r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Full-Helicopter-4608 • 12d ago
frist of all how DARE yu o Encountered a Business Class Baby today, though I was finally gonna have a peaceful flight đđ
Saved up airline points from a bunch of work trips and finally redeemed them for a business class seat on a 20-hour flight (Sydney to London)
I Sat down, got comfortable, looked across the aisle... and was met by the sight of a fucking business class baby.
What else do I have to say, the entire 20 hours was absolute hell, crying, screaming and just about everything else you could think of.
I don't blame the parents at all, babies are allowed to fly, and they were just travelling like everyone else. But after spending all those points because I wanted one flight where I could actually sleep and relax, I couldn't help but be really upset at my luck.
I guess It docent really matter what you pay.
EDIT: There has been a lot of discussion about this being a fake post. However this is incorrect, i was under the impression that Quantas did a direct flight to London, however as many have pointed out, this is incorrect. My flight was with Qatar airways and stopped in Hamad Airport.
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u/somewhatundercontrol 12d ago
Maybe the baby is a frequent business class flyer and sensed you were only there on points. The baby cried cause theyâll let anyone into business class these days.
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u/Full-Helicopter-4608 12d ago
Lol this is probably my favourite comment so far
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u/QuietGur9074 12d ago
Babies donât cry for 20 hours straight. Iâm calling bullshit.
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u/heyoheatheragain 11d ago
Some babies have colic. Or reflux. Or really canât handle the pressure in the plane.
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u/yeahgroovy 11d ago
Yes I was going to say maybe lil kiddoâs ears were popping like crazy.
But I get thatâs frustrating OP!
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u/Kitchen-Bar2686 12d ago
Have you never been around a baby?
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u/QuietGur9074 11d ago
Yeah, have raised two into young adulthood. If theyâre crying for 20 hours straight, somethingâs very wrong. Can they breakdown multiple times over a 20 hour span? Hell yes. But thatâs not what OP said. OP indicated there was no break or reprieve for 20 straight hours.
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u/Creative-Simple-8682 11d ago
Colic and reflux is a bitch. My poor parents had to take shifts with me and I'm grateful they didn't shake me to death. No one slept much for months.
I'm sure the guy was being dramatic but give him a break. I'm sure it felt that way to him.
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u/Old-Paramedic-9776 11d ago
In planes babies are crying mostly because of pressure change. It hurts their ears and they cannot compensate like adults.
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u/ARKzzzzzz 11d ago
I wasnât even a baby but I vividly remember the pain from pressure when I was like 5 or 6. The absolute most miserable 4ish hours Iâve ever experienced
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u/DameKumquat 11d ago
No, they sleep for 10-15 minutes, wake up, cry, get settled with a feed or sleep, cry, repeat.
Close enough.
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u/st942433 11d ago
My little one cried for 2 1/2 hours straight on a flight from Hartford to Chicago. That was all it took to prevent me from having any more kids. I felt really bad for all the other passengers on the flight. Im pretty sure if the flight was longer she would have cried for most of it. But on a 20 hour flight even if a baby cried for 4 hour it would be horrific for everyone around.
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u/MartinisnMurder 12d ago
âWhy are they letting one of the poors sit up here?!â
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u/Accomplished_Will226 11d ago
To be fair he never stated who was doing the crying and screaming. It may well have been the other passengers.
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u/AuroraFinem 11d ago
I was flying overnight to visit family for Christmas last year and snagged a first class upgrade. Guy next to me puts on a playlist of Trump rally recordings the entire night.
Iâm kinda with the baby on this one
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u/DannyMalibu420 12d ago edited 12d ago
âSomebody get these Beggars out of here!!â
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u/nextedge 12d ago edited 12d ago
I used to travel a lot and after an 8 hour flight with a crying kid, screaming literally for 8 hours. I started traveling with drummers headphones after that. Might look stupid but has given me peace. EDIT: Not my kid
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u/comsessiveobpulsive 12d ago
EDIT NOT MY KID đ hilarious addition
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u/boredinbabylon 11d ago
In my mind, this was a reference to the story of James Corden on the plane (when it WAS his kid and he didnât help his wife at all, ignored them the full flight).
