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My daughter and I on her first plane ride at six months old.
I was reading an article in the Huffington Post called 5 Tips To Avoid Flying With Kids. As a mom of two my hackles were raised and I was all set to hate the author, Corinne McDermott. Really? I was thinking. Parents are like lepers now? You’re offering advice to people on how to avoid us?
Sheesh.
So Corinne lists her little tips, the usual stuff: “Avoid family vacation destinations” and “Don’t book the bulkhead” or you’ll get stuck sitting next to some whiner of a kid, that kind of thing.
There I was hating Corinne and everyone who has ever given me The Stink Eye while flying with my kids when I got to the very end of her article. And then I just fell in so much love with Corinne. Here’s the last paragraph of the article: Continue reading »
Two days ago, Mitchell Roslin boarded a Ft. Lauderdale-bound Spirit Airlines flight at La Guardia airport in New York with his two preteen kids and seven-months-pregnant spouse. Engine trouble precluded a take-off for over two hours and hampered cabin ventilation, turning the jet into a suffocating hot box. Passengers were not allowed to leave the plane, and when Roslin requested water for his parched wife, he was refused.
Lucky for me, I live within driving distance of my family and most close friends, because the idea of flying with my kids – or worse yet, putting them on a plane by themselves – gives me the nervous sweats.
I know that’s the reality for plenty of families, though, and there are kids who are far, far more seasoned travelers than I’ll ever be. But even the most travel-savvy kid and cautious parent is no match for an incompetent airline.
Case in point: this story on Consumerist. Jonathan put his ten-year-old daughter on a plane in Boston to visit her grandparents in Cleveland. He paid the “unaccompanied minors” fee, which is supposed to guarantee that airline staff would look out for the girl until she was delivered safely into the hands of her waiting grandparents.
That didn’t happen. Continue reading »
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