AIBU to never want to use this airline?

[Honeybee85]

www.bbc.com/news/business-49836599

I appreciate that sitting next to a stranger’s baby or toddler on a long flight is not something most people would choose. But what about all the adults causing nuisance on a plane, drunk people, rude people, smelly people? I have experienced more middle aged men then babies being a source of annoyance during flights.

Also, as a mum of a young baby I would be afraid this kind of information might attract the wrong kind of people with bad intentions deliberately booking a seat next to my child.

It sounds like a good idea tbh

@Honeybee85

Asia is a fairly large continent
Unless you’ll actually be living in Japan I don’t think avoiding JA will be too awkward a stance for you to take...

Japan Airlines seems to say: ‘yes, little children are a nuisance that you should avoid’.

They are, unless they are your own/family.

All airlines should do this.

My one year old cried for half an hour non stop as we waited to take off from Madrid last August. Must say everyone was very understanding. But then, mostly Spanish and Greeks, who did the best to entertain her, make her laugh. Until she just shut up. I would have sat away from her at that moment to be honest, little urchin. Once the seat belt was off she was all smiles and enchantment! Thank god we love 'em...

It's a brilliant idea. Kids are a nuisance on planes and I'd happily pay to avoid them. I think you're being paranoid

It sounds a great idea to me. I'm sure losing your business will be covered by all the paedophiles booking multiple seats in the hope of sitting next to a screaming child.

Why on earth didn't you speak to the mum about dealing with her own child's behaviour, rather than just enabling it?

I did. Terribly apologetic, then zoned out again until the next incident. Fell asleep for a while until he was pulling on the seat In front repeatedly and I woke her. Back to sleep soon after.

And TBH I wasn’t up for a stand up row which would have inconvenienced and disturbed more people, including my own family, and probably achieved very little.

She was a pleasant enough lady apart from not actively keeping her child occupied and zoning out to his impact on others (the people in front of me were probably having a worse time.) . Being unpleasant to his mother over the child’s head wasn’t going to achieve anything positive that my more polite (but still direct) comments did.

(Or at the very least ask your husband to swap seats for a while!)

He had the other 3-3-3 leg and was lucky! And for a good whack of this one had a three year old asleep on him and I’m not fucking with the good karma of a sleeping preschooler on a flight for my own personal comfort. Balance between community and individual benefit.

I’m allowed to choose community and still be disappointed and annoyed at the downside for me as an individual.