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Child free flights. would you pay extra?

102 replies

HookedOnHooking · 03/09/2015 21:00

I bloody would.

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mummytime · 03/09/2015 21:01

No! Never had a problem personally.

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Olddear · 03/09/2015 21:02

Yes.

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OliviaBenson · 03/09/2015 21:03

Yes!!! Although it's not usually the children that are the problem, it's the parents who fail to well, parent.

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sooperdooper · 03/09/2015 21:03

No, never had an issue with kids on flights, ever

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HookedOnHooking · 03/09/2015 21:04

3 solid hours of top volume screaming should not be inflicted on anyone. Ever.

Yes. I know the poor little begger couldn't help it. Or it's parent could do nothing to stop it but fuck me I'd pay quite a lot to not have to do that again ever.

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WhetherOrNot · 03/09/2015 21:05

Yes, yes and yes again.

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SouthWestmom · 03/09/2015 21:05

No but I would pay for a child free cple of hours in a supermarket

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Oysterbabe · 03/09/2015 21:06

Yes.
Also I'd pay extra and buy stuff in child free supermarkets and restaurants if I could.

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TheOddity · 03/09/2015 21:06

Yes I would, but only if I get them back in one piece at the other end of the flight. Kind of like the ikea play room.

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2rebecca · 03/09/2015 21:07

Rowdy alcohol fueled groups or too fat to fit in their seat so they spill over in to yours adults have disturbed me more than young kids.

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chipsandpeas · 03/09/2015 21:08

Deffo

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Spilose · 03/09/2015 21:08

Nah
I've had child free holidays with flights full of squealing kids. I relax in the bliss of knowing they're not mine

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AuntyMag10 · 03/09/2015 21:08

Yes! Children under 6 especially.

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TimeToMuskUp · 03/09/2015 21:08

No. But that's because I have two of my own, so other people's are never much of an issue. Can see why others might, though; a chap on our flight this summer was huffing and puffing the whole time because the child in front of him (not mine) was standing on it's seat dancing about while her parents got spangled. She wasn't half as noisy as he was with his cussing and moaning.

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HookedOnHooking · 03/09/2015 21:09

I think under 10.

Over 10 can be reasonably expected to not kick seats, scream or use outside voices.

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Moln · 03/09/2015 21:10

I've only taken short flights in recent years so I'd say one to childfree flights

Though to a rowdy drunk free flight I most certainly would too, it's a very threatening feeling and I'd take a planeful of screaming babies over that again any day

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Moln · 03/09/2015 21:10

No not one

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TravellingToad · 03/09/2015 21:10

no never had a problem with kids on a flight

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BadLad · 03/09/2015 21:10

Absolutely I would.

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PowderMum · 03/09/2015 21:13

Oh yes please

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LieselVonTwat · 03/09/2015 21:17

I'd pay extra for stag and hen free flights. And for a screening process to weed out the sort of assclown who hasn't grasped the 'public' in public transport and thinks they have a right not to be around children.

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goblinhat · 03/09/2015 21:17

I've never had a problem with kids on flights either- and I have flown over 200 times.

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EatDessertFirst · 03/09/2015 21:17

Never had an issue with kids on a flight. My own really enjoy flying and are impeccably behaved. The drunks on flights pose more of a risk and are way more irritating IMO. And the pearl clutchers I've witnessed that huff and puff about kids talking. Some people need to get over themselves.

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Queeltie · 03/09/2015 21:25

Only if I was flying somewhere where a flight was likely to be full of kids, such as Florida.
And where is everyone flying to? I have never been on a flight with drunken rowdy adults.

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MrsJorahMormont · 03/09/2015 21:26

YY to drunken hens and stags on flights being more of a menace. The airlines are pathetic at dealing with this, especially Easyjet. We flew to Palma a couple of years ago and thankfully were at the other end of the plane to a drunken stag party. A poor mum stood up at the end of the flight and screamed at them because her children had been subjected to two hours of their foul language, 'hilarious' jokes and general ass-hattery. The kids were as good as gold.

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