Posted on 01/22/2007 10:51:57 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
Best. Flight Crew. Ever.
Parents should do what we did, invest in one of those portable DVD players and bring them on board a flight, it is a great way to keep the little ones calm during the flight.
How about ... don't bring young children on airplanes unless absolutely necessary
If they can do it with one of them, why not ALL of them???
I hate when little children have free reign in the aisleways.....running back and forth drives me crazy.
And I don't blame the Kuleszas. America West Airlines lost my business for a situation closely related to this. Right after Christmas 2000, the Mrs and I (the kids were not here yet,) were flying America West from Oakland to San Antonio, and we had a stop in Phoenix. When we boarded the plane in Phoenix, my wife and I took off our jackets and put them under the seats in front of us. Unbeknownst to us, the kid seating on the seat in front of my wife saw the jacket poke out, pulled it out, and handed it over to his parents, who called the stewardess and had it removed off the airplane. During the push away from the gate, my wife goes to check her jacket pockets, to make sure her gloves were still in...imagine her displeasure when she couldn't find the jacket!
We called for the stewardess, and we were told we couldn't do a thing, because the jacket was already off the aircraft and sent to the Lost and Found of Phoenix's airport!
Fast forward to the actual in-flight...I went to the stewardesses to try and figure out a way what the airline could do about this situation...next thing I know, my wife is there...seems one of the stewardesses called for her to come get me, because I was "getting violent towards them." They even threatened to land in El Paso and having me removed!!!
Needless to say, we have never again flown America West and I refuse to give them a penny.
She was three. Isn't that small enough to pick up? It seems to me that these were the kind of parents who are afraid of traumatizing the little darling and find it preferable to let her sit in the aisle and scream. Were they from the Upper West Side of Manhattan, by any chance?
You must have missed this part of the story:
So on Jan. 11, the family flew from Logan Airport to Fort Meyers on AirTran Airways, and even though it was Elly’s first plane trip she behaved like a dream and spent most of the flight coloring in her coloring book and watching movies on a portable DVD player...
On my last trip to Florida a young mother started giving her three young children benadryl about 1/2 an hour before we were scheduled to take off. She caught me watching her and I thanked her. She laughed and said it was for her sanity as well.
They were angels. Sleeping angels.
They went to visit her GRANDPARENTS.
I have and it ain't fun
Ah, my son had a screaming child on his flight from Philly to Frankfurt, Germany. He still talks about the trauma! LOL
I experienced a similar meltdown from my son (now 5) a few years ago. This was on Southwest so we were amongst the first to board and his screams could be heard all the way back to the lounge. I managed to get him strapped in for the roll-back and by the time we were cleared for takeoff he'd spent himself and was fast asleep.
It was, however, the first and last Southwest flight I've ever seen that loaded from back to front.
Kids that age can be tricky. For the return flight he was a complete darling!
Don't bring small children to the opera or plays or on airplanes unless absolutely necessary and IMHO visiting the grandparents ain't good enough reason
I've only flown once (a long time ago) so I'm not an expert at what people go through when flying. However, I've sat next to screaming kids when out to dinner and it makes for a very unpleasant meal.
How about everyone with kids stays locked in the basement until the kids are 20? What were they supposed to do? The kid was fine on the flight to their destination. How were they supposed to know the kid was going to throw a fit? Were they supposed to say "OK, I think the kid is gont to cry today, I guess we'll just cancel our return home & I'll miss my work tomorrow?"
It's impossible to know when a 3-year-old is going to go off. It happens.
Maybe they could have picked the kid up & walked around to calm them, but it sounds like the stewardess wanted that kid strapped in its seat. Which probably would not have helped calm the kid at all.
Yup ... there is always someone who thinks that the rest of us should suffer their brats
I hate all airlines, airline procedures, and every last airline employee I have ever encountered.
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