Taken from FoxNews.com:
ORLANDO, Fla. — AirTran Airways on Tuesday defended its decision to remove a Massachusetts couple from a flight after their crying 3-year-old daughter refused to take her seat before takeoff.
AirTran officials said they followed Federal Aviation Administration rules that children age 2 and above must have their own seat and be wearing a seat belt upon takeoff.
"The flight was already delayed 15 minutes and in fairness to the other 112 passengers on the plane, the crew made an operational decision to remove the family," AirTran spokeswoman Judy Graham-Weaver said.
Julie and Gerry Kulesza, who were headed home to Boston on Jan. 14 from Fort Myers, said they just needed a little more time to calm their daughter, Elly.
"We weren't given an opportunity to hold her, console her or anything," Julie Kulesza said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
The Kuleszas said they told a flight attendant they had paid for their daughter's seat, but asked whether she could sit in her mother's lap. The request was denied.
She was removed because "she was climbing under the seat and hitting the parents and wouldn't get in her seat" during boarding, Graham-Weaver said.
The Orlando-based carrier reimbursed the family $595.80, the cost of the three tickets, and the Kuleszas flew home the next day.
They also were offered three roundtrip tickets anywhere the airline flies, Graham-Weaver said.
The father said his family would never fly AirTran again.
I totally agree with the AirTran folks kicking that couple and their bastard kid off the flight. It doesn't take long to quiet an unruly child. Her little temper tantrum would've ended in the time it took belt to meet ass. And spare me your whining about how young the kid is; she's three, she knows better. Besides, I'm not saying beat her up, but kids understand spankings and not soft attempts at adult rationalization.
Furthermore, I totally disagree with the notion of "it takes a village to raise a child." It doesn't. It takes firm parenting. If I am somehow responsible for raising your spawn, I should be allowed to discipline them if you won't.
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Just one more thing wrong with the state of California, and another reason a earthquake should come and seperate it from the rest of the country (Escape from LA style...yeah).
Then these quotes are great...
1. ``If my 6-year-old doesn't put his clothes in the hamper, I'm not going to whack him. He just won't get his clothes washed,''...in turn developing the next stinky kid in school that everyone hates.
2.``Why do we allow parents to hit a little child and not someone their own size?'' ...I agree, we should be able to smack someone our own age that gets out of line.
3. ``And if you never hit a cat,'' Lieber said, ``you should never hit a kid.''...huh?
So I was flying back from Maine on Delta a couple of years ago, and while we were waiting to board, this lady next to me has two young daughters who are shoving their faces with M$Ms. So we get on the flight, and these to kids proceed to scream, whine, and throw a hissy fit the entire way to Atlanta. Neither the parents or the stewardesses did anything. Then I overhear the bitch say how she probably shouldn't have fed her kids all those M&Ms before the flight. Wrong, you probably never should have procreated.
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