One airline wants to know if people who want their own space will pay a significant premium to avoid sitting next to infants and young children.
Starting in November, Corendon Airlines will offer an adults-only area on flights between Amsterdam and Curacao, with no children allowed.
According to the Turkish airline, travelers who are not with children will experience tranquil surroundings and parents won't have to worry that their fussy or crying children would irritate other passengers.
Last week, Corendon made the announcement that it will reserve 93 normal seats and nine seats with extra legroom for adults in the front of its 432-seat Airbus A350 aircraft. The area will be divided from the sobbing crowds further back by a wall or curtain.
According to the airline's website, there will be an additional reservation price of 45 euros ($49) for the no-kids area and a fee of 100 euros ($109) for a seat with more legroom.
In response to your further inquiry, it typically takes 10 hours to fly from Amsterdam to Curacao.
There might be a demand for adult seats, according to Brett Snyder, who also operates a travel firm and blogs at Cranky Flier.
“For a heavy leisure airline like Corendon, which is probably full of families with little kids, I can see the appeal for someone traveling without kids to pay extra to be away from them to have more peace and quiet,” Snyder said.
However, he continued, people in the adult area may still hear sobbing, “so it’s like the old days when you were in the last row of the non-smoking section but could still taste that smoke.”
The Corendon additional price is sufficiently modest to draw a large number of customers, according to Scott Keyes, proprietor of the flight-search website Going, and the airline gains another advantage.
"New leisure airlines need strong marketing to break through,” he said. “Trying something new and generating free press is valuable for an otherwise little-known airline.”
The airline Corendon is not the first to experiment with a section without young children.
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