Babies on Planes

Tannin · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:42 am

Um ... Are overhead lockers waterproof?

1061 · Joined: 06 Sep 2013

Just double pad them.

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

partypie · Joined: 01 Oct 2010

I have been really lucky in not being bothered by babies when flying, including mine. I would give a small dose of Panadol prior in case the ears got sore. I would not travel with a sick baby and I suspect that is why some cry a lot when flying. perhaps airlines could help by making it easier to change flights if a child is sick. Getting angry at the parents only makes them more stressed and less able to soothe the baby.

partypie · Joined: 01 Oct 2010

Personally I find adults who kick the seat constantly or put their seats back too far far more annoying.

Jezza · 2023 PREMIERS! Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

Modern day Parenting has turned parents into arseholes and their children into spoilt little brats. I get the parents at football, helicopter parents hovering over their children like he is the next Nathan Buckley, he isn't but let's get him to play and enjoy his footy in a team. Then you get the parents who take their kids out to a nice restaurant and whilst they enjoy their wine their little yard apes are running around and the parents are oblivious just like the are when the child is home with them. Those same parents that your on a flight with. The kids kicking the back of your seat and you ask nicely a few times for them to control their child and then you have had enough and tell them if their child kicks you chair your going to punch them, not the child but the parent. The first person that usually says no to the child is a police officer. And then we have all hell break out and the parents yell victimisation. Now we have more women 40 and above having children and I know plenty of them and good luck to them but the ones I know are Rich Middle Class and barely spend time with them and then we have the child in day care, baby sitters regularly as Mum and Dad still want their social life of course. Times have well and truly changed. If I took my kids out for dinner and they were noisy, bang we had stuff put in containers and we were out of their as I was concerned about other patrons. What we have now are selfish parents breeding selfish children where it's all about them and what the child wants the child gets. Heaven forbid to actually say NO.

See what happens when you get old? You lose tolerance over petty things.

HAL · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:51 pm

I see. When I get older I might like to go into law or politics.

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

stui magpie · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 5:20 pm

Wokko · Come and take it. Joined: 04 Oct 2005

Reclining on modern aircraft with enough leg room for a dwarf is bad form if someone is behind you. Especially if they're using their table for eating.

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

stui magpie · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:14 pm

15 hours fair enough, I had some douche nozzle decide to recline his seat on a 1 hour flight while I was using the tray table. It does change the leg room, the back of the seat is right on my knees.

I gave that bastard buggery until he got the hint and put the seat forward again.