Reply #81: Agreed [View All]

If you can't comply with the safety rules, which are there for your protection, the other passengers protection, and the airline's liability, then the airline shouldn't have to let you back on their planes.

There are two main things it seems people are missing here. If you're not wearing your seatbelt when you hit an airpocket in turbulence you can be severely injured. I've personally witnessed peopel throw up and hit the ceiling of the airplane in an airpocket, only to immediatly crash back down on another passenger, injuring both of them. The seatbelt sign may be a bit overused and 'crying wolf' now, but they're erring on the safer side, and after seeing what I have I can't argue.

The second thing is that as you mention multiple eyewitness reports, and the parents themselves, admit the kid were out of control and running up and down the aisles when the seatbelt sign was on, and the parents didn't do anything to stop them. They willfully disobeyed a safety rule in place for everyone's protection.