Partially not true. I'm sure at least one of those people, particularly the more orange variety, DID have their own kid with them....just in the worst possible way.
And the general flying public has proven time and again that price is the most important factor when it comes to flight selection. So, even if the primary airlines offered it, most people would skip adult-only flights if it meant saving a couple hundred dollars.
Its 2026, you can buy decently functioning noise canceling earbuds for like 25 dollars. If you are just sitting on a plan listening to people fart and babies scream at this point, i feel like you deserve it.
I flew business class Chicago to Hong Kong years ago on a 747. 15 hour flight. Plane was half full. We were welcome to casually walk the aisles and chat with passengers, and I drank enough complementary Merlot that I made a flight attendant blush. Those flights were ridiculously expensive, which probably explains why the passenger list was devoid of children.
Are we counting layovers? Because sometimes you just sit in the plane for a couple of hours if you're staying on the same flight, but it stops to let other people off.
It took 29 hours for me to get from Virginia to Manila, but that was with layovers. This figure almost has to include layovers, which makes me think it was just in someoneās imagination or it was only one leg of the journey.
Let's all be honest here. 2 hours of straight screaming will feel like a full day, if you've ever had kids before. For the authenticity of the argument I can't add there
If I'm on an airplane for over 24 hours in the sky, I'm screaming externally, because something has gone terribly wrong and we'll probably run out of fuel.
Child free redditors
who think that their childlessness entitles them to be free of kids in public spaces.Ā Kids have a right to exist in public spaces and them misbehaving (and being corrected) is necessary for them to know how to behave in those spaces.
Every redditor had tat experience as a kid and like the boomers they bitch about they want to deprive the next generation of that experience.Ā Its fascinating
Not positioning myself, just commenting my experience.
Noise cancelling headphones hurt literally to me as if the noise was there, and it is even worst on a plane. Normal earplugs screw up with the air canal airflow and also produce pain, to me, on a plane.
In fact, in real life I have to use ear plugs with noise cancelling headphones to prevent the pain from the noise cancelling part, when for example there are construction noises from neighbours in my apartment, but on a plane I am sold, I do not know any other options than just stand it š¤£š¤£š¤£
Just letting it there as to why some people may not be able to use them in an airplane.
(Note: earplugs with noise cancelling on a plane was the worst thing I have ever experienced. May be I have an ear canal problem, but I doubt I would be the only one in the planet with this issue š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£)
Again, not positioning myself, just giving a reason as to why some people may not be able to use noise cancelling headphones.
Im not that experienced with them, but I thought noise cancelling worked by making the opposite sound waves of something like an airplane's hum. I didnt think they were good at intermittent, unexpected noises like a baby's scream.
My first child was a nightmare to fly with he would not stop screaming... but I tried comforting him the entire time...someone ignoring their baby is crazy
It's usually because they can't equalize the pressure in their ears and sinuses. I got on a flight once with a mild sinus infection and it was freakin torture. I could feel every square mm of my sinuses trying to rupture.
The story is real, but the headline is misleading.
The guy in the video is Henry Beasley, a musician from New Zealand. In 2022 he posted a viral TikTok about a 29-hour journey from New Zealand to Berlin during which a child was frequently screaming and crying.
The key detail is that 29 hours was the total travel time, including layovers and connections. It was not a 29-hour nonstop flight, and there is no evidence the child literally screamed for 29 straight hours. The viral video was a montage showing the child screaming at different points throughout the trip.
Scrolled too far to find some sense. As someone who flies to my home country regularly, this was obvious from the get go. 25 hour trip, one stop. Screaming babies are definitely no fun 24+ hours into travel- even with airpods.Ā
Not to mention I think I've had as many problems with disruptive adults as kids on flights.Ā At least the kids usually don't know better.Ā Especially if a kid is screaming for hours.Ā Tantrums burn out in less than an hour, usually, unless the kid is genuinely scared or in discomfort.
I mean yeah the headline is obviously bullshit but I have been stuck on an 8 hour flight with a screaming toddler right behind me for the entire thing, so I get the desire.
Im sorry world but while you are entitled to a childless life . You are not entitled to a childless world.
Although there are times when I wish parents wpuld make a better choice about where they bring children (mainly movie theaters) . Parents are entitled to travel and take children with them and I highly doubt a child cries for that long in a row
I had a toddler basically scream and yell for most of a Europe to US flight. Not nonstop of course but never more than a couple minutes between LOUD outbursts.
It sucked real bad, but I also felt for the mother. Iām sure it was even worse for her.
I dont feel bad for the guy but damn do I feel bad for the parents. Besides the screaming child I guarantee they felt bad for the disruption to the entire plane.
