Child free flights. would you pay extra?

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I bloody would.

Couldn't children fly Cargo Class?

Yeh. Who's taking my kid?

We tend to do long flights. There have never been any drunken adults on board, but often some children. But they have been fine. I suspect parents of badly behaved DCs don't attempt 16 hour flights with them. Exception was one toddler who constantly kicked my friend was sitting next to him, and whose mother complained loudly when she told him to stop. Also on long flights you have entertainment systems, so DCs are usually just watching kids films.

I do think parents should not be able to book First Class and put their young DCs in economy. I ended up sitting next to young DCs whose parents came down every so often to check on them from First Class. They were well behaved, but I still ended up partly looking after them by helping them to sort out problems with entertainment system, to adjust air vent flow, open a drink for them, etc etc.

I think parents and kids should be in one section of the plane and the rest of us in another.

I did 6 hours to Cape Verde with a couple using the tray behind my seat as a drum to keep their baby amused. They only stopped when the baby napped and couldn't have cared less that I have severe back problems. I swapped seats with DH and it was still going through it.

Coming home another baby cried most of the way. The miserable woman behind me made more fuss whinging and moaning about the noise it was making.

I've never been on a flight where I've been disturbed by hen and stag parties or drunken groups, luckily.

I think large groups bookings like stag parties should be forced to be spread out on the plane. Last flight I took a group of 12 men stood up in the aisle the entire flight drinking and talking loudly and trying to engage female travellers into "conversation".

Any flight even just a couple of hours is a rather long time to expect a small child to sit perfectly still in a confined space and I say that as a generally intolerant to other people type of person.

I think it takes special kind of arsehole to put their kids in economy whilst they travel first class.

I've flown hundreds of times, and I don't recall a single time that I've been bothered by kids. If they're a bit noisy you can just put headphones on surely?

Stag/hen parties would bother me more; perhaps I've been lucky but I've never been on a flight with a large group of rowdy drunken people. In my experience this is much more of a problem on trains.

cuntycowfacemonkey - I have been on 16 hour flights with babies, toddlers and young children travelling on the plane. Although the parents had to work hard to keep them happy, as a passenger, they were fine.

But then, aren't the children just dumped in economy with the nanny while the parents enjoy business class?

Maybe airlines should also be subjected to some sanction for not supplying the promised seating for babies and for ing families to pay ££££ to sit together on a flight.

The young DCs I sat next to did not have a nanny with them.

No but then I never take charter flights so maybe they are different.

The most annoying flight I'ce been on recently was a group of older teenagers (18 yo ish) who sang all the way back on their flight from some sporting event.

I don't know what they were thinking, the other passengers were ready to strangle them. My dd said "but Mummy don't they know that's rude?"

I prefer to put my kids in the over head locker.

Me too Moln but now they are over 10kg they have to go in the hold

No. I fly on average once a week, never had an issue with kids on planes.

Drunk and rude people however are everywhere and I would happily pay to not get on a flight with anyone on stag or hen party.
My worse ever flight was London to South Africa in first class with a well known celebrity and mini entourage around them. The entire lot should have put on no flight list after seriously

I wouldn't care where they sat as long as they don't scream in fear/pain/temper/terror/anger for 3 solid hours.

Never had a problem with kids on a flight and I get internal rage on flights very easily, I'd pay more on a flight not to have ignorant twats take their shoes off and rest their stinky hooves on any surface other than the floor though

Name and shame Artandco (not nosey at all )

I would pay to guarantee no snakes

Ha ha ha !!!! Me too camping. Never had a problem with kids though.

Some of the hen/stag stories sound awful though.

Possibly... I once had a child kicking the back of my chair constantly during a flight. Funnily enough it stopped as soon as my DD coincidently reclined her seat just as daddy's hot drink was served!

I flew in business class for years, only issues were too pissed passengers
As a mother and no longer in business class its still the same issue. majority parents acutely aware of children's behaviour impact on others - drunks less so.
I like a drink on a flight, but they shouldn't be serving 5/6/7 drinks to someone on a 4 hour flight leaving at 11am surely?

Just been on a flight from Greece when I said to my husband 'why can't we have child-free flights?' So topical for me this one! Oh god yes I'd pay extra not to have to listen to the racket.. Also, never again am I holidaying at the height of school holiday season.. We don't normally, just fitting in with other breaks this year.. Hotel was bursting with kids.. Ok when yours are little but not when you're holidaying as a couple.. I just want peace!

Oh yes! I'd pay a lot.

I fly from Amsterdam about three times a month. Nothing prepares you for the joy of the hen & stag parties, especially the ones with an 'amusing' theme. I've had a hockey team congregating near the loo on a flight to Singapore right next to my seat, despite being told to sit the hell down several times they kept coming back, crowd of cackling hens the lot of them. Business men that don't realise their feet are not so fragrant on the late flights out of Heathrow...people that jump up the second they can so they can stand for 20 mins with their elbow against your head and crotch in your face until the door is actually opened...I hate flying. Kids? Never been a problem.

I recently flew to Australia. On the return journey, I would have paid extra not to sit next to the man who kept dropping things, and sucking his teeth, on the first leg, or the young couple that couldn't keep their hands off each other, on the second.

There were babies on most of the flights. They didn't worry me, really.