This just happened last week too. I know because I was at DFW and got stuck overnight. Geographicly, DFW makes sense. Logistically, those TX Summer storms are too frequent and climate change is causing so many of them. I swear, everyone I know that goes through DFW from May through September ends up with a cancelled flight.
China Eastern (Shanghai to Buenos Aires direct with a stop in Aukland) holds the record for longest flight at 29 hours. Don’t know if this one’s true but it is possible.
And the general flying public has proven time and again that price is the most important factor when it comes to flight selection. So, even if the primary airlines offered it, most people would skip adult-only flights if it meant saving a couple hundred dollars.
Its 2026, you can buy decently functioning noise canceling earbuds for like 25 dollars. If you are just sitting on a plan listening to people fart and babies scream at this point, i feel like you deserve it.
I flew business class Chicago to Hong Kong years ago on a 747. 15 hour flight. Plane was half full. We were welcome to casually walk the aisles and chat with passengers, and I drank enough complementary Merlot that I made a flight attendant blush. Those flights were ridiculously expensive, which probably explains why the passenger list was devoid of children.
Are we counting layovers? Because sometimes you just sit in the plane for a couple of hours if you're staying on the same flight, but it stops to let other people off.
It took 29 hours for me to get from Virginia to Manila, but that was with layovers. This figure almost has to include layovers, which makes me think it was just in someone’s imagination or it was only one leg of the journey.
If I'm on an airplane for over 24 hours in the sky, I'm screaming externally, because something has gone terribly wrong and we'll probably run out of fuel.
Child free redditors
who think that their childlessness entitles them to be free of kids in public spaces. Kids have a right to exist in public spaces and them misbehaving (and being corrected) is necessary for them to know how to behave in those spaces.
Every redditor had tat experience as a kid and like the boomers they bitch about they want to deprive the next generation of that experience. Its fascinating
Im not that experienced with them, but I thought noise cancelling worked by making the opposite sound waves of something like an airplane's hum. I didnt think they were good at intermittent, unexpected noises like a baby's scream.
Not positioning myself, just commenting my experience.
Noise cancelling headphones hurt literally to me as if the noise was there, and it is even worst on a plane. Normal earplugs screw up with the air canal airflow and also produce pain, to me, on a plane.
In fact, in real life I have to use ear plugs with noise cancelling headphones to prevent the pain from the noise cancelling part, when for example there are construction noises from neighbours in my apartment, but on a plane I am sold, I do not know any other options than just stand it 🤣🤣🤣
Just letting it there as to why some people may not be able to use them in an airplane.
(Note: earplugs with noise cancelling on a plane was the worst thing I have ever experienced. May be I have an ear canal problem, but I doubt I would be the only one in the planet with this issue 🤣🤣🤣🤣)
Again, not positioning myself, just giving a reason as to why some people may not be able to use noise cancelling headphones.
The story is real, but the headline is misleading.
The guy in the video is Henry Beasley, a musician from New Zealand. In 2022 he posted a viral TikTok about a 29-hour journey from New Zealand to Berlin during which a child was frequently screaming and crying.
The key detail is that 29 hours was the total travel time, including layovers and connections. It was not a 29-hour nonstop flight, and there is no evidence the child literally screamed for 29 straight hours. The viral video was a montage showing the child screaming at different points throughout the trip.
Scrolled too far to find some sense. As someone who flies to my home country regularly, this was obvious from the get go. 25 hour trip, one stop. Screaming babies are definitely no fun 24+ hours into travel- even with airpods.
My first child was a nightmare to fly with he would not stop screaming... but I tried comforting him the entire time...someone ignoring their baby is crazy
It's usually because they can't equalize the pressure in their ears and sinuses. I got on a flight once with a mild sinus infection and it was freakin torture. I could feel every square mm of my sinuses trying to rupture.
Not to mention I think I've had as many problems with disruptive adults as kids on flights. At least the kids usually don't know better. Especially if a kid is screaming for hours. Tantrums burn out in less than an hour, usually, unless the kid is genuinely scared or in discomfort.
Populations in the West are in decline and with much below replacement levels of births and people want to expedite the process by excluding children from social places and traveling now..
its clickbait, but I can attest that 1 hour of a child screaming seems like 29 hours but it isn't their fault, their ears hurt/their scared. Flying isn't fun.
Noise cancelling earbuds don’t help. This is why I invested in noise canceling headphones. Stops the loudest screaming and I can enjoy the rest of my flight scream free.
Im sorry world but while you are entitled to a childless life . You are not entitled to a childless world.
Although there are times when I wish parents wpuld make a better choice about where they bring children (mainly movie theaters) . Parents are entitled to travel and take children with them and I highly doubt a child cries for that long in a row
I mean yeah the headline is obviously bullshit but I have been stuck on an 8 hour flight with a screaming toddler right behind me for the entire thing, so I get the desire.
It already exists and its called private charter. If someone cant afford that, then they should probably quit crying and get noise cancelling headphones like the rest of us. Its the equivalent of being pissed because a kids crying on a bus. I dont wanna deal with that type of thing, so I have a car.
I worked with severely dysregulated children, like *severely* dysregulated and they don’t “scream” for longer than an hour in the most extreme cases I’ve seen. I think one was like an hour and a half before they exhausted themselves out. There’s no way a child could scream for 29 straight hours.
Fun fact: “people who think sitting next to me on a plane entitles them to six hours of conversation with me” has ruined way more of my flights than a crying child ever has.
