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A woman has reignited the debate around child-free flights after posting a scathing criticism of a mother who changed her toddler’s nappy three times in the plane’s cabin.
By not going to the bathroom to change the youngster, the woman’s actions meant the aircraft “stunk like hell”, said the fellow passenger, who called for children to be barred on some flights.
Writing on Reddit, the woman claimed she was on a four-hour night flight from 10pm until 2am, flying back home from a holiday, but the journey was “awful” because of the young traveller, who she guessed was “probably one to two years old”.
“He kept getting all worked up at various points, yelling incoherent toddler babble, kicking the back of my seat, sticking his feet up on my arm rest, and SH***ING his pants regularly. Mom changed his diaper THREE times, IN the seat. Didn’t bother taking him to the bathroom even though she was one row up from the very back of the plane, right near…
