Airline testing an adults-only section
DALLAS (AP) — One airline plans to find out if solitude-seeking travelers will pay a hefty extra charge to avoid sitting near babies and little kids.
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 A350 jets, which have 432 seats in all. A wall or curtain will separate the section from the wailing masses farther back.
https://apnews.com/article/airline-test-adults-only-seats-265894c40e7bc7d716ed80db6b810515
The airline will charge an extra reservation fee of 45 euros ($49) for the no-kids zone. Doesn't sound like a hefty fee to me.
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An adults only zone impresses me as the modern equivalent of the old non-smoking section, except they are charging you for the illusion that sound (like cigarette smoke) does not travel. 
there was adult entertainment in the adult section! 🤪🫢
Mike high club here I come!! ✈️
for those curmudgeons among us
…my airline miles on a first class ticket as a birthday present. After all, I had been getting almost daily emails for several years about the grand uses of my miles.
I’ll spare you (and myself) recounting everything, but it was a kind of bitter joke, from the cracked leather seats to the limp lettuce and canned soup. (In a desperate bid for better food I asked for a diabetic meal and was told they didn’t do special meals any more.) The best part was flying home economy class (having used up all my miles just getting from California to NY State) with extra legroom — and I paid $$ extra for it every time the damn airplane hit another airport.
After I got home I went to the local Chase bank and had a human being disengage me from the mileage membership thingy (Chase Visa). When asked why, I told the nice human in detail and they took notes into the computer.
In any case, as I used to tell my non-travelling husband every time he tried to point me toward a cheap flight, the actual airfare is whatever you get when you add every fee onto the advertised special. Do you, a passenger over 6ft, want to travel without your knees hitting your chin? $$. Do you, a 5’4” woman with an arthritic knee, not want to be in agony? $$. Would you like to be able to exit your seat for the lavatory without stomping on your fellow passengers and falling in their laps? $$. Would you, an adult, like to wear something when you arrive besides whatever it was you wore on the flight? $$
When I was a kid, the evening news used to be sponsored by Pan Am, and Cronkite or whoever it was used to sign off with, “Good night and good flying.”
Happy flying to you. 
My trip to Maui last year, there was a kid who was kicking my seat the entire flight and it was really starting to get on my nerves by the end. I would happily pay an extra few bucks to avoid that on my next flight!
Also thank god for noise canceling headphones! 
