Originally Posted by gomezz:
“There was a news story this morning about some airlines considering running some of their long-haul flights as adult-only.”
That might make sense on some flights that are business-type traveller flights. Why not?
On the other hand, I regularly cart my children around the world, and the airlines, like the supermarkets, make very good money out of me. I happen to have a lot of disposable income, and airlines and supermarkets get a lot of it, largely based on the fact that I have three children. They want my business, they can compete for it. Which they do.
On the subject of pre-boarding - I tend to look at it in much the same way as I look at the Parent/Child parking spaces. It helps non-parents too. You don't want to be having to dodge toddlers running amok in Tesco's carpark any more than you want to be hanging around forever in the aisle waiting for parents to put away all the gear that they have to bring with their children, get them seated, and strap them in. I don't give a sh*t, frankly, if you have to wait while I sort them all out, but you might

. And on non-assigned-seating flights, it's obviously necessary. Unless
you want the pleasure of flying with my kids

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* "You", in this context, means "y'all", not you especially, gomezz

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