Let me on!So it's happened. An actual airline has issued a ban on children under the age of 12 in parts of their planes. Big parts, as Malaysia Airlines has said no kids allowed in their top level business and economy class, and no babies in their first class section on the bottom level.
While I can think of people I've travelled with who are a hell of a lot more offensive than my children, my initial anger at this proclamation from Malaysia Air has turned into joy. Why, you may ask?
Because I don't want to sit next to you either. If you find children so incredibly disturbing as fellow human beings on the earth, I'm pretty sure you're an unpleasant person and I would love for you and your misery to be seated far away from me and my (charming, sometimes loud) small children.
I don't need your nasty looks when my son announces his love for Gordon the train, or my daughter wonders out loud if we're almost there. Because for some people, every single thing a child does is offensive. Even just hanging out and being a child. Those people should have their own section on an airplane. Preferably in the back, next to the bathrooms.
Malaysia Airlines does make a point of saying their bottom economy section is family-friendly, with its own entrance and eight toilets to accommodate everyone. So I do appreciate that. In fact, that seems like a much bigger selling point than the banning of the kids upstairs.
Just remember passengers who pay for the "kid-free" section, annoying travelers come in all ages. By avoiding a child, you could be gaining a nose-picking, gas-passing over-sharer. Good luck with that.
What do you think about this new policy?
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I am also sure they were not complainijng about your kids who talk a little. They are taljing about the kids and the parents who cannot control them. If I paid good money to sit in first class, I do not want to hear whiney kids or their entitled parents.
Not wanting to sit next to a child on a plane doesn't meant hat you are a horrible person, or that you don't like kids. In a small cramped plane with no where to go I just want to be left alone and try to relax. Not sitting next to a child simply increases the odds that there wont be as much sound pollution. Of course there is going to be some lady with too much perfume on, or an over-sized person (or a person without boundaries) taking up part of your seat. But even well behaved children can be a pain if they are a chatter box.
stop it, just stop. we all know that not all kids are problematic and i'm sure yours are wonderful...but if im on an international flight (that probably cost me a grip) then it would be nice to have to option of no kids- just as i'm sure there are parents that would prefer to not get dirty looks when precious dumps his milk on a fellow passengers head. i've earned the right to peace, just as you;ve earned the right to not have to deal with people who cant understand kids are kids. now, if i'm on a flight to orlando (as i was a few weeks ago) i fully expect that i roll the dice with how the kids on my paticular flight are behaving.
Thank you, Jasmine. Just last week there was a kid behind me on a flight who kicked my seat almost the entire way from Houston to Washington, DC. I even asked nicely for him to stop and his parents gave ME dirty looks. On the return flight, there was a little girl who refused to wear her seatbelt and screamed bloody murder when her parents tried to get her to sit. She was almost run over by a beverage cart.. I'm sure these are the kind of children (and parents) that incited the ban. Not the kids who occasionally get a little loud and are corrected by their parents.
The thing is this isn't a restaurant (I was on their side) this is transportation. I could see with so mny different sections banning kids from the upper level "business" section but on a long flight I might want to spring for more leg room, particularly with little kids.