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Plane passenger fumes after dad ignores 'out of control' kids for entire flight

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AuthorKatie Williams
Published date16 June 2022
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
After a long haul trip, she took to popular forum Mumsnet to question parenting techniques

Her whole journey included five flights, and she claimed she sat near children for each one and was not impressed by the parents' behaviour.

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Keeping anonymous, she said: "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 explained: Flight one - mum and two kids in the row in front of me. Dad across the aisle, plonks himself down on his laptop for the entire flight. Little boy (around two-three) EXTREMELY loud, continuous shrieking, disrupting his sister. They had brought nothing for him to do - no iPad/colouring/books, so no wonder he was bored. Just shrieked constantly to get mum's attention.

"Dad did absolutely nothing to help, didn't offer to take him. Neither took him for a walk down the aisle or anything - he literally was in his seat the entire flight, absolutely bored s**tless and disturbing everyone around him."

The woman continued: "Flight two - girl of about three sitting behind me, next to mum. Dad across the aisle. Was fine during the flight but kept switching between mum and dad, and taking it in turns to sit on their lap watching her iPad. When it came to landing, she still wanted to switch every few mins.

"Air hostess politely told them a few times that she needs to be seated now for landing. Parents meekly tried to make her sit still with one of them but eventually gave up, so for the actual landing she ended up in the aisle (very dangerous) with mum holding onto her T-shirt. Air hostesses were seated...

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