Beware travelers with bratty kids

I think AirTran did the correct thing..
they got a noisy kid off a plane.. refunded tickets and got the family home
the next day..
1 ****ed off family..
112 happy travelers..
families do not travel much..
business people travel a lot..
who would you rather keep happy..

BT

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http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dl...0121/COLUMN01/...

After reading the second account (with the appropriate spin) it does
seem AirTran was a bit heavy-handed here. I think they did the right
thing by refunding the tickets and offering the free passes. I know if
I were stuck sitting behind that kid I'd go out of my tree after too
long

"BT" wrote:
I think AirTran did the correct thing..
they got a noisy kid off a plane.. refunded tickets and got the family home
the next day..
1 ****ed off family..
112 happy travelers..
families do not travel much..
business people travel a lot..
who would you rather keep happy..

Agree 100%. Kudos to AirTran.

Apparently the brat AND her parents do not understand cause and effect.
Behave like a out-of-control monster that makes life miserable and/or
unsafe for everyone else and there are consequences--in this case, not
traveling until a later, when she was under control. I love kids as much
as the next person, but IMO, restaurants should do the same when an
out-of-control, screaming brat is running around making the meal
miserable for other paying customers, too.

Kingfish wrote:

http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dl...0121/COLUMN01/...


After reading the second account (with the appropriate spin) it does
seem AirTran was a bit heavy-handed here. I think they did the right
thing by refunding the tickets and offering the free passes. I know if
I were stuck sitting behind that kid I'd go out of my tree after too
long

We will never know what the real story was. I was on a flight once
where the flight attendant repeatedly told the parents to have their
child sit down as the seatbelt sign was on and it was for the child's
own protection. The parents would duly buckle up the kid and as soon as
the FA turned her back the kid was running around again. I informed the
FA the kid was up (climbing over unoccupied seats, etc.) and the FA told
me it was the 4th time she'd dealt with them. Mind you this kid was ok,
it was the parents who were idiots. The kid wasn't whining or crying or
anything when seated properly. The FA had the captain turn off the belt
sign and when she had time came and sat in the empty seat next to me and
we chatted about the horrors of passengers.

Margy

Steve Foley wrote:

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

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



Here's a link from a local paper

http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dl...8/NEWS02?page1



Several years ago my wife and I headed to Athens, Greece from NYC, a 10
hour flight. We had a 4 year old boy that would not be quiet for the
whole time. Screemed and kicked all the way and he was sitting right
next to us. About two hours from the end the guy behind then stood up
and said that if they didn't quiet the kid, he would. I thought there
was going to be fight right there. I felt sorry for the parents, that he
just wouldn't quiet down. I would have thought the kid would have worn
himself to sleep.

--

Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI

In article ,
Ross wrote:

Steve Foley wrote:

"Kingfish" wrote in message
ups.com...

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

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



Here's a link from a local paper

http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dl...LUMN01/7012104
59/1008/NEWS02?page1



Several years ago my wife and I headed to Athens, Greece from NYC, a 10
hour flight. We had a 4 year old boy that would not be quiet for the
whole time. Screemed and kicked all the way and he was sitting right
next to us. About two hours from the end the guy behind then stood up
and said that if they didn't quiet the kid, he would. I thought there
was going to be fight right there. I felt sorry for the parents, that he
just wouldn't quiet down. I would have thought the kid would have worn
himself to sleep.

My wife used to be a flight attendant. Her favorite saying in dealing
with brats is, "Shut up, kid, or I'll stuff a dirty diaper in your
mouth."

I was in line at a store one time behind a bratty kid who was causing
all kinds of ruckus.

I said it and he shut up. When I got to the checkout clerk, she laughed
and told me that another kid in an adjacent line had started to fuss,
too, and had shut up when I said it.

My wife used to be a flight attendant. Her favorite saying in dealing
with brats is, "Shut up, kid, or I'll stuff a dirty diaper in your
mouth."

The ruckas wasn't the problem. The failure to get her spoiled butt into
a seat with a seat belt around her so the plane could depart was.

My worst flight ever was a night flight from Japan to Seattle (IIRC),
in which I was pretty much surrounded by the members of a boys sports
team of some sort (hockey, I think). I was tired, and ready for sleep -
but wouldn't get any that night. Those kids were hyper - and there were
three across in the row behind me. They all had newly purchased
electronic gizmos that they played incessantly. The one behind me kept
pounding on his with his fingers. Of course it was on the tray table
(which As I pointed out to him repeatedly, was directly connected to my
seat). He couldn't keep his hands off of it. The final straw came when
one of them went to the restroom. On his return he dragged his gizmo
across my face in the process of returning to his seat. I jumped up and
made quite a scene - and finally provoked a response from their coach.

Having had enough of that scene, I went and appropriated an empty seat
in a section reserved for the crew. They tried to get me to go back,
but I told them nothing doing - if they wanted to keep the peace on
that flight, they had better leave me alone. They did.

David Johnson

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says...
My worst flight ever was a night flight from Japan to Seattle (IIRC),
in which I was pretty much surrounded by the members of a boys sports
team of some sort (hockey, I think). I was tired, and ready for sleep -
but wouldn't get any that night. Those kids were hyper - and there were
three across in the row behind me. They all had newly purchased
electronic gizmos that they played incessantly. The one behind me kept
pounding on his with his fingers. Of course it was on the tray table
(which As I pointed out to him repeatedly, was directly connected to my
seat). He couldn't keep his hands off of it. The final straw came when
one of them went to the restroom. On his return he dragged his gizmo
across my face in the process of returning to his seat. I jumped up and
made quite a scene - and finally provoked a response from their coach.

Having had enough of that scene, I went and appropriated an empty seat
in a section reserved for the crew. They tried to get me to go back,
but I told them nothing doing - if they wanted to keep the peace on
that flight, they had better leave me alone. They did.

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"The next time you find yourself on a plane, sitting next to someone who
cannot resist chattering to you endlessly, I urge you to quietly pull
your laptop out of your bag, carefully open the screen (ensuring the
irritating person next to you can see it), and hit this link:

http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf
"

--
Duncan

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:33:46 +1300, Duncan wrote:

and hit this link:

http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf

don't do it in the US. You might be declared an enemy combatant (see
signature).

But hey, it is funny :-)

#m
--
I am not a terrorist. http://www.casualdisobedience.com/

Looks like something to show the screeners when they ask you to turn
your laptop on to show them it isn't a bomb.

Duncan (NZ) wrote:
one of them email funnies...
"The next time you find yourself on a plane, sitting next to someone who
cannot resist chattering to you endlessly, I urge you to quietly pull
your laptop out of your bag, carefully open the screen (ensuring the
irritating person next to you can see it), and hit this link:
http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf