etihad airways

Tormented by Tots

November 30, 2011

in Baby & Kid Stories

It was my parents, my sister and me travelling to the Middle East from Australia (a 14 hour flight). We booked with Etihad Airways.

Now my sister was only 8 months old, so we had to sit all the way at the front with ‘the rest of the babies’ so my mum could have a bassinet. There were so many babies around it was like a childcare centre or something!

So we buckled up ready to take off. As soon as the plane started going up, the baby’s voices got louder! There was a boy who lost his dummy and wouldn’t stop crying for 14 hours straight! It was sad for the mother – she started to cry because everybody kept staring at her. My mum tried to help but he but he just kept going. Everyone got used to that kid, but there was another one sitting in the front row jumping on the seats throwing food at the row behind him. He even threw his baby brother’s nappy across the plane! It was soo funny but it got really annoying.

Each baby had its own story… Thank goodness that flight is over!

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Plane Etiquette

February 24, 2010

in Passenger Stories

I was flying back from Malaysia yesterday on Etihad and had specifically requested a row of three seats as I was making a 28 hour journey and was hoping to catch some shut eye on the way back.

You never know with these requests whether they will process, but on this occasion I was lucky enough to note that I was the only passenger that they had granted this liberty to – must have been the dark ring sympathy!

Anyhow, before we took off, some guy who was sat on a 2 seat next to my row hopped across and decided to ‘join the fun.’

Obviously I couldn’t say anything to him because technically it wasn’t my seat, but I was seriously annoyed because his position meant I had to sleep up right for an 8 hour leg rather than cozy down…

Nothing outrightly wrong with what he did but SO FRUSTRATING and just needed to share.

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