Maybe it's different in the USA, but I've travelled a lot and don't think I ever remember a long haul flight without multiple babies and young children. It's just a fact of travelling.

I recently did a 16hr flight solo and the other 3 seats in my row of 4 were parents and a toddler.

That's just part of flying and you should plan for it (noise cancelling headphones, sleeping tablets, ear plugs).

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

How do you get the sleeping tablets in the babies without the parents noticing?

[–] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

kids crying/screaming on public transport/etc rarely bothers me. impatient parents hissing at them to shut up and sit down does, however... i get it, they're tired, being a parent is hard, but still.

a kid cries on the tram? i keep reading, barely even notice

a parent goes off on their kid? rips me right out of the book and makes me take notice

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

European flights are full of kids. It's just the "child free" movement are very vocal and feel extremely entitled.

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they kinda forget what they were.

[–] hamburglar26@wilbo.tech 2 points 1 year ago

We've flown a lot in the US with our now 2 year old to visit family, and have never had anyone say anything to us on a flight in a negative way. We've had a lot of people tell us how great our son did even if he got a little fussy here and there. We've flown first class with him several times and no issues.

I'd say we're lucky that he is a little rockstar and handles it very well, but it is definitely stressful for us but just part of what we have to do sometimes to see family. I feel terrible for people that have to do longer haul flights with smaller kids though, 2-3 hours is manageable but if we had family overseas we would probably fork over the cash to fly people to us rather than put him on a plane for that long. For our sake more than his lol.