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Why aren't there adult only flights? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Honestly, I will never wrap my head around how people can happily bring infants on any flight where you can expect people to try and sleep, it's incredibly lucky if they don't spend some of it screaming their heads off—I would be mortified if my choices were preventing hundreds of people from sleeping. But I'm not going to rant too hard about that.

Why on earth hasn't any airline started marketing adult-only flights?

It seems like a complete no brainer to me, I would choose it every time and pay extra for it.

Disclaimer: I may or may not be on a 36h day with only an hour of sleep right now

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well kinda said I wasn't looking to rant about this part, but okay:

When the child is two seats over, my loops are not helping. When another child is running up and down the aisle every 20 mins, ear plugs aren't the solution either.

I simply would not choose a flight where the majority of people would be trying to sleep if I were a parent. I would not want to put myself in a situation where it could even happen, no one wants to be mortified and on a long flight it approaches certainty.

A screaming child on a 4h middle-of-the-day flight is annoying but bearable. Screaming children on a double-digit hour overnight flight ruins many people's days.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Some people have families in far away countries. I hate to say it dude, but it's just one of those things.

No one enjoys screaming children in an enclosed space, especially not parents who already have to deal with child nonsense on a daily basis.

Maybe you don't see it, but these situations are really distressing for parents and it would serve humanity well if we could have a little empathy for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

This is the part that I always find mind boggling. Yeah, parents who don’t parent exist, but the vast majority want the screaming to stop just as much as anybody else, if not more…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I don’t mean this as a criticism, but I’m guessing you don’t have kids. I used to get annoyed whenever I ended up sitting next to infants on flights, but now I only get annoyed when said infants/toddlers are going wild and the parents are totally checked out.

If the parents are trying to calm their kids and it’s not working, I have nothing but sympathy for them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

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