AirAsia X gives kids the boot

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• Keep kids out of premium cabins
  
  

  A hearty round of applause to AirAsiaX for their decision to ban kids from their new quiet zone. Parallel curios too, to MH for banning altogether, under 12's in First Class. What a way to have your travel experience ruined when you pay thousands of $$$$ to travel in First or Business, only to have ill mannered and spoiled children running amok or screaming their lungs out. More premium carriers should take the same stand and ban under 12's from premium cabins. (footnote: the holds of modern aircraft are fully containerised, pressurised and heated. Now there's an idea for a bright, young engineering apprentice !!)

  By Leo Close, Friday, September 28, 2012
• The growth area in aviation grasps the nettle of noisy kids
  
  

  OK so I am in the later stages of my life. As a westerner I have grown to accept the "Kids come first" attitude amongst modern parents. I can understand that is the norm these days. However it comes as no surprise that Air Asia has introduced this measure. In the Far East they have a culture of respecting their elders and encouraging good behaviour from the younger generation. In contract its often evident that Western ethos often allows (in some cases) that offspring can behave in a way that discomforts fellow travellers without being told not to behave badly. I have been confined for up to 8 hours in an aluminium tube on a transatlantic flight suffering with increasing ire when a 5 yr old "princess" in the seat in front of me bounced , shouted and emanded attention from everyone around and cried when she did not get her own way and generally made herself objectionable ( perhaps an X-Factor contestant to come?). Her parents were subjected to hostile stares and angy glances from across the cabin, to which they feebly smiled and raised their shoulders in a "what can you do?" gesture. The whole cabin could have happily invited the princess to play "outside"!! Every one brings up their kids in the way they consider proper but when that method trespasses on other people's expectations of a quiet and comfortable journey I hold that that is not acceptable or responsible parenting. Air Asia should be congratulated on the move to protect their customers from the few parents unable or unwilling to educate their offspring on how to behave in public. Those parents who do, have well behaved small children. I always compliment them on the behaviour of their kids when I leave a flight . Complaining to the other type of parent does no good anyway!!!

  By John Barrington-Carver, Thursday, September 27, 2012