| How about adult-only long haul airline flights? |
| Here is an idea for a new airline marketing program for inter-continental flights. Anecdotal responses from people I've mentioned it to suggest that it would be very popular. How about a flight that is restricted to passengers aged 6 yrs and up? (Or 10, or whatever limit is deemed appropriate.) I can tell you from my many intercontinental flights that among even a small number of very young children, at least one of them will turn into a screaming siren-mouth at some point during the last half of the flight, so that that entire last half becomes an entombed hell for the other 400-odd passengers. This may seem like a radical idea that you would dismiss out of hand, but it wasn't so long ago that the idea of banning smoking from long-haul flights seemed radical. And if you think about it, the issue is very similar. A small group with a bad idea (smoking in a small confined area, taking small children on international flights) make an already inherently uncomfortable situation unbearable. I am absolutely certain that people on long-haul flights who do not travel with small children will ALWAYS select these flights if their schedules permit. The resulting popularity of this policy would be to segregate people who think it's a good idea for a small child to visit Europe (or wherever) to one flight while the rest of us have the opportunity to fly "brat-free." Just as non-smoking flights now engender praise for airlines, the first to implement this will be heroes! |
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