The parents and little girl were on GMA this morning, bletching about Air Tran - who actually rewarded them for the bad behavior, no less. Flew them home 24 hours later AND offered 3 more RT tickets in the future.
I had been sitting there thinking "ears - bet she has tubes in her ears or an earache." They said she acted perfectly normal on the flight down there.
Anyway, the mom *claimed* they had given her Benadryl. That normally knocks a little kid out.
Eventually, the mom also said the child had had an ear infection (must have been while they were at their destination, if she was fine on the flight down there) and had "felt some discomfort" on the earlier plane ride.
Well, she either had ear problems or didn't have ear problems, but how in the world did a little kid know in advance that it was going to hurt her ears on take-off?
That's what the mom was insisting in the interview (sounded like a made-up excuse to me).
I do think it maybe ought to be a guideline with the airlines to ask about a small child who is traveling whether or not they have or have had ear problems. That causes some of the screaming - especially little ones with tubes or whatever they use in the operations nowadays.
You forgot to mention AirTran also refunded the cost of the sad sack parents original tickets.