Children in 1st class

[j*oono]

A  father has written a nasty piece about a disgruntled passenger in first class that was seated next to his toddler daughter.  

Is he for real?  I would have been furious to have paid for a first class airline ticket and then be forced into baby sitting a two year old.  

I think the airline was wrong and the father is a nong.  What do you think?

http://www.perthnow.com.au/travel/travel-news/plane-fury-over-child-in-first-class/story-fnho5w8j-12...

[cherry*135]

Maybe. Not 100% clear whether the mother paid to go 1st class this trip or got upgraded. Father say she deserves, same as the man does, every upgrade she gets. If there was space to upgrade 1 person why choose a mother & child sharing one seat?

The man asked for a discount because he was forced to sit by a child in 1st class.. but.. was only in 1st class because he was upgraded?

Story would have been better if the mother wrote an account of it imo.

[azureline**]

I just don't get why people think if they pay for 1st class ticket, they can choose who else is allowed to sit next to them.

There is no guarantee given.

[cherry*135]

This flight was domestic,  short haul, 2.5 hours so not sure what type of 1st class seats they would have on that flight.

Long haul flights you walk past business class to get to economy. The business seats are quite large/reclining and spaced out,  no touching elbows there. I have never seen the 1st class seats - some planes they are upstairs now, with spa suites as well.

Unless airlines ban children from 1st class seats, there will always be the chance another passenger may end up sitting next to a child.

[*elizabeths-mum*]

"FA approached my wife after about 15 minutes of 1K sighing and grumbling and getting up and down and told my wife that she needed to reseat my wife and child because another passenger was having a bad day and needed a window seat, and asked her to move to another seat three rows back. My wife of course can see right through this - but then had to gather up all her items she had placed in her seat area (iPad, cups, snacks, books, toys) two bags, and a child. Relocated PAX never opened the window.

1K should have been relocated instead."

Quoted from the father on the airline forum.

I didn't realise you could open windows on a plane???

[*elizabeths-mum*]

Reading more of the airline forum the father is an absolute prat,  his reply to a post in italics below:

"

Quote: Originally Posted by gobluetwo  Except that the OP wasn't traveling on that flight - his wife and child were. He had no opportunity " to confront the other party or fix the problem." Oh.. Believe me... Had I been on that flight, and 1K started that **bleep** sitting next to me - he most likely would have been removed. All I would have had to do was just hint that 1K had threatened under his breath to slap my child if she caused a scene - and I'm sure action would have been taken. I'm a multi year 1K, GS and I'm sure that counts for something. The way my wife reported he was behaving, I'm sure that the staff would have believed me.

"

[*pepe]

so he openly brags he would have lied - yet we are supposed to believe his account?

nup, not buying it.

[azureline**]

he also apologised for his hypothetical

It isn't far fetched enough to believe it didn't happen as he says, he did post pics of his child there.

[*elizabeths-mum*]

It only became a hypothetical after he realised that he had lost all credibility. 

[azureline**]

well, no, after a doubter said he lost it.

[*elizabeths-mum*]

Are we reading the same forum, azure?

There was one post asking him if that was true (ie had the male passenger threatened the child) and 5 posts, possibly 6 depending on what the person scared of the mod was going to say, accusing him of lying/bs-ing and telling him he had no credibility before he called it a hypothetical

He has posted 2 photos of a cute smiling child on different planes but that doesn't mean she is always going to be an angel and who really knows how she was behaving at the time?