[Jan Fisher]

A recent incident has gone viral after a man lost his cool after a baby screamed for 45 minutes on a US flight. Some see the humour in it, but others are on his side.

Having been on both sides of this situation, I feel for everyone.

On a flight back from Sydney my then-toddler cried the whole way, only falling asleep as we landed. She had never previously behaved this way and I vowed I would never fly again. We did, of course, and she was an angel, charming all the flight attendants who whisked her off to play in their rest area.

I have also sat close to fussy babies who could not settle.

However, by far away the worst flight I have ever been on was on the way to Queensland where some of my fellow passengers were a regional footy team on their end-of-season trip.
They were so poorly behaved – throwing half-full cans of alcohol around the cabin was just one of their ‘tricks’ – I was surprised the police weren’t waiting for them at the terminal.

I’d have a fussy baby over that any time.

What’s your solution, should babies be quarantined to their own area on flights?

[justjanet]

Mission impossible ! there aren’t babies toddlers ect on every flight ,

[Cosmo]

Babies and professional footballers: a problem of infantiles!
A separate compartment for both would be well justified, we don’t pay good money to be locked up into a torture chamber for hours.
The worst flight I ever experienced was with a Middle Eastern airline from Sydney to Birminham UK. Most of the passengers seemed to be mothers taking their babies back home to the M/E probably to show grandparents. It was bedlam and the staff seemed to be at their wits end trying to maintain some order.
I thought the problem would be solved when we flew out of Dubai but the plane was filled with the sisters of the earlier passengers and their babies flying back to the UK. Our final small compensation was at the passport check when all these hijab clad ladies filled the EU passport line leaving the non EU line free for us.
Fortunately we flew back home from Munich with another airline.

[KSS]

Most of us will remember when smokers were corralled at the back of the plane. This is no different. People travelling with kids 12 and under should be placed in a single section whether completely partitioned off or not. This would have benefits for parents/carers of said kids by not having to endure pointed comments or rolling eyes of other passengers, the kids will all be together and entertain each other, the cabin crew will have all the kids in one place for feeding, provision of games and colouring books, and the adult travellors with kids would have the support of all the others traveling with kids. Win-win-win I’d say.

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