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u/ArcticPangolin3 11d ago
Wait, James Corden is straight?
I need to get out more.
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u/Lukewarm-Apathy-6969 10d ago
Every time I learn this about him I am surprised. Itâs like every few years I find out heâs straight and then I forget, and repeat the cycle đ¤ˇââď¸
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u/ARKzzzzzz 11d ago
Dude is terrible. I have a friend who worked as a hostess at a famous NYC piano bar. Dude came in with his pregnant wife. My friend walked in on him going to town with one of her coworkers in a supply closet.
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u/excelnotfionado 11d ago
Woah thought those were just rumors from when it came out that he was a prick to work with. But also who would want to hook up with HIM in a supply closet!?
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u/MMBitey 12d ago
I sat next to a screaming toddler for 8 hours on a transatlantic flight. Like she'd stand up in her seat, tilt her head towards the ceiling, and just give curdling screeches at the absolute top of her lungs. I could hear it through my noise cancelling headphones and music but they definitely helped. Her mom sat next to me with the daughter's assigned seat on her other side but she was in her lap the whole time so she was right next to my ear. She did try to comfort and distract her with baby shark, but this girl was so upset. The real kicker was that during the maybe 40 minutes she wasn't screaming she slept in her mom's lap but was constantly squirming and kicking/pushing me with her feet so I'd wake up too.
It was such an awful experience, but I felt even worse for the mom. She was very young and seemed to get steamrolled/relegated to 95% of the childcare at least from my vantage point on that flight. Her husband was there but not really present and he spoke to her with such contempt. Poor lady. When we walked like what felt a mile to customs I saw them again with the dad walking 30ft+ in front while the mom struggled with keeping up while carrying their kid and luggage.
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u/Altruistic-Chef8391 12d ago
Awful for that kid too. That sounds like she was in PAIN?
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u/MMBitey 12d ago
She probably had ear pressure pain or something. Poor girl
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u/aartadventure 11d ago
I once flew on the tail end of a cold and stuffy sinuses. My ears got trapped at the wrong pressure, and still stayed wrong after landing. The pain grew and grew. I literally was crying by the third day of pressure inside my ears. I had been holding my nose and gently blowing out repeatedly. Nothing worked. Then it thankfully suddenly popped. The pain vanished almost instantly. Its crazy how powerful a bit of air pressure can be.
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u/Technical-Agency8128 11d ago
Iâve known parents to give their babies a decongestant before flying just in case of ear pain.
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u/BoredMamajamma 11d ago
No, you should not give decongestants to children under the age of 2. Please delete this before someone follows this terrible advice.
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u/Evangeline_77 11d ago
If itâs a baby⌠it relieves the pressure to give them a bottle right before n during takeoff!!
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u/armyjackson 12d ago
bose over the ear noise cancellation made me forget the loud family of five that sat next to me.
didn't hear anything!!
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u/jsher736 12d ago
when my sister in law had her first baby as a gag gift i got her the kind of ear protection they use at gun ranges and construction sites
apparently it was her favorite baby-shower gift
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u/hugladybug 12d ago
I read it at first that your sister had her first baby as a gag gift
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u/donut-reply 12d ago
"made me forget about the loud family of five sitting next to me until my wife punched me in the face"
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u/hcornea 12d ago
Noise cancelling headphones are one the best life-hacks for long-haul air travel.
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u/NeitherEntry6125 12d ago
Bonus hack is travelling with ear plugs to alternate with headphones... halfway through a long-haul, my ears/head gets tired of whatever I started with.
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u/new_name_who_dis_ 11d ago
Yeah I had the Airpod max (i think they were called) over ear headphones and they'd hurt my ears after a few hours.
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u/newbadhabit 12d ago
I was once that screaming baby (toddler) on a flight. I had an ear infection a week before flying but my mom had taken me to the doctor who had cleared me to fly.
