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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a guy on my last flight who was in the emergency row with a very religious couple who had a lap baby. He claimed he didn't want to sit next to a baby, but the vibe was really that he didn't want to be near Jewish people either. It started getting loud so I told the flight attendant I love babies and would be happy to switch with the man from my aisle seat if that would help.

He agreed and I whispered to the couple that I was jewish too, and spent a three hour flight with extra leg room, a window seat and playing patty cake with a cute baby. [/quote]

Lap babies (and young children) aren't allowed to sit in the exit row, so this makes no sense.[/quote]

I agree that doesn’t make sense. I don’t think young children were allowed to sit in the exit row either.[/quote]

Babies are allowed in bulkheads - the rows that have walls in front of them instead of seats.  When I was little, airlines would give moms a cardboard box bassinet so they could put the babies down on the floor to sleep during the flights.  The bulkhead rows look just like the exit rows except no door with handle.

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/should-you-select-a-bulkhead-seat-when-traveling-with-a-baby/

If you can see "very religious" just from looking at somebody what people are sometimes thinking is "unvaccinated" which is definitely a prejudice but in our area there have been covid and measles outbreaks in such visibly "very religious" communities.  So there's a shred of statistical rationality to it.  Still rude to make other people aware of your internal fears.  We all can do better.  Confined spaces make anxious people and germophobes spiral.[/quote]

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