[Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation

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

I thought that said fights at first and I started wondering where the adult vs children fights were happening.

Firstly, you probably don't have children, and therefore don't know how upsetting it is when they are screaming. They obviously don't want that.

Secondly, there are many ways to help you sleep on a flight, even if children are screaming in the seat next to you. Sleep masks, good earplugs (maybe even ANC earbuds with soothing sounds), a comfy pillow, and blanket. If all that doesn't help, try a sleeping pill. For me, this always does the trick. I have to travel a lot, with many red-eye flights, and I usually always get around 6 hours of sleep.

However, I understand it is upsetting. And I also don't understand parents that put their kids on 10-plus-hour flights just to go on vacation, and not to meet their relatives or something.

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?

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.

Is this you?