Corendon Airlines is testing the “Only Adult” zones on flights between Amsterdam and Curaçao starting in November.
This area will be located at the front of the Airbus A350-900 aircraft and consists of nine XL seats with additional legroom and 93 standard seats.
There will be walls and curtains separating the “Only Adult” zone from the rest of the plane, making it ideal for travelers without children and business travelers who “want to work in a quiet environment,” according to a press release.
As a parent, I actually support this idea. And it’s partly because kids are simply not always “controllable,” by any human, in a confined space after many hours.
Before I was a parent, I thought the right discipline would solve everything, but airplanes in particular are brutal environments, with very little space to move and limited options to distract them. Even screens, which are close to a silver bullet, don’t always work. Travel is exhausting and challenging for kids, and kids were never evolved well to handle being locked in a seat for hours, let alone dealing with pressure and time zone changes.
So please, until we have adults only zones, have a little patience. There are certainly bad parents, but I guarantee that most of them want their kid to be quiet even more than you do.
I’d imagine sending all the grumpy old codgers to their own zone will be a huge bonus for frazzled parents.
I was thinking… what’s the acceptable level of pain we can put children through when travelling? If kids suffer during flights, why is it OK to fly with them? Because it’s convenient?
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You know that pressure changes in an air plane are painful for children?
They’re painful for babies. You can teach a child how to pop their ears. We all learned at some point.
Aren’t babies children?
Not all children are babies. Saying “it hurts human ears” would also be correct, but disingenuous.
This type of nitpicking is what I’m looking for in a good internet discussion. Thanks.