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Sat 07 Jul 2009Etihad finds a way to keep earache at bay
AIRLINE NANNIES:TRAVELLING with young children can be a nightmare – especially for other people. If parents are tearing their hair out with the screaming, earaches, tantrums and the difficulty of nappy changing on an aircraft, imagine how adult passengers without children feel.
The annoyance is apparently making people book higher-fare airlines. A survey of 750 people by Continental Research found that 28 per cent of travellers are deterred from budget airlines because of screaming children. On traditional carriers, just 15 per cent were put off flying by noisy children.
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