Business travellers demand ‘child-free’ flights

Corporate travellers said nothing annoyed them more than children running through their section or, if they were not upgraded, hearing their noise from economy class.

Almost three quarters (74%) of business class passengers get annoyed by children on flights, research for the Business Travel & Meetings show in London next week found.

Other concerns included 18% of those who had paid full price for tickets seeing economy class passengers getting a free upgrade.

And 15% want more privacy from economy passengers on the same flight. Poor service in upgraded sections was a complaint among 12% of 1,000 regular business class travellers surveyed by the show.