{"id":41009,"date":"2019-09-30T05:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41009"},"modified":"2019-09-30T05:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T05:22:26","slug":"airline-introduces-seat-map-to-allow-passengers-to-avoid-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41009","title":{"rendered":"Airline introduces seat map to allow passengers to avoid babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"71.8548387097\">\n<p><cite class=\"Paragraph__cite\">(CNN) \u2014 <\/cite><span>Every traveler has their pet peeves, but crying babies are almost guaranteed to grate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now Japan Airlines has revealed a new tool that lets you dodge infants when you book your seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Passengers traveling with children between 8 days and 2 years old who select their seats on the JAL website will have a child icon displayed on their seats on the seat selection screen,&#8221; reads the airline&#8217;s website. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionedImage__component\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"Image__component CaptionedImage__image Image__hasAspectRatio\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com\/cnn\/e_blur:500,q_auto:low,w_50,c_fill,g_auto,h_28,ar_16:9\/http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.cnn.com%2Fcnnnext%2Fdam%2Fassets%2F190926100333-japan-airlines-baby-seat-map.jpg\" alt=\"The move will be a boon for travelers who like to avoid babies.\"><\/div>\n<p>The move will be a boon for travelers who like to avoid babies.<\/p>\n<p>Japan Airlines<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>&#8220;This lets other passengers know a child may be sitting there.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And one Twitter user praised the feature following a recent flight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Thank you, @JAL_Official_jp for warnings me about where babies plan to scream and yell during a 13 hour trip,&#8221; wrote Rahat Ahmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This really ought to be mandatory across the board.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before babyphobes get too excited, Japan Airlines cautions that the baby map will not display child icons in certain situations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It only works for bookings made through the JAL website, for example, and icons will not display if there is a change in aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If you are taking a small child on your trip, JAL offers a number of services to make your experience better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The airline provides a number of strollers for rent in the airport, and will accept baby strollers as checked baggage for free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Passengers traveling with infants also enjoy priority boarding, and offers hot water for bottles as well as diaper changing facilities on board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CNN has contacted JAL for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) \u2014 Every traveler has their pet peeves, but crying babies are almost guaranteed to grate. Now Japan Airlines has revealed a new tool that lets you dodge infants when you book your seat. &#8220;Passengers traveling with children between 8 days and 2 years old who select their seats on the JAL website will have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}