Budget Asian airline unveils child-free zones

Last year, Malaysian Airlines also banned infants from first-class cabins on

its Airbus A380 “superjumbo” aircrafts and Boeing 747s, claiming several

passengers have complained of noise from crying babies.

Jeremy Clarkson, the Top Gear presenter, recently prompted a strong reaction

from Twitter users after he suggested that children

should be stashed in the luggage hold during flights.

A survey last month suggested that unruly

children remain the biggest in-flight annoyance for the majority of

travellers – ahead of drunken passengers, surly cabin crew and

over-talkative neighbours.

Nearly a third of those surveyed said they would pay more to sit in a

child-free zone while a quarter would pay up to £50 per return flight for

the privilege, and seven per cent said they would pay even more.

A poll of Telegraph Travel readers last year also found that nearly 70 per

cent would support the introduction of child-free flights.

The Singapore-based Scoot Airlines runs daily services to Sydney and five

flights a week to the Gold Coast.

Budget Asian airline unveils child-free zones