Beware travelers with bratty kids

Jake Brodsky writes:

Yet everyone has an off day.

Anyone who has an off day can fly some other day, a day when he is
"on" instead.

I'd have given the parents a few minutes to calm the kid down.

They had 15 minutes. How late are you willing to be? How much time
do you have for your connection?

It makes for better press...

That depends on the readership. I'd be happy to fly an airline that
threw unruly passengers off, even the young ones.

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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:16:57 -0800, Jake Brodsky wrote
(in article ):

Kingfish wrote:
Can't get your kid to behave on a plane? There's always Trailways...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16773655/?GT1=8921

I'm appalled at how many of you were cheering AirTran on for their
behavior. I'm a father of three typically well behaved children.

Perhaps most of you prefer not to remember, but kids have energy: LOTS
of energy. Yes, my kids do sit still on aircraft. I've taught them
very well how to behave in airports and on board an airplane. They also
have practice from long road trips. They've done well --even my three
year old.


The parents had a few minutes. They also were given a refund, a free flight
the next day, and free round-trip tickets to anywhere the airline goes. And
still the father acts like a spoiled brat who believes that everyone else
should wait on him. Well, you see where the daughter gets it from.

Heck, you get all that for a 3 year old's tantrum, flying my grandkids to
Orlando might be profitable... :-)

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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:30:52 -0800, C J Campbell
wrote:

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:16:57 -0800, Jake Brodsky wrote
(in article ):

Kingfish wrote:
Can't get your kid to behave on a plane? There's always Trailways...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16773655/?GT1=8921

I'm appalled at how many of you were cheering AirTran on for their
behavior. I'm a father of three typically well behaved children.

Perhaps most of you prefer not to remember, but kids have energy: LOTS
of energy. Yes, my kids do sit still on aircraft. I've taught them
very well how to behave in airports and on board an airplane. They also
have practice from long road trips. They've done well --even my three
year old.


The parents had a few minutes. They also were given a refund, a free flight
the next day, and free round-trip tickets to anywhere the airline goes. And
still the father acts like a spoiled brat who believes that everyone else
should wait on him. Well, you see where the daughter gets it from.

Don't forget the part where he told the gate attendent she should stop
talking now. She should have said, no, I'm just getting started.


Heck, you get all that for a 3 year old's tantrum, flying my grandkids to
Orlando might be profitable... :-)

Good Gawd no. Mine are teen agers. The passengers and crew might
handel it well, but I don't know if I could. :-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Jake Brodsky schrieb:


Yet everyone has an off day. I don't know what the situation was with
these parents or why their kid was such a problem. When I've traveled
with my three children, I took their car seats with them on board the
airliner. It wasn't easy. However, they felt right at home and they
all behaved very well. Expecting a child to sit still in a seat they're
not familiar with is no simple affair, especially when it has so many
buttons and stuff to play with.

the kid was not seatbelted. strap the kid to the seat and let it scream
.... and the plane can depart. But the parents failed to buckle up the kid.

I'd have given the parents a few minutes to calm the kid down. It makes
for better press...

f*ck the press. and screw those parents. 2 buss loads of people had to
be delayed because of their misbehaviour.

Jake Brodsky


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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:16:57 -0500, Jake Brodsky
wrote:

Kingfish wrote:
Can't get your kid to behave on a plane? There's always Trailways...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16773655/?GT1=8921

I'm appalled at how many of you were cheering AirTran on for their
behavior. I'm a father of three typically well behaved children.
snip

I'd have given the parents a few minutes to calm the kid down. It makes
for better press...

They had already given them 15 minutes. That is far more than I'd
give. The airline has a responsibility to the passengers to get them
to the next stop and make connections if possible. If said kid causes
a delay and some one misses a connection that costs a lot of money and
more agrivation. The airline did the right thing althoug I agree they
could have used a bit more tact. As I said in another post. I'm
almost to the grand kids stage. I paid my dues and should not have to
listen to some one elses kid misbehaving no matter how much energy
they have.


Jake Brodsky
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

I'd have given the parents a few minutes to calm the kid down. It makes
for better press...

They had already given them 15 minutes. That is far more than I'd
give.

Here's what the AP Travel Editor thinks of the situation:

http://tinyurl.com/28zuf7
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On 27 Jan 2007 14:24:16 -0800, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:


I'd have given the parents a few minutes to calm the kid down. It makes
for better press...

They had already given them 15 minutes. That is far more than I'd
give.

Here's what the AP Travel Editor thinks of the situation:

http://tinyurl.com/28zuf7

Man, a reporter with her head on straight. Will wonders never
cease.:-))


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Roger wrote:
Man, a reporter with her head on straight. Will wonders never
cease.:-))

Here is the key statement from the article...

Steve Loucks, a spokesman for Carlson Wagonlit Travel, the travel
agency, said parents need to realize that, "in the post-9/11 world,
there's no room for error on airplanes. Unruly passengers, regardless of
who they are, whether it's an elderly person or a young child, can be
grounds for turning the plane around and letting them off. ... If ever
there were a place where you need to make sure your children were
behaving, this is the place."