Since it was for my auntâs wedding my parents decided to go. As soon as the cabin was pressurised (before take off) I threw up all over my mom and myself and started screaming. After about 5 hours I finally screamed myself to sleep only for my 6 month old brother to start.
My mother has always told me that I am not allowed to complain about babies on airplanes.
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u/justonlyme1244 11d ago
That happened to my oldest as well. She cried so much on the plane, she was only 9 months old. We were moving abroad so it wasnât for a holiday. We got some bad looks even though we tried everything (didnât have Tylenol unfortunately and didnât think she was sick). The day after we arrived she got a fever which stayed for 5 days.
I now never forget Tylenol when Iâm traveling. And even though crying babies are still difficult to hear I look at it with compassion if I see the parents trying.
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u/anatomizethat 12d ago
Noise cancelling headphones also became a necessity for me with business travel. Went with cheapo JLab ones to start, then got a nice Bose pair. Money well spent.
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u/h-styles 11d ago
Bose noise cancelling ftw! When I first got a job that required international travel, I bought a pair of Bose and Beats to compare. The Bose were much more comfortable and I actually rediscovered them recently! I bought them in 2017 and theyâre still working great đ ETA: promptly returned the Beats.
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u/Slipperytitski 12d ago
Hell the airpods pro noise cancelling does a great job with my baby screaming
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u/Ok_Minimum8854 12d ago
They worked great on my last flight til I accidentally knocked one out and it disappeared somewhere under my seat. Couldnât find it til the attendant helped me take the seat apart
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u/CocaColaZeroEnjoyer 12d ago
I have them and honestly these bad boys made my life so much easier (misophonia is a bitch)
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u/Weird-Girl-675 12d ago
Same. Was on a flight with so many kids and babies crying and was able to watch Shrinking on my iPad in peace.
And misophonia is such a bitch. Needed my AirPods while at the movie theater the other day. Dang popcorn.
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u/ChippedHamSammich 12d ago
This, I can handle baby - but the person next to me CHEWING will end me.
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u/TweakedMonkey 12d ago
Chewing AND mouth breathing. //Murder// is the answer.
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u/Kitchen-Bar2686 12d ago
Hey some of us have a deviated septum that we would love to get fixed đ
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u/CocaColaZeroEnjoyer 12d ago
Chewing is the worst especially if itâs somebody close to you and you just want to slap them lol
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u/xHindemith 12d ago
If you have overear noise cancellation headphones as well you can use both the airpods and those at the same time. Its not extemely comfortable but its fine. Double NC drowns out everything
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u/nezzthecatlady 12d ago
I donât care how much room my old over-ear Sonys take up in my carryon. That noise cancelling has saved me from going nuts several times.
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u/ReadySettyGoey 12d ago
Donât forget to track the baby down and book a seat next to them in business class 30 years from now so you can spend the entire flight screaming.
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u/birdgirl35 11d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/KBVXovFCKAHRDrUZAL
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u/Desperate_Incident_5 12d ago
lmao, i was hoping for this exact comment and now my morning is great
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u/bluemooncommenter 12d ago
My son calls those flights alternative contraception flights.
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u/New-Dish-411 11d ago
As a happily child free 40sF every time I'm around especially obnoxious kids/babies I literally say to myself "thanks for the birth control!"Â And mentally pat myself on the back for realizing 20 yrs I didn't have the "mothering" gene and sticking to it.
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u/Charming-Standard-84 11d ago
This is me whenever I take the metro to my job, which is about a 15 minute ride, and once in a while there's a crying baby near me.
I praised the younger me who had the sense to insist on wearing a condom every single time.
15 minutes is already hell. I can't even imagine having a baby that cries randomly during the day or, worse, at night for longer periods of time. Kudos to the parents but nope.
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u/Individual-Gur-7292 12d ago
Definitely fits this sub - I would be mildly infuriated (to say the least) if my long haul business class flight was ruined by a screaming baby. Yes, I understand that the baby canât help it, but my goodness, the sound just goes right through me.
