Man Seated Next to Unaccompanied Minors Forced to Change Seats

Wow, make a woman, minding her own business, change seats to babysit two kids on a flight. I would have told the stewardess, as a female, that I resented being told to sit there. Who elected me the babysitter? I may want to read a book, nap, do paperwork for my business. But, instead I am being told to entertain some kids just because I am a woman. If the stew's want to watch the kids, seat them by the "kitchen" area and do it yourself Miss Stew. That's what you are being paid to do, not me. The man displaced and the woman asked to babysit should both be refunded the full amount of their tickets and the woman should be paid for babysitting the kids.

Honestly, I would thank the airline for not making me sit next to a couple of unacompanied ten year olds. But I would thank them even more to have changed my seat before I sat down in the first place. This should have been handled at the gate.

So next time I fly and they sit me next to a child I will demand to have my seat changed to First Class for my protection.

I wouldn't want to be a woman passenger who was appointed an unpaid babysitter for someone else's kids on a plane either.

I can understand why he felt embarrassed. Perhaps the airline needs to work out the seating arrangements properly beforehand, so there will be no need to ask anyone to move.

yup i guess there's no women perverts out there
just dirty old men

If the airline thinks this is important enough to have a policy, they should take responsibility for NOT issuing a seat assignment next to the children. This could have been resolved when the kids checked in and before he boarded. The airline owes him a big apology and they need to take responsibility - not just have a "policy"

Well - Talk about profiling.....The more I read about Australia's "brave new world", the more I mourn that once cocky, irreverent, courageous nation of men and women; very sad.....

Irony is, most molestations are committed by relatives of the minors in their own home, not strangers on a plane!

Does the flight staff keep an eye on kids travelling alone, or do they expect other passengers to do that.

Do they think that a male seated next to the children is going to do anything the TSA hasn't already done before boarding?

so apparently, according to Virgin Airlines, not only are all men pedophiles-in-potenita, but they are also stupid ones who will molest a child on a full flight, with his brother sitting not a foot away. And furthermore, women are angels and would never do such a thing. Wow, I'm female and I'm actually offended by this. Thank you Virgin Airlines. Without this I may have gone through my whole life not being suspicious of every man who even glances at my son.

Do they think that all women are safe? There is another story on Yahoo about a woman who was in prison for about 50 years becuse she killed a baby she was babysitting.

And if someone started mistreating kids on an airplane, would the other passengers keep quiet?

Will they allow a passenger to change seats if the children next to you are disruptive and obnoxious?

Since the airlines refuse to seat families together without high fees involved we'll be seeing alot more of these stories.

woman can be pedaphiles to......

It doesn't sound like the guy chose that seat, he was assigned to it. Maybe the airline could get their act together and not seat them that way to begin with. It certainly sounds humiliating.

In that light, no one should have been permitted to sit next to these boys. Women have seduced minors, too.

but they allowed TWO BOYS to sit together? Weren't they afraid that there might be some...you know....."mile high club" activity? Maybe all the women should sit in the back of the plane, and all the men sit in the front so the women can watch them and make sure they don't do anything "sexual". Or maybe each man should have his own row of seats, to be certain that they're isolated from any other human contact, because "you know how men are".

so wait, while it is wrong to profile someone that may "look" like trouble it is ok to assume this guy is a child molester and pedophile and move him out of his seat on an airplane.