To think that it is ok to jump the queue when with an infant?

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DH, DC (3 months) and I were flying for the first time today to see family, long expected break!
We had booked priority, lounges and everything we could to relieve a bit of the stress.
Priority queue was quite long to check in luggage and we started queuing nicely.
Another mum came along and told us we could jump the queue which we did gladly as baby started stirring a little bit.
However it enraged some of the people in the queue, literally shouting that it was very out of order and that was no such thing as baby class, and what is wrong with you people etc.
Interestingly, every other step in the airport (security, customs, boarding) we were invited nicely by the staff to jump the queue.

So YANBU, of course you can jump the queue when with an infant
YABU no, you should queue like everyone else

Yes - if invited to do so by staff it is fine

It's not a competition love. And your experience is your experience. Not someone else's.

My point originally was that OP should not have thought that she should take priority in a priority check in queue, when she had no idea why other people had paid for priority - for all she knew, every other person had a valid reason; but they accepted they had to queue within the priority queue. They didn’t go to the front, on the basis, they needed it more - and I don’t see why OP did! I do not see having a 3 month old baby, she could carry in her arms as a big deal.

Anyway, I am not arguing any more, as I’m on holiday; but we are not looking forward to the flights home, after being stuck in a massive security check queue at the transit airport, while we were supposed to be boarding the second plane - having already been checked thoroughly at Heathrow to get on the first one. I can see why people get annoyed.

You are being unreasonable simply because the majority of people you cut also have/had children and navigated life just fine. I get it, new parent, you actually think your situation that day was somehow unique and special, that your life was somehow more chaotic than every other person who also was patiently waiting. In reality, everyone around you has succeeded in life in the exact same situation without using motherhood as an excuse to get to the front. Again, I understand, I have 4 kids, one of which was in a huge brace for 9 months, but I still never felt that entitled me to anything. We need to stop assuming our life at any given moment is more stressed or deserving than those around us. If you got there earlier, you would be in the front, so it’s not like it was out of your hands. In addition, at what age would you stop using the child as an excuse, 2 5 9 …Now to be clear, I don’t find you all at fault. The woman that first told you to go ahead started all of this. I would never be so rude to speak for an entire line of people. She had no business, if she wants you to take her spot then go back to wherever you were standing as a switch, fine, no disruption. But it was her that put it in your head in the first place that having a baby gives all sorts of privileges which it does not. So I find her most at fault.

Whilst it is a parents choice if they decide to travel abroad on planes with very young children they dont have the right to expect everyone else to step aside or give additional priority to them over and above what they get already. As stated - It was their choice to travel with young children. In addition, being asked to give up seats or move seats to accommodate for the parents bad planning (or deciding not to pay to select seats) and then expecting everyone to allow them priority (as has been in the news recently) is completely wrong. Most airlines do allow families with small children to board first anyway, but If you are already in the priority queue (as the OP was) then you really dont have any right to walk past everyone else that is also in the priority queue or expect any further accommodations in my view.