Honestly, I will never wrap my head around how people can happily bring infants on any flight where you can expect people to try and sleep, it’s incredibly lucky if they don’t spend some of it screaming their heads off—I would be mortified if my choices were preventing hundreds of people from sleeping. But I’m not going to rant too hard about that.
Why on earth hasn’t any airline started marketing adult-only flights?
It seems like a complete no brainer to me, I would choose it every time and pay extra for it.
Disclaimer: I may or may not be on a 36h day with only an hour of sleep right now
Parents want and need to travel too, and they can’t just abandon their babies at home and feel bad leaving them with other relatives. For overseas trips your only alternative to flying is a weeklong boat trip, and parents would need to make preparations for diapers and a whole lot of other things just to make this trip.
Babies and small children will make noise on buses, planes, cars, boats and trains or wherever they are. They don’t save it for a specific moment but it’s understandable they get stressed when riding something for the first time. You and I were babies at some point.
For domestic/continental travel, ride a train and book a solo sleeper car.
For flying, well… book a private charter flight and invite only adults/no one for guaranteed peace and quiet.