chris
11-30-2005, 03:26 AM
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/airlines-in-hot-seat-over-child-policies/2005/11/29/1133026469460.html
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http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2460852/
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I disagree with this policy of airlines, it is absolutely mad. Firstly, it's discrimination to have to be moved because of some noisy, mischeivous little brat flying on a plane un-accompanied.
The solution should be to stop children flying on planes unaccompanied. If you've chosen a seat well in advance, you should reasonably be able to keep that seat. If someone should be moved, it should be the child, as they are the one causing the inconvenience by travelling alone.
And the big issue with this whole thing is that the responses of people to topics such as this tend to be very irrational. Someone getting moved because of this automatically becomes guilty regardless.. Inevitably, the gossip queens and kings do their thing, and sure enough, the unlucky victim would end up defamed or worse.
Really, as a parent, should you even let young children travel alone? I would have thought it should be a common decency for the parent to travel with their child(ren) as a respect to other passengers to make sure the child is safe and well-behaved on the flight.
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http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2460852/
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I disagree with this policy of airlines, it is absolutely mad. Firstly, it's discrimination to have to be moved because of some noisy, mischeivous little brat flying on a plane un-accompanied.
The solution should be to stop children flying on planes unaccompanied. If you've chosen a seat well in advance, you should reasonably be able to keep that seat. If someone should be moved, it should be the child, as they are the one causing the inconvenience by travelling alone.
And the big issue with this whole thing is that the responses of people to topics such as this tend to be very irrational. Someone getting moved because of this automatically becomes guilty regardless.. Inevitably, the gossip queens and kings do their thing, and sure enough, the unlucky victim would end up defamed or worse.
Really, as a parent, should you even let young children travel alone? I would have thought it should be a common decency for the parent to travel with their child(ren) as a respect to other passengers to make sure the child is safe and well-behaved on the flight.