Your lap children are now taxed

[paulney]

I'll keep it short (don't want to overload ATOT collective brain cells)

Bought a vacation package for the family to Mexico.
Called the airline (Virgin America) to let them know we'll have lap child.
Lap children fly free.
But if they fly internationally, they are taxed.
Tax is $12 for the child.

My mind, it boggles.

 

[zinfamous]

it's to make you think twice if you plan on smuggling drugs back with your babies.

 

[coxmaster]

You're just damn lucky they even allow lap children.

In my opinion there is absolutely no reason it should be legal

 

[HAL9000]

Took me a minute to figure out what a lap child was, but I got there, I got there.

 

[paulney]

You're just damn lucky they even allow lap children.

In my opinion there is absolutely no reason it should be legal

If Paris Hilton can have a lap dog, I damn well can have a lap child!

 

[HAL9000]

If Paris Hilton can have a lap dog, I damn well can have a lap child!

I like your thinking sir! Damn straight you can!

 

[Perknose]

You paying $12 to Virgin Air to transport a separate human being you brought into the world hundreds of miles to another part of the world vs. the very real possibility of your infant crying and impinging on the quality of the flight for all the other full paying passengers around you?

Seems like a bargain for you, under the circumstances. Not trying to be harsh here, but what do you really feel you have to complain about?

 

[SKORPI0]

Don't be a cheapskate, buy a ticket for the child.

 

[Nebor]

You're just damn lucky they even allow lap children.

In my opinion there is absolutely no reason it should be legal

Agreed.

 

[paulney]

You paying $12 to Virgin Air to transport a separate human being you brought into the world hundreds of miles to another part of the world vs. the very real possibility of your infant crying and impinging on the quality of the flight for all the other full paying passengers around you?

Seems like a bargain for you, under the circumstances. Not trying to be harsh here, but what do you really feel you have to complain about?

Don't like the noise from crying children? Bring earplugs. I will fly wherever I need with whoever I need, in this case, my child. If children under two fly free, they fly free. Where'd the tax come from?

 

[paulney]

Don't be a cheapskate, buy a ticket for the child.

Children under 2 fly free. Any other sage advice?

 

[brianmanahan]

put your tyke in luggage where it belongs

 

[paulney]

put your tyke in luggage where it belongs

Sorry, the luggage is full with my pet snakes.

 

[coxmaster]

Children under 2 fly free. Any other sage advice?

No they dont.. According to Virgin children under 2 (or a specific weight) fly free domestically and may be subject to fees and taxes.

 

[paulney]

No they dont.. According to Virgin children under 2 (or a specific weight) fly free domestically and may be subject to fees and taxes.

Hence the thread. Where did the international tax come from?
The CSR could not explain.

 

[Orsorum]

Took me a minute to figure out what a lap child was, but I got there, I got there.

Hahaha.

 

[coxmaster]

Hence the thread. Where did the international tax come from?
The CSR could not explain.

It could come from a variety of different things. Lots of countries charge a "tax" or fee for international travel. Odds are you as a paying customer paid the same extra tax as the fleshy projectile you carried on but you paid yours up front rather than at the last minute.

 

[preslove]

I don't see how this is strange. If the tax is on passengers then that kid on your knee qualifies.

 

[JackBurton]

They should charge you an extra grand to bring a kid on board a plane.

 

[Newbian]

They should charge you an extra grand to bring a kid on board a plane.

Three times if at anytime said kid cries.

 

[Perknose]

Don't like the noise from crying children? Bring earplugs. I will fly wherever I need with whoever I need, in this case, my child.

Of course you will and of course you may, I never said otherwise. But YOU complaining about paying $12 for doing so makes YOU look like a clueless and arrogant asshole.

If children under two fly free, they fly free. Where'd the tax come from?

The tax came from the same magic and unexplored place that let's YOUR CHILD fly for free. By which I mean, if you magically don't question that, then please don't turn around and bleat like an abandoned heifer about a measly $12 charge for the privilege.

There's a price for everything. You flying with me on this point, cap'n? Can you gain the intellectual altitude to understand and then accept this basic point?

Because my point to you is that you paying $12 for your infant, be it by tax or service charge or fare, is a freaking bargain, and you complaining about it is . . . clueless, unseemly and arrogant.

 

[Capt Caveman]

$12? Oh Noes!!!

 

[Anubis]

You paying $12 to Virgin Air to transport a separate human being you brought into the world hundreds of miles to another part of the world vs. the very real possibility of your infant crying and impinging on the quality of the flight for all the other full paying passengers around you?

TBH children between the ages of 4 and 16 are MUCH MUCH MUCH worse on long airplane flights then babies

 

[paulney]

Because my point to you is that you paying $12 for your infant, be it by tax or service charge or fare, is a freaking bargain, and you complaining about it is . . . clueless, unseemly and arrogant.

I suggest you get off your high horse. I'm paying more in luggage fees than the costs of the child to the airline.

 

[coxmaster]

Of course you will and of course you may, I never said otherwise. But YOU complaining about paying $12 for doing so makes YOU look like a clueless and arrogant asshole.

The riskrice ratio is great too! Very few other places offer the amount of danger and risk that a lap baby encounters for $12!