Crying babies are the biggest irritant to air passengers

Run_to_da_hills

On a similar note to a thread yesterday about a screaming baby ruining the tranquillity of a meal in a resturaunt, according to a poll screaming babies are the NO 1 irritant part of a plane trip.

According to the poll, "More than 24% reckoned wailing infants were the worst part of a plane trip, the survey by flight comparison site Fly.com found.
Passengers who talk loudly were the second-biggest irritant to air travellers. This was followed by listening to loud music, snoring and the annoying habit of kicking the seat in front.

Some of the 691 people surveyed listed smelly passengers as being particularly annoying, while others objected to chatty or large fellow-travellers. Passengers who whistled were not too popular either, while there were also objections to canoodling couples. A Fly.com spokeswoman said: "Sadly, not much can be done to stop crying babies - singled out by one in four as the greatest in-flight frustration - although family-only areas were suggested to contain noise and ease parents' embarrassment."

I couldn't agree more, I hate travelling beside some screaming kid that won't STFU especially if it is a long haul flight or if the flight is delayed and you are knacked. If Ryanair and other carriers can organise "Priority Boarding" why the fcuk can't they organise a designated area at the back of the aircraft for screaming kids.


http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/crying-babies-drive-passengers-plane-mad-2005787.html

gulf

Grumpy old man.

Can you not afford first class or something? If not, suck it up alongside the proletariat.

ro2

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

On a similar note to a thread yesterday about a screaming baby ruining the tranquillity of a meal in a restraint[/url]

Was the meal in St Pat's?

bonerm

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Some of the 691 people surveyed listed smelly passengers as being particularly annoying, while others objected to chatty or large fellow-travellers.

Often one-and-the-same thing.

Babies to overhead luggage compartment tbh.

Cavehill Red

I've always reckoned the first airline to introduce child-free flights will do extremely well out of it.

Run_to_da_hills

gulf wrote: »

Grumpy old man.

Can you not afford first class or something? If not, suck it up alongside the proletariat.

What makes you think first class is immuned to screaming kids.

bonerm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q3U9xZQf4w

Abi

I have a very low tolerance for noise, so crying babies, screaming / shouting / yapping kids in general, I cannot stand. And what is worse is the people that say 'ah but they're only kids'. Tell that to my fcuking headache.

rovers2001

Hate drunks on a plane shouting and mouthing off at cabin crew i have been on many a football trip and the people who dont turn off mobiles when requested too.

mfceiling

Laugh at karl pilkington talking to a parent who's child cried non stop on a flight.

"ah it's her poor ears"

"what about my poor ears"!!

Absurdum

Ryanair is the biggest irritant to air passengers imo

Duggy747

Had to get a long-ass flight home a few years ago, was leaving sunny Spain on a cramped airplane with about 3 kids SCREAMING crying!! This was before we even took off.

Somehow, I managed to fall asleep but kept waking up every now and again to the sound of even more SCREAMING and eventually the over-powering stench of vomit

Worst. Flight. Ever!!

fifth

Have to say this is probably true, while it doesn't bother me because I've got an infant son and I'm quite used to it, it really irks people on flights. I actually get irritated more by their irritation, than the actual baby crying, when they start tutting, and tutting louder if nobody passes a remark.

Deal with it!

Stark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sthl1DTpyL0

SDTimeout

Flight cabin crew not knowing what flight mode on your phone is, so insist on it being turned off regardless.

Biggins

Fcuk me... here we go again...

billybigunz

funkyflea wrote: »

Have to say this is probably true, while it doesn't bother me because I've got an infant son and I'm quite used to it, it really irks people on flights. I actually get irritated more by their irritation, than the actual baby crying, when they start tutting, and tutting louder if nobody passes a remark.

Deal with it!

How would you deal with a person sticking their fist into your babies face?

Abrasax

billybigunz wrote: »

How would you deal with a person sticking their fist into your babies face?

