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Why aren't there adult only flights? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Honestly, I will never wrap my head around how people can happily bring infants on any flight where you can expect people to try and sleep, it's incredibly lucky if they don't spend some of it screaming their heads off—I would be mortified if my choices were preventing hundreds of people from sleeping. But I'm not going to rant too hard about that.

Why on earth hasn't any airline started marketing adult-only flights?

It seems like a complete no brainer to me, I would choose it every time and pay extra for it.

Disclaimer: I may or may not be on a 36h day with only an hour of sleep right now

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Same. I've flown more than most, sometimes with screaming kids nearby. Normally I don't mind beyond the extra noise, provided that I'm well rested. The times when getting proper rest onboard is important, I book business class, and I don't think I've ever seen kids in there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I've had one instance of a baby in business class. Was flying from Johannesburg to London for work, so was lucky enough that work policy allowed business class for a flight of that length. Someone had a baby with them also in business and that kid screamed non stop virtually the entire flight. Was a lot of unhappy people when we landed.

Was an overnight flight too so the expectation was that everyone would sleep the majority of the trip. Nope.