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

I'm actually pleased that other passengers told you to get fae fuck

Oh ffs, crack on op, once you get beyond the baby/infant/toddler years it’s a barren wasteland of no one giving a flying f*ck anymore, so make the most of any and all special treatment and utilise it.

Christ on a bike hyenas, cast your minds back, I’d have grabbed this small glimmer of recompense with both hands when mine were teeny, and I wouldn’t get into a flap now if someone else was benefitting *

• and I say that as someone who was caught in the utter shit storm of Bristol airport at 430am last Friday morning! Had a mother and baby been let through ahead of me, I hope I wouldn’t have acted like a dick and begrudged them!

And again... this was at check in! Not boarding!

I'd rather someone jump the queue for having a baby than for just having loads of cash.

Haven't returned but @AffIt hahahahahahahahahaha crack crew to "aid" disabled hahahahaha.

The reason disabled go first is to give them (ie me) space and time to move unhindered and not under pressure of hundreds of eyes staring at you. Also, waiting for everyone to actually sit the fuck down would before we could do our thing would make the whole thing equally long!

I had three under 3. On the rare occasion I got to jump the queue it meant someone didn't have to listen to my crying kids. Win win

I think there are quite a few places where it’s generally to everyone’s benefit that families with infants get given priority.

With air travel, we all want babies on planes to be in the best mood possible and no one wants to be stuck in a line with a baby crying right behind them. Giving parents a little less stress by letting them skip the line and get settled on the plane first helps make that happen. It probably also keep issues that might delay takeoff to a minimum.

So in that situation, if it’s the airline policy, then YANBU. I hope it made the journey smoother.

I flew Ryanair two weeks ago with my toddler and when we landed back in the UK, the staff were very vocal about families with children coming to the front of the queue for passport control. I wouldn’t have pushed to the front on the say so of another mum though. There was absolutely no special treatment for check in on boarding on either side, all children / babies were in the queue with everyone else and I wouldn’t have expected there to be.

Good point!

I am coming out (nearly) of the tricky baby/toddler years and I would have no issue for the rest of my days letting a family with babies/toddlers go to the front alongside pregnant, disabled people etc. travelling with little ones is like travelling with a handgrenade that could go off at any moment. My 6yo is incredibly easy in comparison to my younger one and my 3yo is easy compared to an 18m old.

Same principle really as parent and child spaces. I don’t use them if I’m on my own with the 6yo as she is sensible, doesn’t need to faff with car seats in the same way. I still use them with my 3yo as she is a flight risk, needs unstrapping/strapping in and just more effort to do anything. I am relieved I will never have to travel with a 1yo again - it is just hard work and I couldn’t begrudge someone with a small child jumping a queue.

In 45 plus years of international travel I have never seen anyone go to the top of a check in queue with a baby or children. Yes they get priority boarding and that is fair enough.

Disabled yes
Heavily pregnant yes
Just because you have a baby no
A baby does not stop you queuing like everybody else
They might cry but that is really not the end of the world

Unless there's been an announcement or staff invite you forward then yes YABU. We also flew yesterday with 2 children, one only 5 months. We waited in the queue and only 'queue jumped' when it was officially our turn, and of course, people moved out of the way for us without any issues....

Hello! Sorry, just catching up.

Yes, the reasons you laid out were right and I agree (although you do not, even just a wee bit, like the idea of a 'ground crew crack team'? Like the A-Team, in one of those wee electric buggies?! 😄)

Skipping the queue at check-in doesn't get them settled on the plane any faster though!

I have 3 children, youngest is still a baby, can't say I have ever jumped a queue because I have a baby, even when I attended a+e with a small baby I still stood in line at the front desk! You shouldn't be queue jumping in an airport, you have a baby, not a severe disability which stops you from queuing. You followed someone else queue jumping and wonder why people were annoyed?

I’d think you were unbelievably entitled.

fair enough if the company/airline are calling people with small kids forward but you can’t queue jump just because another mum said you could. Bonkers. Yes, I’ve seen in the past families called forward early for boarding (generally where there’s a bus to the plane across the tarmac involved so you get a seat) but never for check in.

YANBU if you were told to step ahead.

If I am travelling without my children I will gladly see families skip the queue.
we recently arrived back from holiday and the queue for border control was miles long. Honestly I could have cried when I seen it, we were all exhausted from a difficult flight, and when we got off I was carrying 2 bags and my one year old, dh was also carrying 2 bags and holding 4 year old hand. I was so happy when staff started shouting that families to skip the queue. However a man in blocked our way and told us ‘we are all waiting’ but we just ignored it. I will never grudge a family to go first!

Controversial but I would absolutely pay extra for a child free flight. I think airlines are missing a trick. I fly at least monthly and my least favourite thing about it is children and their entitled parents. YABU, a baby is not a disability, you absolutely could have queued.

Are you sure that wasn’t just to get them in the right queue? At Stansted they want everyone in the e-gate queue unless it’s a family as children can’t use the e-gates so they go in a separate queue. I can assure you it’s no faster when it’s half term, although when it’s not half term it’s brilliant!

YANBU. It is not as if this is a bus that might get too full, or a supermarket where they could have made a speedier exit if you hadn't jumped the queue. The plane won't leave until everyone has boarded. So if it's easier to board babies first, that's fine. It makes zero difference to their journey.

Some people will find anything to grouch about.

I travel a lot with a disabled person and having seen the shit that they get on a regular basis for not “looking disabled”, even when they have the right lanyard, the medical documentation, everything they need to avail themself of priority boarding…

If I saw someone jumping the check in line, not even the boarding bit, the bloody check in line - and justifying it cos they have a baby!!!!, I’d be cross too.

And arf at the person calling it “barbaric” that mums don’t get to board first.

Oh what lovely charitable people you all are🙄

What makes you so special that you've managed to produce a baby?

Meh wouldn’t bother me.

but then the few times we have been abroad we get super priority (DS is severely disabled) so we get a fast track through check in, security, passport control and board the plane first.

but not one of these things means we actually leave on the plane any quicker than anybody else, they just make our journey a little more bearable (as well as more bearable for other passengers)