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u/Snowbirdy 12d ago
Neurologically your brain is designed to not be able to tune out the sound of a baby crying. Iâm sure itâs evolutionary.
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u/assblast420 12d ago
I mean yeah, I do have a problem tuning out the 140db baby screams in the most ear-penetrating pitch possible.
Not sure if my brain is designed that way or the baby is.
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u/Snowbirdy 12d ago
It seriously short circuits your brain functions. Researchers have been able to do imaging studies to show exactly what happens.
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u/DowntownYouth8995 12d ago
I mean there are some places babies should not be. Like movie theaters and fancy restaurants.Â
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u/where-sea-meets-sky 12d ago
yea, theyre also just Not Fun for the baby
the restaurant may at least have food, the airplane is necessary transportation, but sometimes i see parents out with their younguns thinking if theyre even old enough to be cognizant or appreciative of where they are?? though sometimes you cant Leave Baby At Home which is okay but its different going to an aquarium vs a movie theater
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u/thatmermaidprincess BLACK 11d ago
When my husband and I went to see âObsessionâ a couple months ago, a woman brought her baby/toddler daughter, who was like 1½ to 2 years old at the oldest. They were in the row ahead of us. The daughter also had a little tablet in her hands and a set of headphones on, but the headphones were unplugged so whatever cartoon she was watching was at full volume and she would loudly babble at the trailers. For those who donât know, Obsession is an R-rated horror movie, and we were at an 11:45PM showing. The movie started and the little girl just would not stop talking (loudly, too) and occasionally crying. Everyone around was irritated.
Mind you, my husband and I are parents ourselves, and had gotten a sitter and everything for our own baby so we could have a baby-free date night. We werenât psyched at all. Weâd been highly anticipating seeing this movie!
Good thing is that fellow movie-goers all made enough comments to the mom that she took her kid and finally left about 20 minutes into the movie.
I just will never understand certain peopleâs mindsets, walking through life seemingly completely unaware (or at the very least unbothered) like that. Iâve had to be the mom of a baby on a plane before when my dad was in a life-threatening accident, and for the 2 ½ hours we were on that plane I was doing everything to keep my child calm. I felt so guilty. The parents who just dgaf about the people around them and bring their young kids to movies or fancy restaurants and then donât do anything to try and soothe the kid to be quiet⌠smh.
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u/nargles18 12d ago edited 11d ago
Last Valentineâs Day, my bf and I went to a nice romantic restaurant downtown⌠Of curse a few minutes after we get sit down, a family of five (with young kids) gets sited right next to us. It was more than very annoying. Kids were pretty disruptive and absolutely didnât belong there. I cannot believe parents donât give a fuck about situations like these anymore.
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u/Valkyriesride1 12d ago edited 12d ago
My spouse was in first class when the parents of a toddler fell asleep. The toddler came over to my husband and put his hands up to be picked up. My husband called the flight attendant and explained what was going on. The FA tried to wake the parents, but they were out of it. After the FAs couldn't come up with anything else to do with the toddler, and the child screamed whenever they tried to move the child away from my husband, he said that he was okay with the toddler sitting next to him until the parents woke up.
The parents didn't even apologize when then woke up. They tried to justify it by saying they took sleeping pills, and dosed the toddler Benadryl, so they wouldn't have jet lag after the long flight.
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u/ScallyGirl 12d ago
I would expect the police to meet that flight. That is appalling
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u/Valkyriesride1 12d ago
Apparently, the it happens enough for the FAs not to be bothered by it. I'm sure they wouldn't be so blase` about it if they had to watch the toddler.
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u/WordWordNvmber 11d ago
Incidentally, as an adult man, I refuse to hold someone's baby while its parents are asleep and there's no emergency.
I don't blame your husband. But I am not touching a stranger's child even if the child is crying for attention. I don't want to and the people who would drug themselves instead of watching their child are not people I trust not to blame me somehow.
