Passenger unleashes at dad over crying baby on flight

A dad was left stunned after a passenger yelled at his family during a flight because his baby was crying – but people are divided over the incident.

A dad was left stunned after a passenger yelled at his family during a flight because his two-year-old child was crying – but people are divided over the incident.

The 37-year-old man explained he was returning from a holiday in Mexico with his wife and two children aged seven and two.

He said on the six-hour flight out, his two-year-old slept the whole way, but they had problems on the plane home, The Sun reports.

In a lengthy Reddit post that has since attracted thousands of comments the dad said: “Just one hour later he starts crying. My wife and I try to keep him calm, and even though it worked, it only did for almost 30 minutes.

“He wanted to ‘walk’ but my wife and I tried to entertain him with his fave toys, but he was desperate to move.

“At this point he starts crying, but louder than the first time.”

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A passenger (not pictured) yelled at a dad on a plane for not controlling his crying baby. Picture: iStock

He said he could see other passengers were annoyed, only for one passenger to get up and confront them.

“He started [complaining to] my wife for ‘our bad parenting’ and demanded we control our baby,” he said.

“My wife, annoyed, told him that we are trying but he is overwhelmed. We are so sorry for upsetting him but we are trying.

“He said it wasn’t enough, he is tired and wants to sleep but our baby doesn’t let him. Again, my wife apologises and at this point, he starts yelling at us.”

The dad (not pictured) was returning from a holiday in Mexico with his wife and two kids when his youngest (not pictured) became unsettled and began to cry. Picture: iStock

The man then said that they were “irresponsible” and that babies “shouldn’t be allowed to travel”.

The dad said he ended up yelling back at him, with flight crew then telling him to go back to his seat.

However, he asked if he was in the wrong after his wife said he shouldn’t have yelled back at him.

Some people asked why they didn’t try other things to get the child to stop crying.

One person wrote: “Why didn’t one of you take [your son] for a walk up and down the plane aisle? I know it’s inconvenient to get a kid out of their seat and later back in it, but it sounds like he really needed to move some, and it would have been an easy solution to the issue.

Another agreed: “Your kid wanted you to walk. Why didn’t you take him for a few trips up and down the aisle?”

The dad (not pictured) said the passenger told him he was ‘irresponsible’ and that babies ‘shouldn’t be allowed to travel’. Picture: iStock

However, others said the passenger was out of line for yelling at the parents.

“The person causing a disturbance on the flight was the adult man who started yelling and created a scene, not your baby who cried intermittently,” one person wrote.

Another added: “Babies are allowed on planes. Living in the adult world means you sometimes don’t get everything the way you want. Don’t like it? Charter a private plane.”

The dad said the reason they didn’t take their boy for a walk was because “he tends to grab everything he sees”.

“Besides the fact he lets go of our hand constantly. So we didn’t want to cause problems or bother the other passengers,” the dad said.

He also responded to other comments asking why they “weren’t more prepared”.

“Yes, maybe we were unprepared as some of you already clarify, but I find it odd people suggest things like: ‘Why don’t you train [your son] by sitting him six hours straight?’ or ‘Give him melatonin next time.’ Seriously, if you don’t have kids please, don’t make comments like that,” the dad demanded.

A woman recently divided opinion after moaning about a crying child on flight – and called for adult-only planes.

She said in a video, which captured the sound of a screaming baby: “Why isn’t there such a thing as adult-only flights? I would pay SO much money.”

She then elaborated, explaining to commenters: “The flight was three hours and I listened to this the entire time.”

This story originally appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission