The survey says: children on planes

We asked 3,292 Task Spotting users in the UAE for their opinion about children on planes. Here are the results

IndiGo airlines has established a child-free zone on some of its flights. Vivek Prakash / Resuters
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This week’s survey questions were prompted by a recent report that Indian airline IndiGo will set aside child-free “quiet zones” on its planes. This follows moves by other airlines, including Singapore’s Scoot, to restrict children to certain parts of their aircraft, and periodic campaigns – including one by CNN presenter Richard Quest – for business-class cabins to be restricted to adults only.

Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson went even further, suggesting that children be relegated to the hold on long-haul flights.

We asked users of the TaskSpotting app for their attitudes on this divisive issue. TaskSpotting describes itself as the region’s only advocate marketing platform and pitches our questions to its app community who typically engage with brands to create content, spread awareness and share feedback.

Of the 3,292 respondents, 60 per cent said that they had been disrupted by a child on a plane, and 64 per cent said there should be child-free ­areas on planes.

Only 14 per cent of respondents agreed with the suggestion that children should be banned from business class – but more than half of them said they would take a child-free flight if one were available.