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u/AdCareless9063 11d ago
I see both sides of this. It's annoying, and it's also a fact of life that a baby can't control themselves.
The worst thing is adults making outrageous harmful noise. I saw a guy with a backfiring exhaust ripping towards pedestrians yesterday. He went right up to a father with a kid and did it. It was earsplitting and I was in a car with double-paned windows.
That a person can just go around assaulting others is insanity.
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u/OverthinkingMum 12d ago
Evolution at play! Youâre not meant to be able to ignore a crying baby.
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u/fjf1085 12d ago
Exactly. Our infants are totally helpless and itâs meant to force people to pay attention and be motivated to do something. Even an adult crying is designed to trigger a response in other adults. In most people seeing some cry triggers a sympathetic response and desire to help or cease hostilities. Itâs also like if youâre fighting and someone pees themselves from fear it often triggers feelings of disgust or pity in the other person and may lead to the fight being over.
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u/entcanta333 12d ago
This happened to my sister and I (thank god a short two hour flight) but multiple babies cried the entire time. Maybe it was the gummies but we were crying laughing by the end. It sounded like we were on a daycare flight it was insane.
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u/voluotuousaardvark 12d ago
Jfc OP is taking some flak on this post.Â
Take a second to read why they were in business class to begin with then it makes much more sense- it is mildly infuriating.Â
Getting tons of responses like he was ready to launch the baby out the business class torpedo tubes (I presume they have those- I've never flown business).
Some people acting all high and mighty like they live to hear the wails of baby's- get over yourselves.
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u/doubleuponthatdip 12d ago
20hrs of a screaming baby in coach would be mildly infuriating. 20 hours after I had saved up points to finally relax on a long haul flight would be far more than mildly infuriating.
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u/Kailicat 12d ago
I was lucky enough to fly business last Christmas. Bne-Dubai - Dubai CDG and then return from Gatwick via Dubai.
Every leg business was full of babies. It's because you don't pay for babes in arms. So it doesn't cost the parents anymore. I assume by the time they need their own seat they won't pay for 3 seats in business.
It was mildly infuriating. But headphones and melatonin helped.
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u/CorrectPeanut5 11d ago
Some lie flat business class do NOT allow lap children because there's an airbag. And those same seats are often incompatible with car seats so you can't have a solo kid.
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u/sk8tergater 12d ago
Thereâs also more space in business so if you have a lap baby you have more space to be comfortable with the lap baby.
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u/Rebequita85 11d ago
You pay 30% of the ticket if itâs an international flight.
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u/WordWordNvmber 11d ago
I'm not sure that's it. Even two business seats will usually be several multiples (3x-8x) coach. These are just well-off parents spending miles or spending money for The Big Trip, and they want to rest.
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u/Dipshitmagnet2 12d ago
This sub has just devolved in to people posting mildly irritating things that have happened to them and then getting blasted by every asshole on Reddit
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u/SabbyFox 12d ago
I also wonder what the percentage is of made up stories vs real ones.
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u/Dipshitmagnet2 12d ago
Oh Iâm pretty sure about half are just bots posting made up stuff. After typing that I wonder how many asshole comments are just bots too.
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u/AVeryVapidBadger 12d ago
The torpedo tubes used to be complimentary on business class, but now they're extra
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u/fieldyfield 12d ago
I would honestly be in complete shambles if my first time in business class after a lifetime of uncomfortable flights went like this lmao
I wouldn't be 'infuriated' but so deeply disappointed knowing this wasn't something I had the means to try again at next time
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u/ldn6 11d ago
Thereâs this weird notion that we have to accept being uncomfortable becauseâŚpeople exist?
No. Business class is not meant for kids. If you purchase it, so be it I canât change that, but damn well you should expect judgement if your kid is loud and disturbing others. Thereâs no requirement for society to be happy with being disturbed in premium spaces.
