Do you fly economy to Europe with your kids?

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Anonymous wrote:We do Premium economy/economy plus. It’s not much more than economy and Worth the extra leg room and recline to get more sleep. Meals, snacks, drinks are better and dedicated cabin of 20-26 seats so quieter.

+1. Husband's family is in Germany, so we fly every year, economy plus on Lufthansa. I think the difference between economy/economy plus there is actually bigger than economy plus/business, and the upgrade is totally worth it.

PP. I meant the difference in experience, not the price.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, though we usually pay a little extra for premium economy or at least extra legroom seats. It’s fine. Not worth more than double when I’m flying 5 people abroad.
Just don’t do what the rude parents on our flight today did - book themselves in business and their kids in coach and then have their kids coming up to them throughout the flight. We were in the first row of premium economy and they were constantly passing.

How is it rude to… walk past people?

I suspect it only annoyed you because you’re a nosy Nellie and couldn’t help taking note of the situation, what it was the kids wanted, etc.

So you do this, right? Gross to stick your kids back there with weirdo strangers.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, though we usually pay a little extra for premium economy or at least extra legroom seats. It’s fine. Not worth more than double when I’m flying 5 people abroad.
Just don’t do what the rude parents on our flight today did - book themselves in business and their kids in coach and then have their kids coming up to them throughout the flight. We were in the first row of premium economy and they were constantly passing.

How is it rude to… walk past people?

I suspect it only annoyed you because you’re a nosy Nellie and couldn’t help taking note of the situation, what it was the kids wanted, etc.

Uh no, that’s just a crappy thing to do.

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Anonymous wrote:Please share which airline for biz class to Europe for 2500 - and which destination . Thx!

I can usually get Air France business for around $2500-3000 per person. I think it’s worth it with my kids.

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Kids are small and can sleep much more easily in economy seats. I flew economy to Europe and the Middle East many times as a kid no problem.

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I made my family fly 15 hours to Korea in economy (we always fly economy). The seats on an international flight are usually a little bigger than your standard domestic seats.

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yep, kids are 6 and 4 and have been to Europe 4x always flying economy. I've never flown anything else.

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We've flown economy to Asia, LOL. So yes, definitely flying economy to Europe.

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Yes. Occasionally we get the more leg room economy seats since DH and I are on the tall side.

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Depends. We've done both, just depends on when/where/etc.

Is it worth the cost to fly business, even in lay flat seats? not really. Especially going there as the flight is shorter. Definitely not worth it to the UK since that's a very short flight.

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Anonymous wrote:This is such a DCUM question. Who wastes money getting biz class for children?

Yes. (Thought I'd also ask who wastes money getting biz class for themselves? I don't pay several hundred dollars an hour for a more comfortable seat.)

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At this age I would look for a day/morning flight so that they don’t need to sleep on the plane and also you are rested and no need to sleep for you
But that’s just my preference

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Anonymous wrote:If you can only afford economy, I personally feel you are better off just doing Epcot- that is close enough to Europe and in some ways is better

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Kids that size you should be ok. I've flown economy, business and 1st class from LA to London. The First class trip I was vomitting so had help with my 2 small kids from the stewardess assigned to our section. I think it very much helped we were in 1st class that time.

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If you are able to stomach the 2500 price tag per ticket, then do it, it sounds like you won’t be happy in economy.

However, your kids will be totally fine in economy.