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Flying with Kids: Can You Fly in Separate Cabins?
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I have no problem doing flying in business/first class whilst the kids are in coach. In fact, I follow this logic even at hotels. On our last holiday, my wife and I stayed at the Four Seasons resort in Palm Beach, Florida while I put my kids across the street (literally 2 minutes walk away) at the Fairfield Inn.
@Ron, I consider it a way to install some life skills and a sense of independence and responsibility.
As children grow, it is important to loosen the apron strings and create humans that other humans want to be around. Granting small opportunities for growth like this is a step in that direction.
As for children being “second-class”, in many ways, they are. As they grow, they get more perks. Eg: Children don’t usually get the biggest bedroom in the house and often have to share with a sibling. They don’t get to sit in the front of the car until they are older. With age, comes benefits and responsibilities.
Also, not all travel is holiday time. And even so, the togetherness can be in the hotel or at the destination. It’s not necessary to be glued together at all times.
To each their own.
Thanks for the handy chart, Amy. We definitely plan to have our kids in economy/premium economy at some point with parents in a premium cabin. Our kids get unfettered access to screens on flights which is a huge novelty for them. They barely talk to us! If we’ve done our job as parents they know what’s acceptable behaviour on a flight and act accordingly. We get lots of compliments when we fly on how great our kids are 🙂 Being a few rows away from mom and dad will be give them a great sense of independence.
We flew in business a few times with my oldest as a toddler and there were lots of glares. Particularly once he had his own seat. I also found it stressful because I didn’t want to ruin
anyone’s premium cabin experience. Luckily he had a good flight each time.
Appreciate this post!
This is an absolutely terrible idea. Holidays are family time and if you set up the dynamic that your kids are second class citizens in your family they will remember that for life. We took our young children many times on trans-Atlantic flights and we would never have dreamted of relegating them to the back cabin. We sat with them in economy and the experience was wonderful. Now as adults they talk about how much family holidays meant to them, and we are a very close knit family group. For goodness sake do not do this.
That’s awesome! Enjoy!
It’s ultimately up to the individual parent to weigh their comfort and expense of having well-behaved children versus their self-awareness of potentially bringing a constant disturbance to 20-30+ individuals in a J cabin. Nobody else can weigh that decision for them, but they had best be prepared for the laser beam judgement if the objective privilege of flying J (either on merit or ‘points merit’) is fouled by unruly passengers.
Thanks for the info, I’m going to Dubai on Emirates with my 12 and 10 yr olds in economy and we’re going in business. They’re excited to be away from us and we’re excited to be alone.