was a kid until I could behave--I wish the same would apply to everyone else.
I understand what you're saying and I agree on some level, but my Mom always told me that she wouldn't travel with me when I was a kid until I could behave--I wish the same would apply to everyone else.
It's the way it is in this world,simply no consideration for other people, if I have to put up with it, so will you type of mentality.
It's the same for restaurants, or anywhere people are gathered, especially when you are trapped in an A/C at 35,000 ft.
It's the same for restaurants, or anywhere people are gathered, especially when you are trapped in an A/C at 35,000 ft.
I am on the fence with this one. I have traveled from Montreal to Manila a few times and recently took my 3 year old (now 4) daughter. On the way to Hong Kong from Toronto, she did act up about half way through the 15 hour flight. Now, i did end up holing myself and my daughter up in the head for about 45 minutes, until she calmed down - it was her first time on a plane and she was holding her pee, hence the discomfort that made her act up.Yes, i took into consideration the other passengers. This type of thing is not only bothers other passengers, but it does bother the parents to - i am 6 feet 4 inches tall, 260 pounds and i felt like i was 2 inches tall as everyone was glancing at me. Everyone has a right to fly, even kids and infants, in any seating class they are able to afford. I understand that people pay 3-4 times as much to fly first class, but does that really give them the right to be exempt from a crying baby? Does it actually state that on their ticket? I don't think so. I can handle a crying baby. What i can't stand is obnoxious adult passengers! You know, the kind that put their feet up between the seat on YOUR arm rest, or constantly kicking the back of YOUR seat, or the ones who always grab the back of YOUR seat and yank it backwards when they get up, or the ones that recline their seat and keep it reclined until a steward(ess) tells them to put it in the upright position, or the one that shout out, "we are going to crash!", even before we take off, or the ones who bring in so much carry on that they take up more room then they should, or the ones who try to run you over because they have to get off the plane before the other 350 odd passengers... should i go on?? If i can kick off all the idiot adult passengers off my next flight (i would probably be left by myself on the flight) and fly with a crying baby, i would take the crying baby any day.
Well said Alistair!