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Camera IconThe jewellery designer says she was subject to verbal abuse from another passenger on her recent Singapore flight. Credit: @charlotteheinrich\/Instagram\/Instagram<\/p>\nAn Aussie mum has sparked a debate online after revealing she got into a row with another passenger after she boarded a business class flight with her one-year-old baby.<\/p>\n
Charlotte Heinrich was flying business class to Singapore with her baby boy when a disgruntled passenger confronted her about his crying.<\/p>\n
The mum-of-two recalled the ordeal in a video posted to her Instagram page on Wednesday, captioned: \u201cShould mothers with babies be allowed to fly business class?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFreddie was crying a bit, and this lady took it upon herself to scream across the cabin at the top of her lungs, \u2018Shut up!\u2019\u201d she began.<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cThen that same lady stood up and stared me down and I said, \u2018Is everything OK?\u2019 And she said, \u2018No, your baby has been crying and I\u2019m in business class\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI said to this lady, \u2018Well you obviously haven\u2019t had kids, otherwise you would understand what it\u2019s like to have a child, and unfortunately this comes with having a baby,\u2019 and she said, \u2018I have five\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The jewellery designer, who frequently travels between Singapore and Australia, claimed the apparent mother-of-five then \u2018verbally abused\u2019 her for travelling in business class with a baby.<\/p>\n
Camera IconThe jewellery designer says she was subject to verbal abuse from another passenger on her recent Singapore flight. Credit: @charlotteheinrich\/Instagram\/Instagram<\/p>\n
Ms Heinrich continued: \u201cShe proceeded to say that because she had paid for her business class tickets, a mother and a child should never be in business class, they should always be in economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFreddie is one, so he travels on my lap. We quite literally come as a package deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The business owner admitted that she had been frustrated by children on flights previously but was stunned that the other passenger believed she didn\u2019t \u2018deserve\u2019 to fly business class with her baby.<\/p>\n
\u201cI completely understand that a crying baby can be frustrating. I\u2019ve been that passenger too. But children are part of life, and parents are usually far more stressed and anxious about disturbing the cabin than anyone else,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Heinrichsaid also revealed that she couldn\u2019t understand why the woman wasn\u2019t more understanding of her situation if she had five kids of her own like she claimed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad she not in her past life travelled with one of those kids and experienced a crying baby before?\u201d the mum asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cScreaming at the top of her lungs across the cabin at me. . . A mother with a crying child already feels hypersensitive, anxious, upset, you name it, they\u2019re feeling it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guarantee every mother with a crying child is trying everything she can to soothe their child.\u201d<\/p>\n
The video has garnered over 135,000 views and over 500 comments, with people torn over their opinion surrounding the business woman\u2019s ordeal.<\/p>\n
Some people were supportive, with one user commenting: \u201cThat\u2019s so ignorant. Hire a private plane if you don\u2019t want to travel with other people and babies\u201d.<\/p>\n
Another wrote: \u201cI always say you\u2019re entitled to a child free life, not a child free world\u201d.<\/p>\n
But not everyone was on her side, with some people arguing that passengers pay a premium to be able to travel in comfort.<\/p>\n
One person commented: \u201cPeople pay for business\/first class for the luxury and to be comfortable. Especially for long haul flights. And if a baby\/child is being disruptive then it\u2019s going to make for a disruptive\/uncomfortable flight\u201d<\/p>\n
Another user went so far as to say: \u201dBabies shouldn\u2019t be allowed on planes\u201d.<\/p>\n
Let us know in the comments if you think parents should be allowed to travel business class with children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Aussie mum has sparked a debate online after revealing she got into a row with another passenger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,1625,44,3792],"class_list":["post-845313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}