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Originally Posted by msgsing
Sounds like a lawsuit in the making despite the safety issues involved.
EasyJet are just a low cost carrier like Ryan Air or Spirit Airlines and JetBlue in the US.
They usually charge people a lot for going even slighlty over the weight limit and there are all kinds of hidden charges. I am just surprised they didn't charge the woman for breastfeeding.
There's always lots of heated arguments going on at the check in desks at such budget low cost airllines.
"It's just absolutely crazy that I was told that I couldn't feed him — crazy, and really embarrassing for me. I find it really disappointing that an airline I trust, and who we fly with all the time, actually broke the law in discriminating against me as a breastfeeding mother," said Edgson-Payne, from Rochester, Kent.
"The law in the U.K. says it protects breastfeeding mothers — and even easyJet's own website says mothers are welcome to breastfeed at any time during a flight," she added.
"There's just no consistency in their messages. They should not be discriminating against breastfeeding."
In the mom's defense, the airline's website could something like "mothers are welcome breastfeed the baby at any time except during takeoffs and landings".
Personally, I think infants should be secure: in a car seat, in their own seat. But airlines allow parents to handhold infants. I see it all the time when I fly. So they really aren't secure at all. One big bump, there goes baby, flying across the cabin.
Thats all Ive seen as well when I flew.
Does anyone actually put the infant in a baby seat an pay for the extra seat to put them in?
If airlines allow parents to keep the infant in their arms, its already unsafe in an emergency, breastfeeding isnt any different. The kid is still in the same position he will be during the whole flight.
Probably would've been best if Mom was told that feeding could resume after take-off. Well, maybe she was told, we dunno. It reads as though she evidently isn't aware, that suitcases, backpacks, purses, laptops, cell-phones, books and babies hurled at approximately 180 miles per hour could injure other passengers including a passenger not belted in - in this case, a baby.
I understand her need and right to breast feed but to be "mortified" because she is asked to stop briefly for take off is her issue and she just needs to get over it.
From the article, the mom said
In the mom's defense, the airline's website could something like "mothers are welcome breastfeed the baby at any time except during takeoffs and landings".
that kills the moms story, since they said "not now during the take off"
Personally, I think infants should be secure: in a car seat, in their own seat. But airlines allow parents to handhold infants. I see it all the time when I fly. So they really aren't secure at all. One big bump, there goes baby, flying across the cabin.
Can't wait to read about the woman left in tears by flying baby.
Thats all Ive seen as well when I flew.
Does anyone actually put the infant in a baby seat an pay for the extra seat to put them in?
If airlines allow parents to keep the infant in their arms, its already unsafe in an emergency, breastfeeding isnt any different. The kid is still in the same position he will be during the whole flight.
This was unnecessary.
I've flown with a family member who did this. Although you are right that it's rare. So much so that he had to show the flight attendant (who assumed the baby was supposed to be handheld) that his daughter in the car seat actually had her own ticket.
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