Family kicked off plane after toddler has a tantrum

[anonymous-user]

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[normalbloke]

I'd have applauded the crew!

[Puggit]

There's a safety issue there - if the toddler needs physically restraining then it's not safe to take off. And I say this as the father of a 3 year old and 5 year old.

[kelk]

Good result

Having sat nr a child going loopy and ther parents just shrugging with a facial expression of "What am I supposed to do?" I'm glad the pilot took the action he did.

{awaits PH parents to state that I simply do not understand]

[Zaxxon]

kelk said:

Good result

Having sat nr a child going loopy and ther parents just shrugging with a facial expression of "What am I supposed to do?" I'm glad the pilot took the action he did.

{awaits PH parents to state that I simply do not understand]

This PH parent fully agrees with you. Parents that don't give a crap that that their kids are kicking off are selfish and lazy.

[simoid]

Article said:

On the airline's website, JetBlue have a 'Customer Bill of Rights', where they state: 'JetBlue Airways is dedicated to bringing humanity back to air travel.'

Humanity being not having to endure screaming kids for 4 hours.

[MacW]

simoid said:

Article said:

On the airline's website, JetBlue have a 'Customer Bill of Rights', where they state: 'JetBlue Airways is dedicated to bringing humanity back to air travel.'

Humanity being not having to endure screaming kids for 4 hours.

Exactly how I interpreted it too.

[Eric Mc]

That airline has just gone up a notch, in my view.

[Devil2575]

I wouldn't take my kids anywhere near an airline until they were older. At 2 a child is unable to comunicate it's feelings and it's mood is hugely affected by how tired it is. My 3 year old used to have terrible tantrums when he was 2 for no other reason that he was over tired.
The only course of action that worked was leaving him in his cot to calm down and go to sleep. On a plane he would have been a nightmare for us and everyone else.
Parents shouldn't take toddlers on planes, it's not fair on the kids appart from anyone else.

Having kids involves sacrifice. If you don't like that don't have kids.

[Super Injunction]

Devil2575 said:

Parents shouldn't take toddlers on planes, it's not fair on the kids appart from anyone else.

Having kids involves sacrifice. If you don't like that don't have kids.

That is a sweeping statement - my kids have flown since they were 3 months old and have ben fine on each trip. I agree in part though, if you have kids that are prone to acting up when tired or for whatever reason then don't put them in a situation where it could be an issue.

[Hooli]

normalbloke said:

I'd have applauded the crew!

Hear hear.

[Zaxxon]

Super Injunction said:

That is a sweeping statement - my kids have flown since they were 3 months old and have ben fine on each trip. I agree in part though, if you have kids that are prone to acting up when tired or for whatever reason then don't put them in a situation where it could be an issue.

I agree with this, our daughter was flying from about 9 months. If we thought that she would kick off then she wouldn't have flown. Apart from the ears popping thing she was pretty calm and the ears popping only lasts a few minutes. To keep her calm both my wife and I (mainly my wife though) had to pay constant attention to her all through the flight, we used to wrap up tiny cheap presents that we would give to her if she ever got bored etc. We would be knackered but the other passengers would not be pissed off at our daughter.

[Leithen]

15 month old daughter has done 18 flights so far and racked up 28,500 miles.

She's been an absolute angel on each flight. If she did kick off at all then we'd re-think future plans, but for the moment no problems.

[simoid]

anonymous said:

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You're dangerously close to suggesting a screaming child on a plane caused deaths in a car crash there...

[OllieC]

simoid said:

anonymous said:

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You're dangerously close to suggesting a screaming child on a plane caused deaths in a car crash there...

quite, if the guy was that tired he shouldnt have been driving, regardless as to why.

[arfur]

OllieC said:

simoid said:

anonymous said:

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You're dangerously close to suggesting a screaming child on a plane caused deaths in a car crash there...

quite, if the guy was that tired he shouldnt have been driving, regardless as to why.

He was trying to get as far away as possible from the screaming child ;-)

[OllieC]

arfur said:

OllieC said:

simoid said:

anonymous said:

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You're dangerously close to suggesting a screaming child on a plane caused deaths in a car crash there...

quite, if the guy was that tired he shouldnt have been driving, regardless as to why.

He was trying to get as far away as possible from the screaming child ;-)

ah well in that case I can quite sympathise

[Fastra]

2 kids, now 12 and 17, and I can honestly say they've never had a single public tantrum (or in private for that matter)!
Yes they've had fits of crying or being upset over something trivial but nothing that we weren't able to calm after a minute or so.

[Puggit]

My 3 year old, aged 18 months at the time, had the mother of all tantrums in Gatwick passport control - but at least we got her that far

[Mojocvh]

Devil2575 said:

I wouldn't take my kids anywhere near an airline until they were older. At 2 a child is unable to comunicate it's feelings and it's mood is hugely affected by how tired it is. My 3 year old used to have terrible tantrums when he was 2 for no other reason that he was over tired.
The only course of action that worked was leaving him in his cot to calm down and go to sleep. On a plane he would have been a nightmare for us and everyone else.
Parents shouldn't take toddlers on planes, it's not fair on the kids appart from anyone else.

Having kids involves sacrifice. If you don't like that don't have kids.

^^^^THIS^^^^