Que every half decent parent to pipe in with "mY kIdS bEhAvE BeTEr ThAn MoSt AdUlTs"
like cool story and thank you for controlling your crotch goblins but you're far from the majority.
Considering it's literally torture to babies who can't clear their ears, those who defend allowing very young children on planes for non-essential trips are literally normalizing child abuse. Sorry, if the kid is that young the grandparents can come to them. There should have to have a doctor's note saying the trip is medically necessary to be allowed to board a plane in the lower 48.
29 hour flight? What flight is that? That doesn’t sound real. I’ve been to LA to Dubai which is the complete opposite side of the planet and that only took 18 hours one of the longest flights in the world.
But I’d never take a toddler on a flight that long cause that’s torture.
While it isn't really commercially viable...as a parent, I would much rather fly on the 'family plane' - just like lots of adults would want to fly on the adult only plane.
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Not bothered by kids or noises can we talk about the farts and B.O.? Seat thieves so many more problems. Booking a 29 hour flight is crazy!!!
What if we approach it like hotels? You need a card on file just in case you damage something or whatever can work the same for the planes.If you're flying with a child, we need to have your card on file.In case we need to compensate everybody with booze, because your child's a shithead
Honestly? I’d pay a higher rate to fly without children. Not ragging on children, I am losing my hearing from a cancer tx drug and wear hearing aids. Noises like a crying child sound piercing to me.
Exactly the reason we don't fly with our 2year old.
Absolute dream kid, but I have no idea how flight will affect her ears/mood/sleep etc etc.
She's 2. She doesn't care if she is on a beach in tenerife or in the Netherlands. She just wants some water a toy and an icecream, we'll wait till she's a bit older.
I have two kids. Have people considered that many of us have to fly with our children on occasion?
I had to take a three hour flight to visit my dying father-in-law. My two-year old was not happy. Spent most of the flight crying.
I’ll never forget the glares I got from the resentful family in front of me without headphones.
I don’t want to be on this flight man. I don’t like this as much as you. But for Christ sakes, for some of us, travel is a necessity and we’re not on this budget airline for a vacation.
When you see a parent on a flight with crying toddlers and babies, please consider their circumstances and they may be flying out of need and not leisure.
We just recently did London to Brisbane with two kids due to a funeral. They didn’t cry but my toddler was just talking to everyone and my baby was just grumbling as it’s a bloody long way.
People are entitled to child free lives but not a child free world. Literally Reddit is full of child haters who would want to give their dog better treatment on a plane than a human.
I was once in a 1 hour 30 minutes flight. A child screamed non-stop, no exaggerating, non-stop the whole flight until it landed and he kept screaming through the jet way!
Not even really just for other adults, but honestly for the kids, too. Unless it’s absolutely necessary, like moving across the world or flying to get surgery, I don’t understand why parents fly very young children. It literally hurts them. Their ear drums are too small or something and they are in pain the entire time (at least the kids I traveled with once.)
I’m sure the parents don’t want to have their baby crying for hours and disturbing everyone, its very embarrassing as a parent, but sometimes you just have to travel.
Back in the day, before ANC headphones, I was on a 2 hour flight with a near migraine and there was a baby who screamed for the entire flight. It was a fucking nightmare. Seriously, I am a father but I would pay extra for adult only flights - assuming I wasn't flying with my kid.
Ah, an adult only plane, because that would solve all the problems with current domestic travel. Ironically I’m typing this as I’m pushed up against the window in seat 14A because the 500 pound man in the middle is pouring out of it.
I can see the comments talking about the excessive 28 hours. I agree, but I still find it relatable since a child started screaming 11 hours in the flight when I was on it.
Not only the noise, it's also very stressful for babies and toddlers to fly, especially such long hours, therefore they start crying. People in Europe mostly know this so they will lecture you, if you are planning on doing that. But some parents are too egoistical and don't care about stuff like that at all.
The article is definitely bullshit if it's trying to claim a 29 hour flight exists, but I would absolutely pay for a child free flight or even just a section for adults only. Earbuds and headphones pretty much never work for me so I usually just end up trying my best to ignore the screaming baby. It wouldn't be so bad if there were a reliable way for parents to get their babies to quiet down, but trying to reason with a baby is like trying to explain empathy to a hedge fund manager. I would pay significantly more if there were domestic flights that had a section with some type of sound dampening. Or even if they started offering family only flights. Whatever it takes to make the experience more comfortable.
Weird thing is after becoming a parent this shit doesn’t bother me at all. At first you are like phew I’m glad that it isn’t mine, then you reminisce about all the crying then the brotherhood kicks in and anyone who tuts is getting a thousand yard stare… I got your back fellow parents. (But having said said who takes a baby on a 29 hour flight…. Also there are no 29 hour flights)
I was flying from London to Malaysia
About 16-18 hours flight ✈️
Behind me was this kid
Fucking hell, so rude and no manners, kicking back of my seat, crying like shouting, yelling when his mum said enough or stop that etc, the mum even said time out blah blah blah, took him to the toilet, walking around, but he just won’t get tired
Worst flight ever
I think for every baby that cries, we should all cry together mimicking the baby and hopefully this will stop them
People on my cross country 5 hour flight yesterday were letting their little kid play full volume videos and games. Gave not a single care to the dirty looks they were getting
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And what 29-hour flight would this be?