Isn’t that what happened in “Home Alone”?
The Parents sat in First Class while the kids were in coach?
Kids fly unaccompanied all the time.
Even when the parents are there they’ll kick your seat for 12 hours straight.
Shorter flight and she was 14 y.o. with her own entertainment.
How did my parents EVER make it around the world on Uncle Sugar Airlines during the 60’s, with three kids under ten?
Coming from an airline family, we were split up all the time. There may have only been 2 seats available - one in business and one in economy. I hated when my sister got to sit in First Class and I didn’t. :-)
I used to work for an airline... so I traveled a lot. I never once left my son behind by himself. If I couldn’t get a first class seat for at least my wife or I, AND the kid... I stayed back with him (and let the wife go up front by herself... got bone-us points for that.) This guy is a crappy father.
This article is too judgmental.
I think the guy who sat next to the boy thinks of business class as just a fun luxury. In fact, if you are flying overseas on a business trip, the difference between arriving via business class and arriving via coach can be dramatic. If the father has a meeting, he should sit up front. Besides, the boy is likely to fit much more comfortably in coach whereas his father would feel squeezed in.
The article does say that the father went back to check on the boy, and the flight attendants knew where he was. I would assume that they were keeping an eye on him.
Best thing we ever did was get a van. Then the turds could have their own seat.
yeah, that stinks. For the price of a half of a day of this guy’s life he has to be around a talkative child, but he gets to cross a freaking ocean and span continents in a chair that is careening through the sky like magic. He’s also able to return to a spot halfway around the earth safely and continue his voyage. I wouldn’t like the arrangement myself either, but I’d manage without a blog post on the internet. Are we really that jaded that this miracle of science and engineering is overcome by your seatmate wanting to tell you about his many minecraft adventures for several hours?
I fly first class only
Where everyone else sits is unimportant ...
Put em in the cargo bay with a blankie
I once flew business on a 14 hour flight with a screaming baby a few rows back. Not fun.
Patrick Stewart talks about an annoying man on an airplane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZywqFsafww
Would have been more amusing if he’d sicced his kid on the business class instead.
Some years ago my wife and I were flying to Hawaii in first class. At a stop in LA, Ozzy Osborne and family boarded the plane. Ozzie sat in first class while Sharon and the kids flew coach.
It did no good to say, "I. am. a. park. ranger. I am not a babysitter for your kids."