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...should be banned. On the flight back from Hong Kong to London, a collection of about half a dozen small children conspired to cry, shout, wail and shriek nigh-on constantly. For twelve hours. :-(

I think it's incredibly selfish to take kids on planes when they're too young to understand what's going on, or to behave reliably. Children make noise, that's natural and expected. Forcing hundreds of other people around you to deal with that noise in an enclosed space for extended periods with no way to escape is just wrong, in my opinion.

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Re: Small children on long-haul flights...
Martin wrote on Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:00

Well, most people long-distance-travelling with small children don't do this for fun. They don't go to holidays in the traditional sense. This is a result of globalistational aspects of modern capitalism. My SO is from America, I'm European. No children are planned, but if we had, both parts of the family would want to meet the children.

My advice to you: Let the parents and children go by plane and take the train/boat. It's more ecological by the way.

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