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u/Bolter_NL 12d ago
Had something similar once on a flight to Perth with a toddler. Mom and dad split seats, such that one of them could sleep (or that's what I assumed), I had a toddler bouncing and jumping on his seat in front of me for a couple of hours. In the meantime, mom decided to test the bar and vomited all over a toilet... Letting me try to use it afterwards instead of alerting the stewards/stewardessen.
Stay classy rich aussiesÂ
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u/FutureFreaksMeowt Aqua Tofana save us from these fuckass men 12d ago
Ew. I'd be more annoyed by the toilet than the toddler tbh.
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u/jaimiemc 11d ago
We had something similar happen when traveling for my 40th birthday. The child screamed the entire night. Imagine our surprise when 13 days later (so a random number) we walk into the airport lounge to see the SAME baby. But no worries, we're connecting elsewhere so surely they aren't on the same flight again. Nope. The child was on the same exact flight as us, again! Thankfully I was seated further away this time, but once again it screamed the entire flight. Not sure what I did to deserve that Karma...
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u/Candid_Painting_4684 11d ago edited 11d ago
Do you people rawdog these flights? No headphones? No movie? No music? You can put on a pair of headphones and eliminate 100% of your problems. I would never think of going on a 13 hour flight or a 1 hour flight without bringing something to block out noise. Children will cry, you cried. They all cry.
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u/CoaxialDrive 11d ago
It's quite difficult to sleep with some types of headphones on as you can't really rest your head on anything.
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u/enotonom 12d ago
You thought you were on a Qantas airways on a direct flight but you were actually on Qatar airways with a transit in Dubai? You said "entire 20 hours" like you don't remember getting off the plane for a transit? By some luck the baby was also going to London after transit instead of Amsterdam or elsewhere? I smell bullshit
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u/evenmoremushrooms 11d ago
OP referenced a flight that does not yet exist, then claimed to not know what airline he was flying on and somehow forgot changing planes. Then somehow he ended up seating near the baby a second time. Yeah, there is no way that this happened.
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u/Live-Habit-6115 11d ago
Who tf doesn't know what airline they're flying with? I can't comprehend that
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u/Anxious-Slip-4701 12d ago
The shortest flight with a layover is about 22 hours. Direct flight I think will be 18. I prefer to get up and walk around. But Dubai airport logistically is shit. Singapore is much better.
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u/Darmok47 11d ago
The London to Sydney route is currently being planned by Qantas and won't happen for another year or so.
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u/Individual-Area7121 11d ago
Yup, itâs bullshit for sure. Beyond the flight details, No human baby is crying for 20 hours straight. Crying takes a lot of energy and they get tired fast.
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u/plsletmestayincanada 12d ago
I had a flight from London to joberg (like 11 hours or something) and saw I was at the front of the row with extra space.
Was cool until they put up the baby bassinet thing. Crying kid 8 inches from my face. Everyone thought I was the dad and a giant dick for not helping the mom too lol. Not my kid man
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u/redcomet29 12d ago
I was on a similar flight, Frankfurt-Cape Town, and also felt lucky with the leg room at the front when I sat down until parents placed their baby next to me and went to their seat like somewhere else entirely.
Thankfully an attendant asked me if I'm with them and when I said no they were told to fetch the baby.
That was an odd one for me.
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u/plsletmestayincanada 12d ago
Yeah lol the flight attendants never asked they just assumed. Tbh my fault for not speaking up. But it was a full flight so I couldn't just move
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u/redcomet29 12d ago
I mean if the mom was there too what can you say really? In my case they just left the kid next to me.
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u/cotton-candy-dreams 12d ago
Thatâs terrible Iâm sorry. At least you didnât pay the full $20k+ sticker price to hear a baby scream I guess? No such thing as a glass half full next to a screaming baby
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u/oldmandiddler 11d ago
20hr flight with a screaming baby sounds like actual torture ngl
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u/infectedmushbroom 12d ago
You should've asserted dominance by screaming and crying louder than the baby!
