Why sit in the kids section if you don’t want to be around kids

Oh and it’s also not a disabled section - it is for the disabled and infants- equally- because it is the only place large enough to accommodate a bassinet and a wheelchair.

No one chooses to sit next to a child; it’s just the luck of the draw. I wouldn’t choose to sit next to someone with BO or someone who stinks of whisky or perfume or who listens to their music so everyone can hear it but all of these things have happened. A plane has all types of human on it (and shock horror, children are human). No one has any right to choose who they sit next to and therefore no right to be annoyed. That goes for everyone, disabled included.

Being forced to do something (like sit with children, something most people avoid) because theres no other options available to you due to being disabled is absoloutly something you can be annoyed at.

Disabled people are allowed to not like or want to put up with your precious child just as much as anyone else is.

They did not CHOOSE to sit with a child, they had no other option because the child is in the disabled section.

Nobody has a right to be annoyed about sitting next to children on a flight and that includes disabled people.

Thank you. 😁

Of course disabled people can be annoyed, they have a disadvantage that means they have no other option. That doesn't mean they have to be happy about being forced to sit with other peoples children.

I've never noticed a kids area in my Ikea so perhaps they didn't realise that's where they were sitting.
But I also suspect your interpretation of your kids "not excessive" noise would be very different to someone else.
Certainly in my Ikea the little darlings shriek at full volume and can be heard around the whole store while the parents casually scroll on their phones oblivious.

Am I the older person who quite likes sitting near the kids section of IKEA cafe seeing them playing and chatting.
It's the parents who seem to be the most miserable and grumpy.

There's a family area at KK station? How did i not know this? Although by the time I've been to the HP shop and spent time arguing with myself that i don't really need another Ravenclaw key ring, there's not much time...

You can hardly get annoyed as a disabled person if the airline has warned you that they’re also reserved for children. Where would you like “other people’s children” to sit?

If the seats are not booked by disabled or parents, they are first offered to frequent flyers. The airline opens up the seating arrangements in tiers as the flight gets closer.

You do realize theres far more flights companies than BA right?

I just checked BA website and yes their specific company does state that:

'It may not be possible to choose bulkhead seats, as they're usually reserved for customers with a disability or those traveling with an infant'

but that has NOTHING to do with how many hours you have traveled for or special treatment or special clubs, thats because they are priority seats for disabled people.

A disabled person is entirely allowed to be annoyed at being stuck with other peoples children.

This is the ‘What About Me Effect’.

Ahhhh, the horse meat scandal, takes me back to 2013.

Whatever is in them now still has me alive and kicking, and enjoying life

It's like the people at the vet's who sit in the main waiting area with their cats and complain about being next to dogs - there is a dedicated cat and small animal waiting area they could go and sit in.

Happened to me recently in the "family" waiting area at King's Cross station. Loads of people sat on their laptops doing work and visibly annoyed that the kids are running g around and playing with the slide etc that's in there. One older woman tutted and asked me why they were not in school!

That is quite literally what frequent flyer programs allow you to do. Travel however many miles over a year, get preferential access to booking seats.

Okay, I'm still thinking bs but since I don't want to derail OP thread I won't continue.

You get status by flying a lot with the same family of airlines. BA don’t care what other airlines you fly if they’re outside of their network.

The bassinets are marked on the seat map, so the information is certainly available. As I said, unless you are a frequent flyer they will close off parts of the seating map to you anyway so I don’t think this will be a problem for you.

How would I achieve airline status? And how would, say BA know my status if I normally flew with another airline?

I'm assuming from your answer that this information is NOT listed on the website and therefore is not comparable to the OPs situation at all.

Hear hear

I have never, ever, not even once been asked my 'experience and knowledge' of flying when booking a seat for a flight.

Its not like 'oh you have over 80 hours of passenger flight experience so have unlocked a reward and can upgrade to this special 'bulk head' seat'.

If you rarely fly/lack airline status, you probably won’t be allowed to book in the bulkhead seats, to be honest.

Also it happens very often and we mainly travel on the southeastern which doesn’t have a first class and you cannot reserve seats on it so that really isn't an excuse they have their pick of the seats. It’s like saying they reserved their seat on the bus..