Family sections on airplanes

[Imzadi]

At one point, he reaches his arm behind him and ended up trying to feel my leg. I was like, this isn't her leg.

You should have said, "Hey Buddy, I charge for that!"

 

[hereyago]

Oh, ME TOO!!!!!!!!!
IAt least, create the "cone of silence" that was used in the TV show, Get Smart. Only, make one that works!

You may be on to something!!!!!!!

 

[hereyago]

You should have said, "Hey Buddy, I charge for that!"

Dang, I should have!!!!!!! And they were both in the military and I know from how he was talking he was an above officer. Yea, can you stop groping each other to defend our country?

 

[hereyago]

Or years ago, when you could get tipsy on a plane flying back home from France. Me and this French guy were just drinking to drown out the youth "Christian" group who was near us. Luckily I am a happy drunk or I would have told them if they sang Kum By Ya-sorry don't know the correct spelling-one more time I was going to throw them out of the plane.

Worse yet, our connecting flight home was overbooked, guess who was with us waiting on stand by? By this time I was sober and was like can you just shut up? People even clapped!

 

[bookgirl]

There is not a plane big enough to have a "family section". Let's face it, who'd want the first (or third) row behind or in front of those seats

Mostly kids on planes don't bother me. I spent too many years working with kids (including 9 years as a special ed teacher) to be bothered. And sometimes they are just unhappy and crying nothing you can do.

What does annoy me are the parents who obviously didn't plan ahead and bring snacks/toys/something to distract them. Or the ones who ignore the bad behaviors (kids crying parents are reading their magazine, kids are bothering other passagners and they think it's cute that thier kid had to tell the adult behind them "hi" every 5 minutes of a 3 hour flight, etc). Or any of the above and the parent pulls the "well they're just kids" routine. Sometimes it can't be helped but for goodness sakes a parent should try to minimize thier childrens discomfort and be a good travler to others on thier flights.

I've been pretty lucky or as my travel companions say I'm just really tolerant, but there have been a couple of times I would have paid to send some kid or thier parent to another section preferablly in the cargo hold.

 

[Pakey]

I'd rather sit by a noisy child (I do have those nice Bose noise-reducing headphones) over an adult with horrible body odor.

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

I'd love a family section. My children are well behaved, but I get so nervous that someone will think they're to noisy, that they'll have to go to the bathroom and we'll have to crawl over angry people, or that they'll kick the seat in fron of them. I would love to have a section where I felt more comfortable with my kids getting to act like kids and know that everyone around me was on the same boat.

 

[LuvLDM]

I'd rather sit by a noisy child (I do have those nice Bose noise-reducing headphones) over an adult with horrible body odor.

Me too...or worse someone who drenched themselves in perfume/cologne.

 

[1stluvispooh]

I think there should be an old biddy section on planes.

And my mom can have the seat next to Barbara!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Oh gosh no!


Flying SWA this past week, where I get to pick my own seats. I traveled with my 2dd and my ds (age 3). Pretty well behaved during the flight. We sit 2 and 2 and so each of our rows gets a stranger.

Guy who sat next to me was on guard. I could tell. I'm sure he thought my son would be a crazy person.

Behind our row, 3 children. Each spent the entire flight kicking all of our seats. And, they were clearly old enough to know better with no obvious disabilities that would otherwise make them not know better. (and if that was the case, they should have had a grown up next to them).

It was annoyingly frustrating.

[Has my son kicked a seat in the past? Yes--I apologized profusely and held his legs down until he no longer had the desire. Now my girls sit in front of him--so that in the event he did, it would only annoy his sister.]

As the plane was on approach, the guy next to me on this flight--clearly had enough b/c after one swift kick from behind, he leaned over to me and asked my sons age and if he traveled before. I told him and then he replied that I needed to give my son his compliments for being so well behaved.

We shouldn't punish everyone with steerage with the kiddos b/c not all kids are brats.

I'm also afraid that with a family section--parents would be less likely to umm...keep their kids under control when it comes to the various annoyances that children can share.

 

[DISdreamin']

I'd rather sit by a noisy child (I do have those nice Bose noise-reducing headphones) over an adult with horrible body odor.

Those only make the actual sounds the kids make LOUDER and more distinct! If you ever want to hear the conversation the couple on the opposite side of the plane is having, those puppies are the way to go! They are noise canceling, not sound canceling.