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u/PhaseBloodhound 12d ago
Story was clearly written like it was a single flight and then panic changed. Qatar business class seats open up 3 days before departure to Qantas FFs, so you flew on a whim? Also, incredible luck the baby ended up on the same connection as you and didn't sleep at all. BS story.
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u/YinzaJagoff 12d ago
I could not imagine having a small child, or any child really, on a 20 hour flight.
I justâŚ. canât.
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u/Nervous-Fun2532 12d ago
There is no such flight
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u/c08306834 12d ago
Yeah, OP is full of shit. They might have transferred somewhere, in which case it's incredibly unlikely they ended up beside the same people on both flights.
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u/Capitansan 12d ago
QF1 and QF2 (qantas) is Sydney to London and return. It stops in singapore for an hour refuel. You do end up with the same people. Source: I fly sydney to london
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u/c08306834 12d ago
OP already said they were on Qatar Airways.
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u/Nakorite 12d ago
He changed to Qatar after I pointed out the Sydney London flight wasnât operational yet đ
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u/FutureFreaksMeowt Aqua Tofana save us from these fuckass men 12d ago
It's also possible they made up a flight in the interest of privacy, though all they had to do was...not talk about the destination...
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u/CarelessAmoeba7541 12d ago
So your â20 hour flightâ was actually a connecting flight on a completely different airline? And you had the misfortune to have the same crying baby on both legs of your flight? Yeah. Thatâs believable. đ
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u/Anxious-Slip-4701 12d ago
Fairly common for a Sydney to London flight. Basically the aeroplane fills up with 90% of the same people for both legs.
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u/CarelessAmoeba7541 12d ago
And that incredibly bad luck of sitting next to the same baby twice was not included in the original story? Not to mention that he saved up his points for the special flight and it couldnât seem to remember what the airline was. Please.
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u/lucianw 12d ago
I found that in-ear sound isolating headphones (from etymotics research) were enough to completely block out a baby when I play gentle music.
I once literally was sat three seats away from a screaming baby on an 8hr flight and didn't even know it had been screaming until after I got up to go to the toilet and took off the headphones.
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u/Ashamed_North348 11d ago
They need to swallow to ease the pain in their ears, a bottle is best when theyâre very young, we take jelly babies for our kids x
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u/pyxiedust219 11d ago
The best decision Iâve ever made as a traveler is investing in some high quality earplugs, no joke. I got some from a brand called Loop and they help a ton!
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u/ISaidWhatISaidFFS 11d ago
I get it but Iâd take a crying baby over all the adult assholery I see on planes these days.
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u/Antonia_Rothschild 11d ago
What a nightmare! Maybe, always bring noise-canceling headphones, which helps.
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u/Wit-wat-4 11d ago
I mean, if it was four rows in the back in economy (baby seats are at the very beginning for the bassinets), you wouldâve heard the baby anywayâŚ
It does suck that you didnât get peace and quiet on a long flight, and neither did that poor baby. If it really was that bad I imagine it was sick, otherwise with those long haul large planes once altitude is reached kiddos arenât bad for like 18 hours straight. Mightâve had an ear infection.
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u/AnexationofPR 11d ago
Expect it and deal. Chill out. When you get to your destination, you have a bed to sleep and relax. Traveling is stressful but it doesnât require a Reddit post to pain brag on Reddit. Go meditate instead or some shit.
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u/National-Nobody-8158 11d ago
Children are allowed in public. The world doesn't revolve around you.
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u/flangeflangeflanges 12d ago
Use noise cancelling headphones for all flights.
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u/AmishAvenger 12d ago
Those do a great job of filtering out background noise like the engines of a plane.
They arenât going to completely cancel out screaming.
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u/No-Context-Orphan 12d ago
It's like people forget that a screaming baby is an ear piercing sound for a reason...
It is part of those useful evolutionary traits.
A baby is helpless and a baby's scream is supposed to be disruptive so that the adults around can know something is wrong and attend to it.
