No Children Here: An Airline Introduces an “Adults-Only” Section

One airline seems to have found a solution for those bothered by the presence of kids on their flight. The company is testing a “child-free” seating zone, but there’s a catch.

Corendon Airlines is allowing adult passengers to stay away from kids on their flights. In an experiment that will start in November 2023, on flights between Amsterdam and Curaçao, the European company will have seats in an area reserved for people 16 years or older. However, seating in the “adults-only” section at the front of the plane will cost extra.

According to Corendon, an extra fee will be charged for each of the 93 regular seats and the 9 extra-legroom ones reserved in their Airbus A350 jets. It will cost roughly 45 euros ($49) for the regular and 100 euros ($109) for the more spacious ones.

This comes just days after a video went viral that showed a kid with a light-up costume keeping people awake on a flight. In the footage, shot in a dimly lit plane, which suggests an overnight flight, several passengers behind the little girl and her father are seen either with their heads down, trying to sleep or looking baffled due to the disruptive outfit.

The incident stirred a heated debate online, with people calling for child-free flights. “I vote for adult-only flight[s]. I would pay extra for adult-only flights,” one user wrote on social media.

Traveling by plane means following all sorts of rules and regulations that can often be a source of stress. For example, a woman was banned from boarding her flight for wearing a bikini, and the incident sparked a debate online about whether or not her outfit was okay for traveling.