Airline testing an adults-only section [View all]

[Auggie]

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.