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Family segregated seating next for airlines?
A US poll has found that a heavy majority of passengers favoured segregated family sections on airplanes……….that is a massive 73% of those contacted by Maritz Research.
It’s a subject that has heated up this summer with such incidents as a three-year-old girl who threw a temper tantrum and refused to be belted into her seat……..She was removed, along with her parents, from an AirTran Airways Flight.
The airline reimbursed the parents but when the parents went public, AirTran received more than 8,000 e-mails, nearly all of them supportive.
More recently, there was the Benadryl incident, with when a toddler kept repeating “Bye-Bye plane,” an attendant suggested a dose of Benadryl.
The mother refused and mother and child were removed, with fellow passenger’s stories backing up the mother’s version of events.
In some cases, passengers have become irate about children with fellow passengers on a flight from Florida to New York shouting at a woman to stop a child who would not stop crying.
No wonder some kids are upset, with in some cases, babies among those stuck for more than 10 hours on stranded planes without food and water.
Report by David Wilkening
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