An American Airlines plane collided with a military helicopter crashing into the Potomac River near D. Corendon Airlines says that it will sell an adults-only zone — no one under 16 — on flights between Amsterdam and Curacao starting in November.
The Turkish carrier says people traveling without children will get quiet surroundings, and parents won't have to worry that their crying or fidgeting kids will annoy fellow passengers. Corendon announced last week that it will set aside 93 regular seats and nine extra-legroom seats in the adult zone in the front of its Airbus A jets, which have seats in all.
A wall or curtain will separate the section from the wailing masses farther back. Brett Snyder, who runs a travel agency and writes the Cranky Flier blog, said Tuesday that there could be demand for adult seats.
Then again, he added, people in the back of the adult zone might still hear crying, "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. Scott Keyes, founder of the flight-search site Going, said the Corendon extra fee is low enough to attract plenty of buyers, and the airline benefits in another way. Scoot, a low-cost airline based in Singapore, sells a section where passengers must be at least Back in , Malaysia Airlines announced it would not allow anyone under 12 in a seat economy section on the upper deck of its Airbus A jets.
The airline later retreated, saying that if there were too many families with children and infants to fit in the lower deck, it would find room for them in the adult economy section upstairs. Thu, 30 Jan GMT Fallback Presentation. Using deprecated PresentationRouter. Breaking News. Plane collides with military helicopter.