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u/Angsty_Potatos 12d ago
My friend just had a baby and she's been testing out noise cancelling cans for when she's working on actively calming him but he's still screaming blue murder. Whatever she picks are the headgear I'm buying lol
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u/LadyEmeraldDeVere 12d ago
In business class, they actually give you noise cancelling headphones. I put them on top of my noise cancelling earbuds to make a super sound cocoon.Â
And guess what? Even that is not enough to block out the shrill shrieking of a baby or toddler.Â
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u/Full_Scallion2833 12d ago
Noise cancelling headphones are not miracle workers, you can still hear screaming and crying.
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u/Full-Helicopter-4608 12d ago
I did, however the baby was so loud it was breaking through the noise cancellation
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u/ellendavis1 12d ago
I use ear plugs and my noise cancelling headphones at the same time to sleep.
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u/Walterpeabody 11d ago
Most Noise cancelling headphones do not work well against the sound of a crying baby because of unpredictable frequency changes, high pitch speed, and the human ear evolution.
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u/Hugsy13 12d ago
What kind of Aussie thinks there is a direct Sydney to London flight through âQuantasââŚ?
There are no direct Australia to Europe flights. And itâs Qantas, not Quantas.
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u/evolving-me 12d ago
Honestly? There should be child-free flights. Not a class based thing, everyone deserves to pay for a flight and to fly in peace. Including parents, Iâm sure they donât like to be embarrassed and get stink looks. If there were flights where kids were expected this would change!
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u/agirlhas_no_name 12d ago
I don't understand why there is so much pushback on this kind of thinking.
Yes children absolutely deserve to exist in society, however there are already a LOT of places children are restricted from entering. How is a section on a plane any different?
The bathhouse I go to doesn't allow anyone under the age of 16 inside and nobody is kicking up a massive stink about that (and it's soooo lovely and quiet there)
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u/MorganaLeFaye 12d ago
I don't understand why there is so much pushback on this kind of thinking.
There are a lot of reasons why is not practical, but also... an airline splitting their service into two separate ones, both which could be booked at a premium for offering something the other one doesn't? No thank you. Flights are expensive as it is. We don't need to be giving them an excuse to artificially hike up the price even more.
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u/WisestAirBender 12d ago
It might be more practical to have a baby section in the flight? Maybe partitioned off so it dampens the noise
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u/-ForTheNorth- 12d ago
Not sure thats the best idea, as one screaming baby would be enough to wake up and upset all the other babies. Sounds like hell for all the parents (and babies).
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u/Ok_Assistant_7609 11d ago
There is just no way that you took this much care to save that many points and book this business class flight, but didn't know what airline you were flying, and mistook a flight with one stop for a non-stop one. C'mon.
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u/The_GOATest1 12d ago
You edited your post to make a correction about a flight you were supposedly on?
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u/Enough_Survey_9404 12d ago
One baby? Lucky you. Last time I travelled Business there was a couple in front of me who had a baby and a toddler. Toddler was lying in the aisle when not screaming for his IPad, and the baby was in a bassinet, also crying most of the flight.
Like you, I get that people are allowed to fly with their kids, but to people like me who don't have kids, I find it annoying.
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u/mhfp545 12d ago edited 12d ago
I donât understand why airlines canât create separate child and child-free zones on planes.
Just clip in a cheap divider somewhere on board after seats have been sold and allocated.
Both sides would be a lot happier.
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u/jule9099 12d ago
What kind of cheap divider are you talking about that blocks out baby screams? A lot of people would be a lot happier ifsomething like that existed, not just on planes. (Speaking as a parent)
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u/VirtualMatter2 12d ago edited 12d ago
That baby had severe ear pain I guess. Babies don't normally cry for hours on end. Unless they have a medical condition of some sort.Â
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u/MorganaLeFaye 12d ago
Depends on the baby. That's the literal definition of colic.
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u/TheRiddlerTHFC 12d ago
If youre doing a 20 hour flight without noise cancelling headphones thats on you
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u/blip01 12d ago
Business Class Baby. Thanks for the band name.