 Re: Family Says Airline Left Them Stranded At Airport | |
I'm going to have to agree with the airline on this ine, at least in part. In a perfect world though, I think the airline should at least have refunded the portion of the ticket price not used for the continued flight, as it seems they did not put down purposely to offload these particular passangers.
The line that gets me though is where the mother says "they are kids." It really bugs me whenever anyone uses that as an excuse for any situation where children aren't behaving well. That is parenting 101. It is not the airlines job to make sure my child behaves on the flight or to deal with it if he doesn't. It certainly did not sound like any of the problems were related to the special needs of any of the children. More that the mother just didn't think ahead of ways to keep them entertained while in their seats. Or of ways to let them move around while it was allowable where they would not be disruptive to the other passangers.
"They are kids." is, to me, often just a cop-out for lack of parenting responsibility.
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