Is it OK for parents to travel in Business Class while teen kids travel in Economy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We've done it, when flying with 2 other families. We had, collectively, enough points to upgrade 5 business class tickets for three adults, and the 4 kids sat in coach. My daughter, now 18, still makes snarky comments about it to this day - she was 10 at the time. I think it's totally fine.

Time to shut this down. That’s bratty behavior from a near adult.

Whatever. Thank goodness that I'm not so sensitive that this bothers me. How do you get through life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How times have changed. When we were kids, we slept on the floor in sleeping bags at hotels and relatives’ homes for vacations. Also spent several vacations in a backyard tent at a family member’s home. We were fed sandwiches for dinner while adults ate steak. There was a recognition that kids did not equal adults.

wow boomer

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My concern is if something happened- like an emergency. I would never want to be far away from my kids for that reason alone.

What type of emergency? I am serious - I what kind of emergency could happen on a plane that will require you to be in the same fare class as your teenager?

DP, but we were on a flight and the engine caught on fire. We had to make an emergency landing. It was very stressful and would have been much worse if our kids had been back in coach. I am glad we were sitting with our kids so we could talk them through the situation and they didn’t freak out.

If you order your life around risk of this magnitude, you'd never drive a car, eat grapes, take a drink, or do one of innumerable other things you do as a matter of course. Is it just that you are bad at math?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My concern is if something happened- like an emergency. I would never want to be far away from my kids for that reason alone.

What type of emergency? I am serious - I what kind of emergency could happen on a plane that will require you to be in the same fare class as your teenager?

DP, but we were on a flight and the engine caught on fire. We had to make an emergency landing. It was very stressful and would have been much worse if our kids had been back in coach. I am glad we were sitting with our kids so we could talk them through the situation and they didn’t freak out.

If you order your life around risk of this magnitude, you'd never drive a car, eat grapes, take a drink, or do one of innumerable other things you do as a matter of course. Is it just that you are bad at math?

I didn’t order my life around this. We were in business class and then the engine caught on fire, dummy.

[Anonymous]

Yeh this is real trashy , the whole family or downgrade to what you can afford

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeh this is real trashy , the whole family or downgrade to what you can afford

Trashy!

I think maybe some people here think business class is some kind of indication of status and worth. It is not. It is a more comfortable and spacious seat on public transport that comes with an associated higher cost than the smaller seat. For longer flights that I would want to sleep on, I may decide it’s worth spending more on the more comfortable seat to allow me to sleep. But my kids are able to sleep anywhere and when they’ve flown business, they don’t even bother making the seat lie flat. They don’t care where they sit or sleep so why pay more for them to have a bigger seat that they don’t care about? So in my family, if we are taking a long flight, we would discuss the seating options but the likelihood is that on a longer flight we’ll put the kids in premium economy and we’ll fly business because we are all fine with that! Nobody is “less than”, it’s just some are more bothered by being uncomfortable than others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeh this is real trashy , the whole family or downgrade to what you can afford

Trashy!

I think maybe some people here think business class is some kind of indication of status and worth. It is not. It is a more comfortable and spacious seat on public transport that comes with an associated higher cost than the smaller seat. For longer flights that I would want to sleep on, I may decide it’s worth spending more on the more comfortable seat to allow me to sleep. But my kids are able to sleep anywhere and when they’ve flown business, they don’t even bother making the seat lie flat. They don’t care where they sit or sleep so why pay more for them to have a bigger seat that they don’t care about? So in my family, if we are taking a long flight, we would discuss the seating options but the likelihood is that on a longer flight we’ll put the kids in premium economy and we’ll fly business because we are all fine with that! Nobody is “less than”, it’s just some are more bothered by being uncomfortable than others.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My concern is if something happened- like an emergency. I would never want to be far away from my kids for that reason alone.

What type of emergency? I am serious - I what kind of emergency could happen on a plane that will require you to be in the same fare class as your teenager?

DP, but we were on a flight and the engine caught on fire. We had to make an emergency landing. It was very stressful and would have been much worse if our kids had been back in coach. I am glad we were sitting with our kids so we could talk them through the situation and they didn’t freak out.

It's hard to know who will freak out most. Many parents will panic more than kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My concern is if something happened- like an emergency. I would never want to be far away from my kids for that reason alone.

So your kids are never going to get a driver's license? Driving is way more dangerous than taking a flight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a few years, both your kids will be old enough and out of the house. You’ll wish you had more time with them. Buy tickets so you’ll all sit near each other. Spend some time with your family.

They are going on vacation together for hours and hours and hours. By the end of that, it's highly likely they'll want to sit apart.

[Anonymous]

It's good for kids to see that they can't have everything their parents have waited to so long to enjoy. My clothes, haircuts and weekday lunch budget (office lunches), for example, are higher than I spend on my kids. It's not like you're not taking them on vacation at all, that would send the wrong message (that you lead separate lives) but with airplane seats I don't see the problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My concern is if something happened- like an emergency. I would never want to be far away from my kids for that reason alone.

What type of emergency? I am serious - I what kind of emergency could happen on a plane that will require you to be in the same fare class as your teenager?

DP, but we were on a flight and the engine caught on fire. We had to make an emergency landing. It was very stressful and would have been much worse if our kids had been back in coach. I am glad we were sitting with our kids so we could talk them through the situation and they didn’t freak out.

If you order your life around risk of this magnitude, you'd never drive a car, eat grapes, take a drink, or do one of innumerable other things you do as a matter of course. Is it just that you are bad at math?

I didn’t order my life around this. We were in business class and then the engine caught on fire, dummy.

OK, in addition to being bad at math, reading comprehension is an issue for you. I'll go slow, to make sure you understand this time.

You suggested that you wouldn't sit apart from your teenagers *in the future* because of the risk of the plane engine catching fire. But that is a very, very small risk, and if you, or anyone, makes decisions based on that level of risk *in any context,* you won't be doing anything.

Does that help?

[Anonymous]

Why would this be a problem? Kids should not assume they get the same privileges as adults!!

[Anonymous]

Ok sit together so they can keep asking you for the snax you packed and you can clutch hands as the plane crashes.
You won't be traveling long after sciatica develops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would this be a problem? Kids should not assume they get the same privileges as adults!!

They shouldn't assume they will get a bmw when they start driving just because Mom has one either.