Good For Her!

[Sqad]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4028108/I-don-t-want-sit-screaming-baby-Mother-carrying-infant-denied-class-seat-passengers-angry-hasn-t-paid-right.html

Who does she think she is? Having a baby is not a modern innovation it has been going on for centuries.
If I had bought a first class ticket I would not have been best please to sit next to a woman with a screaming baby even if she HAD bought a first class ticket and would have been infuriated to learn that she HADN'T purchased the appropriate ticket.

It was quite correct that she should have been......evicted.

[jno]

the seat was empty but the other woman was using it to put her luggage on. Do you think she'd paid for the two first-class seats?

[murraymints]

the mother had not paid for first class at all !! ...

[Peter Pedant]

O god you have been sucking your limones de Ethpanya today Sqad

I quite like screaming kids ( well I did work in a childrens hospital for thirty years ) and reminds me of my own mortality but others do not .... but it is a journey for chrissakes
You have to keep your eye on the target - here is it is getting there / arriving

a light news day I think

[ummmm]

The baby wasn't screaming!!

[Sqad]

jno...that is not the point in my opinion.
The point being that a woman who had not bought a first class ticket seemed to think that a baby in arms...a screaming one at that.....entitled her to first class travel.
It doesn't.

[jno]

murray, according to the story, passengers had been told to sit anywhere because Southern is in such a mess (which it is)

[ummmm]

The baby wasn't screaming!

[ichkeria]

Well, I disagree.
The baby was not "screaming" and did, indeed, seem to be behaving better than the frankly rather oboxious gits in that carriage.
Anyone who responds with
"And you have to respect your elders and betters" deserves to be thrown off the train :-)

[Sqad]

ummmm...correct....my mistake.

[DEESMITH1970]

A spokesperson from Southern Rail told the MailOnline: "Our priority seats are available in both standard class and first class"

[murraymints]

as she had no appropriate ticket for this carriage she ought to have been directed to that which she was entitled to... .irrespective of baby.....there are priority seats in these carriages too....people pay for comfort after all..perhaps different had she had the appropriate ticket ??

[naomi24]

Whether or not the other passenger was using a seat for her luggage is irrelevant. Had someone who had a proper ticket wanted the seat, no doubt she would have moved it. I'd be a bit miffed to have paid a premium price to travel when fellow travellers hadn't.

[ichkeria]

... and the lady had a right to a priority seat in First Class, by the sound of it, so the other passengers need to take it up with the train company

[murraymints]

only if there were no priority seats in the class she had paid for ! ^^

[naomi24]

//and the lady had a right to a priority seat in First Class//

How so? She had a right to a priority seat, but not in First Class.

[donny48]

Another passenger points out that at the last station 'that because of Southern problems you can travel in any part of the train'.

[Sqad]

.....well......why can't ANYBODY with a bag or case or child or any encumbrance, go and sit in a spare First Class seat with an ordinary ticket?
That would lead to chaos and what would be the point of First Class tickets..it would be a matter of "first come, first seated."

[EDDIE51]

I'm assuming it was the ONLY seat available on the train. In which case the woman should have been allowed to use it. The woman who put the luggage on the seat is the one in the wrong.

[ummmm]

Aren't you given a seat number in first class?

[ichkeria]

See donny's previous answer. In the normal course of events, I agree, but this was not "normal". The train company need to look at this really: and maybe a few of those passengers should be made to watch that video and reflect ...