How do you think?

billybigunz

Abrasax wrote: »

How do you think?

I don't know, maybe we should setup a meeting to see.

Abrasax

billybigunz wrote: »

I don't know, maybe we should setup a meeting to see.

You're calling me out on Boards?
Seriously?

billybigunz

Abrasax wrote: »

You're calling me out on Boards?
Seriously?

No, I'm calling your baby out.

Mrmoe

From the sounds of it, things are not too different in the animal world.

Crying Baby Monkeys Get on Everyone's Nerves

The team calculated that bystanders are about 35 times more likely to attack both mother and infant when the baby is crying than when it's hushed.

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Abrasax

billybigunz wrote: »

No, I'm calling your baby out.

My baby says 'Wtf'?

rossie1977

i read the title as

"Cry babies are the biggest irritant to air passengers"

Mint Sauce

SDTimeout wrote: »

Flight cabin crew not knowing what flight mode on your phone is, so insist on it being turned off regardless.

in fairness you cant expect cabin crew to understands the workings of every make/model phone out there, on some mobiles its not even called flightmode

if they have doubt they have to look after safety interests, so its switched off.

billybigunz

irish-stew wrote: »

in fairness you cant expect cabin crew to understands the workings of every make/model phone out there, on some mobiles its not even called flightmode

if they have doubt they have to look after safety interests, so its switched off.

There are no safety issues. Phones do not interfere with any navigation or flight control systems on planes.

My name is URL

rossie1977 wrote: »

i read the title as

"Cry babies are the biggest irritant to air passengers"

No, they're the biggest irritant to online forums

Jay D

Have to say it would be my number 1.

Or maybe those retarded fcukfaces that seem to think bouncing off the back of your seat constantly is alright as long as them stupid **** are comfortable.

I always laugh at the braindead idiots who tut and hawww when the plane is announced to be 10 minutes or so late :rolleyes:
Like they have an interestingly livid life anyway and they really have to be somewhere so arriving to Dublin Airport at 23:00 rather than 22:50...

Flying Abruptly

I think babies or kids in airports, etc. doing funny stuff can sometimes add a bit of humour and are a distraction to what is otherwise a mind-numbing experience of sitting around waiting.

Its usually when they get restrained in seats and told to be quiet for an extended period of time is when trouble kicks off.

Flying Abruptly

Reminds me of this - attack is the best defence :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uffJqLn8Rc

Mike 1972

Getting ready to land in Amsterdam a guy in front of me (having ignored previous announcements) was asked to turn off his phone

His response: "Just let me finish this game"

pickarooney

Security checks and the stupid amount of waiting about are the worst irritant about air travel. Next is the ridiculous distance between check-in and departures. I couldn't care less about crying babies.

Biggins

pickarooney wrote: »

Security checks and the stupid amount of waiting about are the worst irritant about air travel. Next is the ridiculous distance between check-in and departures. I couldn't care less about crying babies.

Have sometimes spent more time waiting around for staff to show up than the length of the actual fcukin' flight!

John C

My experience:
On most planes there were at least five babies. The last time a baby was really irritating was 36 months ago. I recovered from it in five minutes.

Children at airports do play, that is due to boredom. Where there are moving walkways, children go the "wrong" way. A passenger griped about it. I told him that I once did it at that age and moreover it was great fun.

I've seen adults do karate, gymnastics, frisbie, soccer in checkin and departure areas. That is also in order. We all get fidgety when waiting around.

You, I, the Queen of.., the Pope and all six billion of us cried when we were small. We can resign ourselves to the occasional crying baby in an airplane.

---

What is irritating:
Fidgety passengers asking: "What time is it?" The clock is beside them. "What module are we in? It's on the sign.
People making snags out of mid air: "The plane will be 100 minutes late".
"We will not get the connecting flight. "

whatdoicare

I always thought it was really cruel to have young babies on flights, must be very painful for them with ear popping and stuff - I remember how horribly painful it was when I was young.

stovelid

It is annoying to listen to crying babies, but they can't help it. I tend to more annoyed by irritating behaviour by adults as they can actually control what they do.

