Airlines have condemned government plans to stop them charging parents to sit beside their children, warning that the changes threaten the ability to profit from making a three-year-old cry.
Airlines furious after government closes lucrative ‘pay us or your toddler sits with a stranger’ business model
16 days ago by ZeroCool to c/theonion
corsicanguppy 6 points 15 days ago
willing to pay extra for no kids
The idea of 'no kids' flights or sections has been floated before. It was, oddly, shut down as an idea.
speckofrust 3 points 15 days ago
I have no idea why there aren’t sections on planes specifically for parents and young children. All passengers win. Coughing, kicking, screaming kids make an already irritating form of transportation even more trying.
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a_non_monotonic_function 2 points 15 days ago
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BCsven 18 points 16 days ago
I was all seated ready for take off and the guy next to me (impolite tone) said "you go up there, I want to sit with my wife"
If somebody was polite I'd consider it but he was a dick, and could have paid to sit with his travel partner.
For all he knows I could have paid for this exact seat.
Pyr_Pressure 7 points 16 days ago
I fly quite often and I usually do pay for my seat. Always want an aisle seat, dislike the trapped feeling sitting in the middle or window, and never want to bother the other people if I need to get out for some reason. Also prefer to get the front of the plane to deboard faster.
corsicanguppy 7 points 15 days ago
Always want an aisle seat,
We should fly together. I'm your window weirdo who HATES airplane bathrooms, so also not gonna need to get past you for all 8 hours.
a_non_monotonic_function 1 point 15 days ago
I'm 350 pounds. You are my dream flight partner.
kryptonianCodeMonkey 2 points 15 days ago
Hope you are comfortable with her on your lap, fuckface. I ain't goin nowhere. And this is officially my armrest while we are at it. Kiss my ass.
corsicanguppy 2 points 15 days ago
If somebody was polite I’d consider it but he was a dick, and could have paid to sit with his travel partner.
This is how we know you're Canadian, and the other guy was Toronto.
Muffi 14 points 15 days ago
I was so tired of airline bullshit once when going back home from Montreal to Copenhagen, that when the airline tried to split my partner and I from sitting next to each other, so a toddler could move to their parents, I just refused... Until they offered a free upgrade to 1st class.
First time I was ever thankful for a toddler on a plane.
CannonFodder 5 points 15 days ago
Was the upgrade for just you, or your wife?
corsicanguppy 9 points 15 days ago
Had a kid sitting behind me on a flight coming home from far away. Kicked the entirety of the flight. After a few pointed looks to its parent - this is Canada, and he should have gotten the fn hint - I was gonna ask whether he wants me to teach the child some of the words I learned working on the water or as infantry. Like, maybe he keeps the kid in line or we're all gonna learn some words he'll remember for school. He seemed to finally fn get it, and I was the most relieved.
blackjam_alex 9 points 15 days ago
One Never AI Slop Kitty coupon.
answersplease77 6 points 15 days ago
You have to pay $200 to sit next to your kid and wife.. fuck these airline fees
FunStuffIsFun 4 points 15 days ago
Ugh, I bit the onion.
_lilith 3 points 15 days ago
Nothing I hate more than a family trying to switch seats with half the plane because they didn't get tickets together. If it's a first come first serve seating plane that's one thing but I have seen people pull this shit on flights where you can select your seat before hand.
jfrnz 6 points 15 days ago
Often it’s not their fault. Happened to me, our flight was canceled and we got split up. I don’t prefer relying on the kindness of strangers to ensure my children’s wellbeing on the flight but I had literally no other choice.
square 1 point 15 days ago
Uh...yes? How does that relate to them feeling entitled to impose on others because they decided to make a waking petri dish?
And they do the same shit in business/first. With most narrow-body configs being 2-2 and fewer seats available it's harder to get three in a row on short notice. They always want my aisle seat across from the 2 they got together. I almost always tell them to fuck off. I don't want to be back by the restrooms, or up by the galley, and I definitely don't want a window seat. If they want to trade for another aisle seat one row back or forward and I'm alone, maybe I'll do it, but I booked what I wanted and I don't understand how they have the gall to impose on a stranger like that. And I'm usually sitting next to my wife, but do you think that stops them? Fuck no, they will look you in the face and with no sense of irony say "do you really have to sit next to her?" Sometimes they're doing it to multiple people because their seats are scattered all over. You run into that more on wide-bodies because the seats aren't really next to each other often, many times they're kind of off-set a bit to fit the lay-flats in and if you don't understand the seating chart you might not be as close as you think. But I do understand the seating chart and I am as close to being next to my wife as I can get and don't want to move. It's even worse when they do it to people back in coach if they're trying to stick them with a center seat. I haven't been in that situation in many years but that would be an even harder no.
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I think the stranger would be the one more willing to pay extra for no kids sitting next to them.
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