Whining Parents with a Whining Kid
A couple and their three year old child were kicked off a plane when the youngster threw a fit and refused to be seated before takeoff.
"The flight was already delayed 15 minutes and in fairness to the other 112 passengers on the plane, the crew made an operational decision to remove the family," a spokesperson for the airline said.
Most people would be completely mortified if they had so abjectly failed as parents. Not these people.
The mother of the little brat complained: "We weren't giving an opportunity to hold her, console her or anything."
Really? You could not hold your own child? You were not even given the opportunity? Why not? Because your little hell-spawn was running around the cabin unattended, perhaps?
The airline does not owe you an opportunity to console her. You owe the airline and everyone on it the responsiblity to teach your child manners and discipline.
Since you have completely failed to teach your child how to act over the course of her three years, a few more minutes on the tarmac would not have turned you into Mary Poppins and your child into a little darling.
The mother continued to whine. According to the article, "she asked the attendants if [her little brat] could sit on her lap, but they said 'no.'"
Perhaps they said "no" because federal law requires everyone over the age of two years old to be seated in a seat and secured by a seatbelt.
I bet you a dime to a danish that if the airline had relented and let the little girl sit on her mother's lap and the brat hit her head during takeoff, the parents would have already filed a lawsuit.
The ariline, AirTran, was completely in the right. I applaud AirTran for the concern it showed the other 112 people on the flight.
Even so,
The Orlando-based carrier reimbursed the family $595.80, the cost of the three tickets, and offered them three roundtrip tickets anywhere the airline flies.
But that's too little, too late for the [unfit parents]. The father said they would never fly AirTran again.
All future AirTran passengers will quietly rejoice.
