Actually, since airlines are charging for literally everything anymore, charge the parents for the child, not the people wanting separation from the children. Or pack all the munchkins and parents thereof in the back seats, if that can be accomplished with the computer systems.
irresponsible parents.
parents who indulge any whim of a child because they were never taught right from wrong. Parents who are nothing more that spoiled pothead drags on society.
An infant can be forgiven up to a point when you have a new mother who does not know what to do. However when she does not want any HELPFUL (not to be confused with busy body know it alls) advise about traveling with a baby she loses any protection of immunity.
(next time: airplanes as a miracle cure. Passengers who board first needing medical “extra time” but upon landing, they have amazingly healed themselves of all ills.)
From the airline’s point of view, it depends on which group of people provides more revenue, and which group is more likely to change their “flight-buying” behavior, and in what way.