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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...
Christopher Browne wrote on Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:29

I appreciate that it is desirable to be able to have "quiet enjoyment" <http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Quiet+enjoyment> of one's space on a voyage.

Broadly, this is a situation of having rights in conflict. It's reasonable to hope for quietness. Unfortunately, children aren't necessarily going to behave reasonably when under stress.

Of course, their families paid for their tickets, and didn't have an option of stowing the loud little ones in cages in the cargo hold. Realistically, they had little option but to place them where they were.

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