Outraged flyer reveals what young child did in business class that 'ruined his flight' - are his complaints fair?

Daily Mail UK ^ | July 18, 2025 | Sophie Gable

[Morgana]

A United Airlines passenger was left infuriated over what he claimed was the bad behavior of a young child flying in the business class cabin.

Mitchell Miller shared two snaps of a little boy standing on his United Polaris seat on a transatlantic flight to Paris on his Threads account.

'An immature father who lets his son scream and shout and stand up in the seat and jump up and down so far for the whole flight,' Miller wrote.

'The kid hasn’t ST*U (shut the **** up) since we took off and daddy couldn’t care less. 4 hours, 52 minutes so far…2 more hours of this [expletive]. Can we get children under 12 banned from business class…please??'

The post sparked a fiery debate over whether kids should be allowed to fly business or first class, where seats cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars.

'You should have shamed them more. Bad parents deserve it. This isn’t acceptable. Child is in a public place,' one comment agreed.

Another commenter shared a similar experience when they were on a flight with a child screaming for their mom, standing and jumping on their seat, and running up and down the aisles during a 7.5 hour business class trip.

'The whole cabin was fuming. A baby I get, like annoying but it’s a baby, this was a full child that they actively ignored and didn’t once attempt to calm down or discipline,' the comment continued.

[stanne]

Define right. Then define obligation

You changed the subject from on sentence to the next

Waste of tmw

[DugwayDuke]

stanne wrote: :Define right. Then define obligation”

Your lack of understanding those simple concepts explains a lot.

[stanne]

This is simple

Are you asking does she have the right?

Or are you asking to they have the obligation

Or both?

[DugwayDuke]

stanne wrote: “This is simple.”

Yes, it is indeed simple. I don’t know why you’re having such a problem with these simple questions:

Why do you believe parents have a right to allow their child to annoy anyone around them?
Why do you believe parents do not have an obligation to control their annoying child?

[stanne]

“ Why do you believe parents do not have an obligation to control their annoying child?”

Please provide a quote where I said this

If you cannot respond without being nasty and argumentative then please don’t proceed

I believe you have the right to be nasty but that you are obligated by the rules of free republic to not be nasty

[DugwayDuke]

stanne wrote: “Please provide a quote where I said this.”

stanne wrote: “The parents have a right to have an annoying child.” Post #130

[stanne]

Exasperating, like a misbehaving child on a business flight

Provide a quote where I said “parents do not have an obligation to control their annoying child?”

[DugwayDuke]

stanne wrote: “Provide a quote where I said “parents do not have an obligation to control their annoying child?”

I just did. If you have a right to an annoying child, then there is no obligation to control that annoying child.

[stanne]

Obligation and right are two different words two different meanings

I would rather be on a business class trip to Paris right now having overpaid by $3000 with an annoying child than continue this pretzel logic conversation. So please exercise the obligation you demand of others and stop annoying me