Comments on: Whatever happened to the Friendly Skies?

By: anne

anne — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:44:50 +0000

my children are bigger now, but that hamac in the picture looks great! Never seen one on a plane before, however…
meanwhile, on an 8 hour flight with Air India when my son was 2 I had finally gotten him to sleep lying across my and his seat. I settled myself onto the floor for a nap with my head on the seat… suddenly a woman behind his seat shrieked “he’s going to fall off!” I started to move into action. Next to my seat was a rather elderly Indian man with whom I had exchanged smiles. As I went to adjust my son’s body the man looked at me raising his two hands palms toward me to say stop. Then he held them above my son’s body palms down and moved them in configurations and my son’s body followed his gestures and settled into the seat comfortably to sleep for a few more hours. It was beautiful.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:51:46 +0000

my little girl hats airplanes I have a 5 hr flight coming up in a few months either that or 5 days driving in the car with her screaming the whole way the other option is to not take her to grad school with us and let her be raised by cougars in the wilderness. I guess we will take her with us since ya know she is pretty cool and we love her and all but I do wish we could teleport so I think that is the answer to our problem some one needs to get on that technology so we can all be spared some headaches

By: Larissa

Larissa — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:20:37 +0000

Why absolutely! Once I flew to chile, which was a 9 hour flight, and let me tell you.. there was a women with 2 young children in front of me, and one behind me. It wasn’t too uncomfortable when I took advantage of my ear phones and plugs, but oh my gosh.. I think these children were secretly having a contest of who could scream the loudest. It drove me nuts at times! The positive thing though was plays with the kids when I was bored since i had two window seats by myself, and they were in the middle, so sometimes they’d come over and look at the window. Of course I like making faces and smiling at them. So I dont necessarily mind young children that can provide some entertainment for such a boring fligt! But fussy babies i’d rather not….