Mom and kid booted from plane, demand apology and compensation

It's easy for passengers to grow annoyed with kids on planes. There's nothing worse than hearing a scream and knowing you're about to be part of a captive audience for several hours. Yet, flight crews usually show a lot more tolerance. Hey, they're on the plane to earn a paycheck. Every job has trials to be endured. Pamela Root's son, however, was too much for them.

Kid and mom were kicked from the Southwest flight from Amarillo, Texas to San Jose, California, because the former was screaming, "Go! Plane! Go!" and "I want Daddy!" Root believes the kid would have piped down once the wheels were up, but the plane's staffers didn't want to roll the dice. Root and child were escorted off the plane.

Of course, the 38-year-old stay-at-home mom has her list of demands. In addition to an apology, she's looking for compensation for a portable crib and diapers that she needed to buy for the unplanned extra night away from home. I'm curious as to why. She'd need the diapers anyway: the kids bowels, I suspect, work just as well in Amarillo as they did in San Jose -- no more, no less. And, where did the kid sleep the nights before she bought the portable crib? Were they unable to stay where they had been for the trip? Did she not feel like it?

Hmmmmm ...

As to the apology, I'm sure she apologized repeatedly and profusely to the flight crew and other passengers, right?

If anyone was on the flight and can shed some light, please leave a comment, thanks!

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