8 comments

• Comment Link Wednesday, 30 May 2012 11:18 posted by Laurie

  My opinion as a Travel Agent and as a Parent and Grandparent is this is a wise decision. If I were travelling with small children I would rather stay in the lounge area and let the kids run some energy off than take them on the plane and have them get cranky waiting for the plane to leave. I do agree that they should let the seat selection be at no cost to parents of small children. I would rather they sit with their parents than beside me and I have to look after them! Just my opinions..

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• Comment Link Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:51 posted by Kelvin Chen

  I can never understand why airline passengers, first, cannot wait to board, then, cannot wait to disembark. No matter which boarding method airlines use, there is still a queue in the aero bridge as well as in the aircraft cabin. Maybe the problem lies in how many are allowed to board at a time. How about control the number (seat numbers can be random so passengers are not all from one section) allowed into the aircraft at a time while the rest relax in the terminal. Like when an aircraft is parked on the tarmac and passengers arrive by bus (remember the days? or airports?).

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• Comment Link Wednesday, 30 May 2012 10:10 posted by scarlett

  Money. Money. Money. While they're at it. Charge them usd25.00 1st kid 2nd kid usd 35.00 in addition to the fares of course.

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• Comment Link Wednesday, 30 May 2012 09:27 posted by Leah

  As a parent travelling with a child under the age of 2, this is very aggrivating. When I travelled with my son, who at the time was 6 months, I appreciated the pre-boarding, since it's hard enough getting through the narrow aisles of the aircraft on your own, let alone with a child, diaper bag, carry on baggage for both of us etc. It takes time to get to your seat, get everything you need close by and the rest in the overhead bins, while still keeping a thousand eyes on your child to make sure they aren't falling off the seat, or causing mischief. To now have to board with everyone else, is just going to annoy the other passengers as they have to wait even longer for families to settle in! Let's face it, airline passengers are angry enough as it is, this will just annoy them more!

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• Comment Link Wednesday, 30 May 2012 09:24 posted by leslie wright

  A wise decision to remove the growing frustration at the gate exeption of first class and premier class boarding shoul go by row numbe More important is the carry on baggage which is out of control no piggy backing it frustrates passangers who do just have one carry on. On a recent Delta flight i had boarded earl one bag which went into the overhead compartment just prior to take off the flight attendant held up me bag asking whoes bag it was that it could not fit and would have to be checked in I travell all the time with this bag ,fellow travellers allowed to carry on multiple bags must be controlled

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• Comment Link Wednesday, 30 May 2012 09:03 posted by Stacey

  As an adult who travels with young children I agree that this is okay. I always board last because my children get bored, fidgety and frustrated having to sit in a seat that they know they are goign to have to sit in as they would say mommy it's "FOREVER". I understand the airlines want us to board first to get out of the other passengers way, to get our strollers put in the storage container and I did do this once. It was a disaster for me, my children and the other passengers. My kids would not sit down, they were to interested in seeing everyone else come onto the airplane, they were getting in other peoples way. It was more embarrassing and frustrating for me, the other passengers and my children then if I had came on last. Now I contunie to board the aircraft as last minute as I can because my children see everyone else sitting down with their seats buckled and they don't struggle with me, they actually follow everyone elses doing and get excited for their very long ride to an exciting new place.

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• Comment Link Wednesday, 30 May 2012 08:47 posted by Roger Halfacre

  Add to this the increasing difficulty to find three seats together and you have parents trying to get their child settled in a middle seat rows away from their own. Then, trying to fight their way back against the incoming tide of people. Unless, of course, the family has the extra cash to pre-book the seats in advance.

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• Comment Link Wednesday, 30 May 2012 08:43 posted by George McGrath

  Put children in baggage with the pets Problem solved!

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