Malaysia Airlines bans infants from first class cabin

Fr 2 years i travelled woth my son F Class on the british airways and it was a bad experience , my son was 5 years old and he was playing with his ipad , it was a long flight fr waahington dc fo london ... then another 5 hours flight to egypt . The lady who was sitting behind me was about 70 year old rude ... very british ...she just saw my son sitting playing and she went crazy start to yell at me and told me that i was an unfit mother...and i should even turn off my netbook ( actually was reAading) i was shocked bec first of all the sound of the plane engines was louder fr the i pad and secondly fhe flight attendant yelled at me while i was arguing with the lady and told me shuuuu keep ir voice down .... my son got scared and tried tp jump fr fhe partition to go to his father and i was told by fhe Flight a .. look what ur child is doing is this a normal child ??? really i cried hard from their rudness and within an hour my son was sleeping the whole 7 hrs of the flight...all i wanna say we r not on a hotel it's a plane ... if i seek having a confortable flight .. we mothers have the right too ... if u don't like it pay extra and renta private jet !!!!of course a well trained crew can help as i didn't find any problem on emirates or etihad or qatar airways ... because they learn what is hospitality ....and how to make the passengers happy and entertain children ...remember u urself were a child before ..... and baning infants fr F it's like treating them as second best .....if u r bothered put something in ur ears and accept thwy so have a right to be aboard ...and by the way infants are not free on first ... u have to pay 10% + taxes so my coming child wil sit on my lap and still will travel on F.

Only if it were true and this was the CEO's shorthand. Alas, the education system being what it is in Malaysia, this is likely the CEO's attempt at written English. I'd like to know which MAS flights continue to have F class - oh wait that would be the flights that the Ambassador to the US takes which must have F, even though MAS is losing money faster than John Corzine.

Anybody thought that for $6k

I'm sorry, CDiddy and others...but some of us DO have great kids who make no noise. Some of us parents spend a great deal of time with children on planes and to relegate us to the little, no room, cheap seats just because we have children is absurd. I remember one time sitting in first class with my infant and being treated like such trash by the other passengers (you would probably be one of those!) just to have THEM be louder and more disturbing. They argued back and forth with each other, meanwhile, my baby slept and ate and was quiet. By the end of the flight 3 people apologized for the initial remarks. It does happen that there ARE good kids out there. My kids are by far better trained than most adults as far as traveling is concerned. Without argument, my kids pack their own bags, get through security without any mishaps because they know the drill now and behave on flights. They know if they do NOT, they don't get to go places. We take long flights (and by long I mean 8+ hours) at least 4 times a year and several shorter flights. If my kids couldn't handle it we wouldn't go. Currently, they are aged 9, 8, 5 and there is one due this month. We will be taking the little one of his first trip in August. Just a short trip, in economy to test out the waters and to get him used to traveling. Start them out young and they will learn to be far more courteous and professional about traveling than you or any of the other naysayers... With that being said...there ARE a lot of people and cultures who simply don't believe that children should be disciplined or told what to do. Those people are the ones that make it difficult for the rest of us. I've had to take baby's away from people on flights before because they simply couldn't handle them. Most mistakes are made before even getting on the plane. They don't choose their flight time wisely, they choose horrible seats with no room and they don't come prepared for the flight...or worse, they drink themselves into oblivion and forget that they HAVE a child! That was the case with the little one I had to rescue once. Truly sad. So yes, there are children/parents that shouldn't be on flights...but there ARE some of us that should. There are always idiots...even adult idiots. In fact, I don't see many terrorists who aren't adults...do you? Which is worse? An adult terrorist? or a crying child? Maybe we should ban all adults from first class too. Heaven forbid that part of the plane blow up first.

I love kids, BUT they do not belong in 1st Class!