Woman divides opinion after slamming ‘shrieking’ kids during flights

A WOMAN has divided opinion after slamming screaming and badly behaved kids during the flight.

Writing on Mumsnet, she asked if she was being unreasonable to "despair about parenting" during her travels.

She wrote: "I recently returned from a long haul trip with connecting flights, so was on five planes altogether.

"On four of these flights I was around children whose parents just seemed to pussyfoot around them and seemed unable to control them."

She said on her first flight there was a two-year-old who was "extremely loud, continuous shrieking, disrupting his sister," and was "disturbing everyone around him".

Her second flight had a little girl who refused to sit in her seat, and ended up in the aisle while landing despite flight crew telling her not to.

During her third flight, a boy kept standing up and jumping around his seat, while on her fourth flight, kids were "shouting at each other across rows and over people's heads".

She asked if this was the norm, and people on the forum were divided.

Some said she should have more sympathy - someone said: "Personally I think adults should have more patience."

Another wrote: "Expecting toddlers/ preschoolers to travel well on a flight is pretty naive."

But most people were on her side - one said: "Flights are boring for kids but that is no excuse to let them run riot."

Another wrote: "We managed numerous plane journeys with 3 small children and never once let them annoy other folks."

if you want to avoid flights with kids, then you can - as some airlines have areas where young travellers are not allowed.

Low cost airline Scoot, which has flights between the UK and Thailand, has a child-free zone called ScootinSilence, with any kids under 12 banned.

The Sun Travel's Sophie Swietochowski tried out the airline - here is what you can expect.

They aren't the only airline to help travellers who want to avoid kids - Japan Airlines has a revolutionary feature which allows you to check where babies are sitting on a flight.

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