Getting back to the original topic, you have to consider what the Capt was being told to do by his ops people if he had contacted them for advice. Still a bit mean though, unless someone thought it was to set an example. Ultimately I would have thought it would have a more negative publicity outcome.
As to the choice issue, I do feel I’m being made to feel like an inconsiderate member of society, worthy of an ASBO for having done what is one of the most natural things in the world to do.
I do have friends/colleagues who have no children & respect their choice. We all co exist peacefully (ish) together. But I do sometimes understand how the smokers at work feel when they are banished to the smoking area in the carpark to indulge in their “filthy” habit.
Us parents don’t just go on holiday with children on A/C. I lived and worked in Germany where I met my childrens’ mother at my place of employment. My first son was born in Germany. We all now live in the UK. We have taken the children (now 5, 6 & 8) on an aircraft to visit their relatives in Germany several times. The eldest came over the first few times between the age of 8 months and 16 months with no problem.
It would be far crueller to subject them to a cramped 12 hour car journey than a 1 1/2 hour flight. We only just get into the “are we there yet ?” phase with the plane.
I never had any more trouble with them on an A/C than in the car. It may be because they have been bought up with aviation books, pictures, dvds etc around them that A/C aren’t so alien to them. The only thing they don’t like is the ear popping, or lack of it during climb/descent.
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