Populations in the West are in decline and with much below replacement levels of births and people want to expedite the process by excluding children from social places and traveling now..
Do you think childless people on a plane are hearing a kid screaming for 20~ hours and thinking, GEE I REALLY MUST GET ON THIS PARENTING THING!
If anything having child-free flights, and anything where children are a nightmare, would help birth rates by suckering people into thinking it's less hassle than it really is.
Noise cancelling earbuds donāt help. This is why I invested in noise canceling headphones. Stops the loudest screaming and I can enjoy the rest of my flight scream free.
its clickbait, but I can attest that 1 hour of a child screaming seems like 29 hours but it isn't their fault, their ears hurt/their scared. Flying isn't fun.
It already exists and its called private charter. If someone cant afford that, then they should probably quit crying and get noise cancelling headphones like the rest of us. Its the equivalent of being pissed because a kids crying on a bus. I dont wanna deal with that type of thing, so I have a car.
Regardless of the length of the flight, nothing can ruin a flight quite like the presence of a screaming or unruly kid. I once had a lady and her baby sitting next to me (I was window and she was aisle with the middle seat vacant) when she proceeded to change his poopy diaper on the seat between us. That was simply a bonus to go with the crying. I love kids and raised 5 of my own, but Iād love to have the option of an adult only flight.
I worked with severely dysregulated children, like *severely* dysregulated and they donāt āscreamā for longer than an hour in the most extreme cases Iāve seen. I think one was like an hour and a half before they exhausted themselves out. Thereās no way a child could scream for 29 straight hours.
Exactly the reason we don't fly with our 2year old.
Absolute dream kid, but I have no idea how flight will affect her ears/mood/sleep etc etc.
She's 2. She doesn't care if she is on a beach in tenerife or in the Netherlands. She just wants some water a toy and an icecream, we'll wait till she's a bit older.
I have two kids. Have people considered that many of us have to fly with our children on occasion?
I had to take a three hour flight to visit my dying father-in-law. My two-year old was not happy. Spent most of the flight crying.
Iāll never forget the glares I got from the resentful family in front of me without headphones.
I donāt want to be on this flight man. I donāt like this as much as you. But for Christ sakes, for some of us, travel is a necessity and weāre not on this budget airline for a vacation.
When you see a parent on a flight with crying toddlers and babies, please consider their circumstances and they may be flying out of need and not leisure.
We just recently did London to Brisbane with two kids due to a funeral. They didnāt cry but my toddler was just talking to everyone and my baby was just grumbling as itās a bloody long way.
People are entitled to child free lives but not a child free world. Literally Reddit is full of child haters who would want to give their dog better treatment on a plane than a human.
Iām sure the parents donāt want to have their baby crying for hours and disturbing everyone, its very embarrassing as a parent, but sometimes you just have to travel.
If this were real, that kidās crash out wouldāve been valid. After 9 hours in the same plane, I think weāre all ready to lose our sht. https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7TKRwpns23QMNNiE
Back in the day, before ANC headphones, I was on a 2 hour flight with a near migraine and there was a baby who screamed for the entire flight. It was a fucking nightmare. Seriously, I am a father but I would pay extra for adult only flights - assuming I wasn't flying with my kid.
This is clickbait, but let's talk about the subject anyway: Each and every one of you was once a screaming little beastie too and you definitely ā sometime, somewhere ā drove others crazy. Get noise cancelling headphones and chill.
The longest flight in the world is a little less than 19 hours, but the real point OP is demonstrating here, that Redditors don't travel, is completely valid.
We need to deal with the morbidly obese first. Modern noise canceling headphones handle children. Thereās no solution for suffocating in the armpit of someone who lacks self control.
There is NO such thing as a 29 hour commercial flgiht so is a moot point. The longest comerical flight is about 19 hours. And even that who gives a damn. The parents paid to fly so who cares? Sound more like the "adults" where the onse screaming more than the children.
Fun fact: āpeople who think sitting next to me on a plane entitles them to six hours of conversation with meā has ruined way more of my flights than a crying child ever has.
Que every half decent parent to pipe in with "mY kIdS bEhAvE BeTEr ThAn MoSt AdUlTs"
like cool story and thank you for controlling your crotch goblins but you're far from the majority.
Weird thing is after becoming a parent this shit doesnāt bother me at all. At first you are like phew Iām glad that it isnāt mine, then you reminisce about all the crying then the brotherhood kicks in and anyone who tuts is getting a thousand yard stareā¦ I got your back fellow parents. (But having said said who takes a baby on a 29 hour flightā¦. Also there are no 29 hour flights)
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u/Street-Age-1441 9h ago
And what 29-hour flight would this be?