9-month-old baby cries for 2 minutes on a Business Class flight and entitled passenger flips out, traveling mom puts her in her place: ‘I told her, ”with all due respect…"’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Oct 31, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Traveling is already stressful for anyone. Now imagine doing it alone with a newborn baby. THAT is doing life on the difficult level. But what else are you supposed to do? Just not travel? Come on. That is so unfair to people just trying to start a family. 

 

This hardworking mom had decided to use some points to have her and her 9-month-old baby to fly comfortably to another country. So she booked a Business Class flight. Sometimes you end up sitting next to a baby that cries the entire time. If you think you're having a hard time, just think about the parent! Have some empathy. However, this mom's baby cried for maybe two minutes simply to alert mom that they were hungry. The mom got the bottle out, which took two minutes, and then the baby stopped crying. But now we hear another cry, that of an entitled Karen passenger who was yelling about how babies don't belong in business class. Like, grow up, lady. 

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  • I recently flew from nyc to Zurich with my nine month old. It was a red eye, so I figured I had some points to burn and I booked a business class lay flat so both of us would be able to get some sleep.
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  • I got on the flight and u loaded us, baby was chilling, just looking around. A woman comes to take the seat next to me and I hear her say pretty loudly "are you kidding me".
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  • I didn't think anything of it, flight took off, baby lay down and slept for 3h.
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  • At that point, baby woke up and was hungry, so cried. I immediately sat her up and went to make her a bottle, she was crying for a total of I dunno, two minutes?
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  • This woman next to me, who had been sleeping, flies up, proceeds to give me the finger, and stomps over to the flight attendant deck where she loudly tells them that I need to be "put in economy".
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  • When she comes back, she tells me that babies don't belong in business class and if I can't "control my infant” I shouldn't be there.
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  • I told her I was doing my best and that she can, with all due respect, fuck off, and if she didn't want the roulette of who she sat next to on a commercial flight she could fly her ass private.
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  • She put in her headphones and didn't speak to me the rest of the flight. I later told my MIL this and she said she agrees that babies shouldn't be in business class, that it's an unspoken rule that if you're flying with a child, you should fly economy.
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  • I think this is absurd? Why should I be in economy if I don't have to be just because I have a baby?
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  • That seems insane to me. AITA?
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  • darjeelingexpress Same! Also: child free by choice and frequent business traveler - babies and kids belong wherever. I've cried on so many flights the last few years (divorce + 1000 other things, blah blah blah) and I DARE someone to start some shit with me. Everyone can fly and cry. Miss Rachel was just named Glamour's Woman of the Year and I'm here for it. I love how this acknowledges the significance of women AND children. We are allowed to take up space and not constantly apologize.
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  • OP stone2891 "Everyone can fly and cry" may be my new life motto LMAO
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  • crazykitty123 LOL, at first I thought it said you took your baby to a business class
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  • Eef_oztastic Ha ha, this is fucking hilarious. I flew business class at Christmas time, there were 52 babies on the flight.... 25 of them were in business class. You cannot dictate who is allowed in what section. If they have a ticket they can sit there.
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  • Visible-Archer2582 I've had two adults on a flight who talked the whole 10 hour flight. An infant will eventually get tired and go to sleep.
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  • mikoline97 I spent 8 hours in first class next to a mother whose baby cried for 7 hours. I was very sorry for her, I didn't glare or get angry but I was disgusted to have paid so much for my ticket and not to have managed to sleep all night.
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  • MommersHeart I fly a LOT. Mostly business class, due to upgrades from my status. This woman must never (or rarely) have flown business class before because if she did, she'd know: A) 'putting someone in economy' is not a thing. B) babies and children fly too, and sometimes even in business. This person was an idiot. NTA
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  • Thistime232 NTA. Business class is about getting more comfortable seats and nicer food. Its not about not having to sit next to a baby. That spoiled rich woman can deal with it just like everyone else.
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  • divinbuff I flew non stop from Tel Aviv to NYC next to a young mom whose baby was obviously not feeling well and was crying. I finally asked her if I could hold the baby and jolly him a bit. She looked at me funny but said ok. He was fine as long as he was being rocked or walked or jostled a bit. By the time we were 3 hours into this flight we had a team of people taking turns helping out with him. Poor woman was slightly unwell herself ( hey it was 35 years ago-expectations were different then-
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  • Thick-Ad5738 NTA. If you can afford it you get to be in business or first for that matter. Unwritten rule? Your MIL is just inventing things. Maybe she couldn't afford business when her children were small and she is just salty
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  • rememberimapersontoo NTA your baby is a human being and has just as much right to be in business class as anyone else. did think from the title you meant like, a class at a university though. lol
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