ScumLord

I take comfort and satisfaction knowing that the crying child is annoying everybody around me and it doesn't bother me so much.

FruitLover

Sadly, not much can be done to stop crying babies]

I say lock them in the jacks until their mewling spawn stops its infernal screeching.

Sean Bateman

funkyflea wrote: »

Have to say this is probably true, while it doesn't bother me because I've got an infant son and I'm quite used to it, it really irks people on flights. I actually get irritated more by their irritation, than the actual baby crying, when they start tutting, and tutting louder if nobody passes a remark.

Deal with it!

Why don't you deal with it and have some consideration for other people?

Unless you absolutely have to (e.g. you're emigrating or you've to attend a funeral), you shouldn't be taking an infant on a plane.

It isn't fair on the child and it isn't fair on your fellow passengers. People with infants should holiday in Ireland...end of story.

Berty

Its not the crying children that bothers me. Its the parents who have somehow managed to tune out the noise and completely ignore the screaming.

Thoie

Babies are babies, and they can't help it. Children over 4 (over 3 if I'm having a bad day), however should know when to stfu, and if they don't know, they should be told in no uncertain terms.

Seeing as how smacking is gone out of fashion, maybe they should be made go sit on the "naughty wing" for a 1 minute per year of age.

Berty

Thoie wrote: »

Seeing as how smacking is gone out of fashion, maybe they should be made go sit on the "naughty wing" for a 1 minute per year of age.

Bring them into the toilet and show then the crazy sucking toilet flush and if they dont STFU they are going in there.

Elbow

pickarooney wrote: »

Security checks and the stupid amount of waiting about are the worst irritant about air travel. Next is the ridiculous distance between check-in and departures. I couldn't care less about crying babies.

Agreed

stovelid

FruitLover wrote: »

I say lock them in the jacks until their mewling spawn stops its infernal screeching.

Can their spawn mewl and screech at the same time?

Or was the chance of using two near-synonyms for crying just too good to pass up?

Cavehill Red

stovelid wrote: »

Can their spawn mewl and screech at the same time?

Or was the chance of using two near-synonyms for crying just too good to pass up?

mewl [mjuːl]
vb
(intr) (esp of a baby) to cry weakly; whimper

and

screech (skrch)
n.
1. A high-pitched, strident cry.
2. A sound suggestive of this cry: the screech of train brakes.
v. screeched, screech·ing, screech·es
v.tr.
To utter in or as if in a screech.
v.intr.
1. To cry out in a high-pitched, strident voice.
2. To make a sound suggestive of a screech

aren't synonymous, Mr Stovelid.

stovelid

Cavehill Red wrote: »

mewl [mjuːl]
vb
(intr) (esp of a baby) to cry weakly; whimper

and

screech (skrch)
n.
1. A high-pitched, strident cry.
2. A sound suggestive of this cry: the screech of train brakes.
v. screeched, screech·ing, screech·es
v.tr.
To utter in or as if in a screech.
v.intr.
1. To cry out in a high-pitched, strident voice.
2. To make a sound suggestive of a screech

aren't synonymous, Mr Stovelid.

A Cliftonville supporter who knows what a synonym is?

Yawns

Fck it a small smack wouldn't harm them if they are old enough to know when to stfu. 4+

Trevor451

A couple of years ago on our second year trip to Barcelona everybody from our school was shouting really loudly so the cabin crew had to stop the safety announcement

Cavehill Red

stovelid wrote: »

A Cliftonville supporter who knows what a synonym is?

And a Dub who doesn't. Who'da thunk it?

Kold

A crying baby is the most distressing noise in the world anyway so it's not really any surprise.

biko

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