THE ban on smoking in planes in 1996 creates a new opportunity to reuse the no-smoking section.
Now airlines can segregate those snivelling nasty little creatures called children.
That's the opinion aired by the new edition of The International Guide to Airlines and Airports , which our informant discovered sitting in the family mailbox.
We've heard rumblings of anti-child feeling before from business class passengers, and now the rebels have a leader: the unnamed author of this otherwise dull yearly guide, which devotes most of its pages to hints on 'surviving jet lag' and giving details of the legroom on Uganda Airlines.
'If Business Class is not a misnomer,' he rants, 'why do we find toddlers terrorising half a plane-load of professionals intent to work on their computers, to discuss business proposals with their co-workers, or indeed catch a nap between meetings?' He describes a sleepless night because of 'screaming kids' as 'one of the most unpleasant experiences ever aboard any plane', an accolade we would normally reserve for crashing.
He suggests that the back of the cabin, previously the smoking section, should be turned into a 'screaming kids' section.
