Letter: Who's a starter for adults-only airlines?
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OPINION: Everyone who's been trapped on a flight with uncontrolled children will sympathise with Labour list MP Charles Chauvel and admire his restraint.
Few things are worse than hours of kids continuously screaming, kicking seats and running up and down aisles.
The pangs of despair when one sees a pair of zombie-like parents approaching, with kids in tow, and laden with rucksacks of nappies, toys and other accoutrements of breeding can be appreciated only by those who have truly suffered.
Invariably, the parents are in Zen-like oblivion - until, that is, someone asks them to quieten their brats. Then they react with the ferocity of a she-wolf whose cubs are threatened. Or an ACT member who recognises a Labour MP.
The first airline to have adults-only flights will make a killing.
LOU GIRARDIN
Nelson
- © Fairfax NZ News
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Like the idea but alas I doubt the dream will be come a reality.
My dream to see a jet fitted out like one of those Japanese hotels where everyone has a 'capsule' to sleep in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel
The whole plane would be kitted out as a sleeper for the long haul flights.I reckon on the red eye flights , or the direct flights to Britain,etc the market would be there too.
Totally agree with you Lou but a bit impracticle. Living in the UK I travel home once a year to visit my folks and have had the same horrendous experience of uncontrolled kids on long haul flights. Worse experience was on a flight from BKK-SYD when a baby seated adjacent was left to scream at 140 decibels for over 2 hours while the mother calmly sat reading her book, barely blinking an eye lid to all the comotion. Eventually a stewardess came along and took it away and disposed of it in the appropriate manner and thankfully we never saw it again and all became quiet. That experience told me the only way to travel long haul is business class and hang the expense, what bliss it is!
Who's a starter for an airline who doesnt allow self-important bigots on their planes? And lets leave out the mysogonist, homophobic religious rednecks, fat or smelly people, people who snore, or loudmouth drunks and people who insist on talking when you want to sleep. Might as well leave the pilot out too, then there will be no-one left.
I had an impression this was a kid friendly country and was the best place to bring them up - even better than our neighbours across the ditch.
Or was I wrong in that perception?
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They disposed of the baby! Blooming heck, what was that airline!