 

[DISdreamin']

Guy who sat next to me was on guard. I could tell. I'm sure he thought my son would be a crazy person.
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As the plane was on approach, the guy next to me on this flight--clearly had enough b/c after one swift kick from behind, he leaned over to me and asked my sons age and if he traveled before. I told him and then he replied that I needed to give my son his compliments for being so well behaved.

Yeah, I get that look a lot when people find their seat is next to me and the kids when we fly.

One time an older woman had to move to let me and DD in, and you could just tell...she wasn't happy about now being in the toddler/pre-school section. Right up until DD, then four, put her own little carryon backpack under the seat in front of hers, climbed into her seat and clipped her own seatbelt.

Kids need to be taught how to behave, whether it is on an airplane or in a restaurant. They don't know any better until they're taught - why some people don't feel it's necessary....

 

[eliza61]

I was watching The View today and the ladies were talking about the $45 for carryon luggage. The conversation switched to Barbara Walters mentioning that they should also have a section of the plane for families. What do you think?

Personally, I find some adults just as annoying as I find some kids so it wouldn't really do any good.

Barbara acknowledged that she is already expecting negative feedback from folks.

I saw this, I thought it was funny.

You know what I didn't understand though, Shery Sheppard is sitting there saying she allows her son to kick the back of peoples seats. She justified it by saying "I always take his shoes off".

See most of the time this is the problem. Adults refuse to be parents. Hey Sheri how about telling Jr. not to kick the seat in the first place.

I see this at the world a lot too. Little princess is acting like a monster and parents are sitting there whistling dixie.

 

[castmemberb4]

We're DINKs On a plane it dosen't bother me so much but we've always wanted to open a restaurant with a kids and non-kids section.

 

[SunshineOR]

We just did a trip that involved a lot of flying, and we were always seated in the back of the plane with a lot of other families. I would say there is a de facto family section, at least on Delta. I didn't like it.

My kids behave very well and were constantly harrassed by other kids allowed to kick seats and talk loud and be obnoxious. Even my two-year-old commented that "those bad boys keep kicking my seat!" and my kids couldn't sleep due to crying babies and noisy kids. We paid the same amount as everyone else for our seats and I don't see why we have to be stuck in some horrible section back by the restroom getting kicked and our ears screamed in just because we have kids. If they're going to do this, they should give us a family-section discount and charge us less for having to sit in this crummy section. And I certainly feel for someone without kids stuck back there, they should get the family-section discount too!

 

[Tinkerbell58]

*a lady eating 4 chili/cheese/onion dogs that she got from the terminal and brought to eat beside me on the plane

We'll also need a section to handle the effects of said chilli dogs.

 

[taximomfor4]

I personally wouldn't want to fly with my children in a family section. My kids are pretty quiet on the airplane, they sit still, color and watch movies with headphones. I "trained them" to be that way from birth. No, in all seriousness, the kids are good travelers so I wouldn't want to be in a section full of other kids who aren't so quiet, even if they were being relatively well-behaved. I guess that's why we don't fly too much.

My kids are generally very calm in public, and would definitely be annoyed if they were stuck on a plane for hours surrounded by kids who were not trained to keep indoor voices, etc.

 

[MIGrandma]

Personally, I would rather have family sections in restaurants instead of on airplanes.

It annoys me to no end when DH and I go out for dinner somewhere like Lonestar, Applebees, Outback, etc. and there's a screaming toddler near us. Ugh. I would love family sections, and adult sections, so we could enjoy a quiet dinner together.

 

[Pakey]

Those only make the actual sounds the kids make LOUDER and more distinct! If you ever want to hear the conversation the couple on the opposite side of the plane is having, those puppies are the way to go! They are noise canceling, not sound canceling.

I put on some Five Finger Death Punch at a decent level and I don't hear a thing.

I think screaming children should be taken out of restaurants but there's not much that can be done on a plane. I'm sure the parents aren't enjoying it either.

 

[MM27]

I saw this, I thought it was funny.

You know what I didn't understand though, Shery Sheppard is sitting there saying she allows her son to kick the back of peoples seats. She justified it by saying "I always take his shoes off".

See most of the time this is the problem. Adults refuse to be parents. Hey Sheri how about telling Jr. not to kick the seat in the first place.

I see this at the world a lot too. Little princess is acting like a monster and parents are sitting there whistling dixie.

I was thinking the same thing about her comments with the kicking. Kicking is kicking, with shoes or without. She also complained that then people try to offer her son a cookie to calm him down and don't they realize that giving him sugar isn't going to help. I think the people perhaps are trying to divert his attention, not to sugar him up. If she deals with the situation, others won't need to try to intervene.