Airlines Find New Tools To Keep Kids Quiet
What a smart strategy and in this way they are able to retain clients and keep everyone happy.
(CNN) -- Screaming children are the bane of many a single passenger. Now, amid all the grumbles of childless passengers and harassed parents, airlines are offering the warring factions a chance to sit further apart..
Recently, Scoot Airlines, Singapore Air's budget brand, became the latest carrier to unveil child-fee seating zones. The program, called "Scoot in Silence," Follows on the heels of AirAsia X -- the long-haul arm of the Asian budget carrier -- launching a "Quiet zone" On their flights.
The operations are similar: under-12s are banned from the zones and cordoned off from the remaining passengers via a curtain, galleys and the exit doors (The space that usual separates business class from economy).
Contrary to how it might seem, Azran Osman-Rani, AirAsia X's CEO, maintains the measure is as much for the benefit of families as it childless travelers...
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