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Why aren't there adult only flights? (self.casualconversation)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by 9point6 to c/[email protected]
 

Honestly, I will never wrap my head around how people can happily bring infants on any flight where you can expect people to try and sleep, it's incredibly lucky if they don't spend some of it screaming their heads off—I would be mortified if my choices were preventing hundreds of people from sleeping. But I'm not going to rant too hard about that.

Why on earth hasn't any airline started marketing adult-only flights?

It seems like a complete no brainer to me, I would choose it every time and pay extra for it.

Disclaimer: I may or may not be on a 36h day with only an hour of sleep right now

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[–] HootinNHollerin 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The closest thing to that I’ve experienced is flying Virgin. When I boarded they were playing downtempo house music and no kids in sight

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

To be fair, 99.999% of virgins don’t have kids, so that’s just true to brand

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

With trains, there's a designated "quiet car/coach" where things like phone calls or people being loud isn't allowed. Maybe airlines could have something similar but maybe it'd be more expensive to implement?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I truly do not understand why people don't simply wait until the kid is old enough to handle frying before travelling with an airplane. My family travelled a lot by train, or sometimes car, then when I was around 7 or 8 years old we took a short flight.

Babies really won't remember anything of the trip anyway, I really feel that travelling by plane is one of the things that you sacrifice for the first years of having a child. Call me entitled or whatever, but your childs screaming or running around on the plane is absolutely annoying to others.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is this you?

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