Air Asia to start childfree area on plane

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Basically they are going to start offering a few rows on longer haul flights to only those over 12 years old.

Having a child myself I don't have any problem with this so long as when people are booking they have the option of choosing this type of ticket otherwise if the plane fills with no one sitting in the child free section what happens to people with children who check in late?

As for the support for childfree flight I'm totally against this it's already hard to find cheap flights home limiting my choice of flights by making some childfree would make this more expensive for those with kids.
 
Made one couple with a screaming kid very uncomfortable the other week, the little darling wouldn't shut up, unfortunately for them I was flying with 8 clients so we took up most of business class, needless to say the couple with the screaming kid enjoyed the flight less than we did.

Payback in my books!
 
jas72 said:
As for the support for childfree flight I'm totally against this it's already hard to find cheap flights home limiting my choice of flights by making some childfree would make this more expensive for those with kids.
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Why would the cost of a childless flight be passed on to people with children? I'd have thought the benefit of having a flight with no children would be a chargeable luxury.

I'd gladly pay.
 
I've flown all over the world in the last ten years and have only ever been on one flight where a child has annoyed me and this was fortunately only a short(ish) internal flight in Brazil. I have however been on a large number of flights where adults have annoyed me to the point of me wishing death upon them.
 
Mikeyboy said:
Why would the cost of a childless flight be passed on to people with children? I'd have thought the benefit of having a flight with no children would be a chargeable luxury.

I'd gladly pay.
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If the scheduled service is 4 flights a day but 2 are childfree this means there are only 2 flights for parents to choose from they fill up faster and thus the price goes up. It's nothing to do with the cost of flights simply the amount of flights to choose from. Childfree people have 4 flights to choose from and thus pay less (ie more choice and can choose the cheapest option)
 
Sounds ok as long as people are not charged more. Have to pay already for the extra luggage if I want to take all my climbing gear and yet the fatties get their ass Kg allowance for free ...
 
I have been on plenty of flights and have never really been bothered by kids.

They seem to sleep and only start crying during landing.

Might be the noise cancelling headphones though...
 
Can't say i've been annoyed by them, but I can see why some people have been. Decent way of helping with that I guess.
 
jas72 said:
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If the scheduled service is 4 flights a day but 2 are childfree this means there are only 2 flights for parents to choose from they fill up faster and thus the price goes up. It's nothing to do with the cost of flights simply the amount of flights to choose from. Childfree people have 4 flights to choose from and thus pay less (ie more choice and can choose the cheapest option)
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Most people don't fly with young children so the flights without kids fill up faster (whatever the reality, the idea of kids on planes leaves most people cold), leaving less people taking the flights with kids and thus they reduce costs to fill all the seats.

You can make some base assumptions to work it to any conclusion you want but basically you don't know and the commercials will even out to whatever people are willing to pay in the end.
 
Only 12 seems a bit of a waste.

Can't say I've been annoyed by kids really. More annoyed by 16 - mid 20s and loud stereos.

A few crying babies which has been a bit annoying.
 
If you don't have children you are already paying for everyone else's children's "family allowances", dental care, prescriptions, education and housing (in some cases). I think an airline or two offering adult only flights is only fair.
 
jas72 said:
As for the support for childfree flight I'm totally against this it's already hard to find cheap flights home limiting my choice of flights by making some childfree would make this more expensive for those with kids.
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Spoken like a parent.

Im ALL for this, kids are the most annoying things on the planet, its difficult to explain to parents as obviously they all think their kids are little angels, when 99.99999999% of the time, they are not.

Well done air line.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Made one couple with a screaming kid very uncomfortable the other week, the little darling wouldn't shut up, unfortunately for them I was flying with 8 clients so we took up most of business class, needless to say the couple with the screaming kid enjoyed the flight less than we did.

Payback in my books!
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Nice.

I mean, did you consider at any point that the kid was ill? Or that, very often, it's simply impossible to silence an unhappy kid, especially on a flight? Many young kids hate the confined space, just like many adults - they're so used to toddling around like mad and then boom, they're stuck in place for hours with virtually nothing to do. Have you got kids? Obviously not otherwise you wouldn't have done what you say you did.

A flight is not a practical place to have a meeting and it's certainly not somewhere people should expect to find silence and peace... It's never been that way for obvious reasons.

Yes, you can probably tell I have kids. One now and one due any week now. Flying with kids is absolute hell on earth (or, off earth... as the case may be). Trust me when I say - the LAST thing you want to do if you encounter a loud/annoying kid on a flight is make them even more troublesome by causing problems yourself.

Try to see it from the other side for a second.
 
Combat squirrel said:
Spoken like a parent.

Im ALL for this, kids are the most annoying things on the planet, its difficult to explain to parents as obviously they all think their kids are little angels, when 99.99999999% of the time, they are not.

Well done air line.
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No they don't. Most of us acknowledge that our kids are a total PITA on flights. We're not kidding ourselves! We hate it as much as the other passengers except that we have the added nightmare of having the things wriggling all over us spilling our drinks/food all over the place etc.
 
I was returning from Spain about a month or so ago and this kid wouldn't shut up for about 30 minutes. The dad was doing everything he could. Even started smacking it in the end but no no avail. It was bad for him and everyone else on the plane.

I think this is a good idea as long as it isn't used as a money making exercise. If the no kids seats are more expensive then the with kids seats should be cheaper and overall the same profit is made.

It is better for people without kids as they don't get annoyed by crying babies and better for people with kids as they know everyone in that section has a kid and might be more understanding or chose to be in that section by bringing a child or simply not wanting to pay extra or doesn't care.

But lets face it, it is going to be used as a money making exercise and I for one probably won't plump for the kid free seating for extra cash.
 
I have flown long haul to Orlando three times with my son when he was 2 years, 4 years and 6 years old. He has never cried, complained or been a nuisance and happily sits with his DS playing Mario Kart, looking out the window or sleeping.

You cannot blanket ban kids from flights without taking into account the others who cause problems. On one trip back home from Orlando, a gentleman who had imbibed too much booze (helped by his wife when the stewardesses stopped serving him) fell asleep in the toilet and promptly put it out of action when he awoke, didn't realise where he was and smashed the toilet up.

Another incident which led to three hours on the tarmac in North Carolina in stifling heat was the chap who had suffered a heart attack after refusing to listen to his surgeons advice. His wife blurted out to the cabin staff that he had been told not to fly but because the travel agents wouldn't refund the whole amount of their holiday (they where keeping the deposit), he insisted on travelling anyway.

Getting away from flights to Florida, my only experience with Ryan Air was a three hour flight to Magaluf where drunks made a pest of themselves for the entire flight as the trolly dollies dutifully kept up with the supply and demand of copious amounts of alcohol without telling them to quiet down whatsoever.
 
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