{"id":4784,"date":"2011-03-30T02:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2011-03-30T02:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T02:19:00","slug":"struth-call-for-airlines-to-can-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/03\/struth-call-for-airlines-to-can-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Call for Airlines to Can Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-K4D1prYX02U\/TZKTHsjXf4I\/AAAAAAAANoA\/cfakW_88an0\/s1600\/airplane-crying-child-749897.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-K4D1prYX02U\/TZKTHsjXf4I\/AAAAAAAANoA\/cfakW_88an0\/s320\/airplane-crying-child-749897.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589691847948074882\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a survey in England has found that a whopping majority of those who took part would like to see adults-only cabins on long-haul aircraft flights.<\/p>\n<p>Accommodation website HolidayExtras.com asked 5000 of its customers just what they wanted in air travel, and flights sans enfants came out tops: 83 per cent of respondents said they&#8217;d like to see adult-only cabins, and a third of those went even further saying they&#8217;d like to enjoy select flights on which children were totally banned.\u00a0 None. Nil. Zilch.<\/p>\n<p>And as could be expected another gripe was leg room: more than 75% of those polled said they needed more space, with the discomfort of being jammed in cramped spaces their worst nightmare whilst flying.<\/p>\n<p>HolidayExtras.com Product Innovation and Merchandising manager, Anthony Clarke-Cowell said he was surprised so many travellers expressed such a strong desire for adult-only flights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Long-haul flights always present a challenge for families, and this is reflected in the results. (We found) that there is clearly a need for more facilities to keep children happily engaged in quieter pastimes \u2013 and not only during a flight, but in preparation before their flight as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"visibility: hidden; display: inline;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that a survey in England has found that a whopping majority of those who took part would like to see adults-only cabins on long-haul aircraft flights. Accommodation website HolidayExtras.com asked 5000 of its customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}