It's completely ignorant of you to assume it WASN'T a parenting problem.

Hm, I would really like to hear XJet's side of it... From the crew mind you, not a beaurocrat. Every time my wife and infant son have flown on XJet the ENTIRE crew has been nothing short of extraordinarily courteous and accomadating. From the pilots to the gate agents, every XJet employee she came in contact with helped her with our baby (She was travelling alone every time). But who knows, maybe the FA was just having a bad day and said some really stupid things and made some stupid decisions... Or maybe she just had a terrible hangover from trying to drink SAAB pretty ;)

I think your going to see more of this. The FA's I talked to at Eagle are being overworked, underpaid. Most seem to be just burnt out. That includes some pilots too:o The Junior mann those girls all the time. I can see how after maybe after a 14 hour duty day, the last thing she wants to hear is some little kid talking while she is trying to give a safety demo. She might have just snapped and that was it.

I agree, It sounds like the FA might have had a power trip. We only heard half the story though

Maybe I should have tried this when we were in the sim together!

Vee one....rotate....rotate...rotate...for the love of God-
CRASH!

I just watched a video on AOL about it and they said the other passengers claimed that the mom never made a threat against the FA. I think the FA had a power trip.

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/plane-b...12092209990001

Another explanation
 

How do they know he wasn't a midget captain who had just turned 60? :p

I'm leaning in favor of the Parent on this one...I've met a few F/A's (inc. one particularly nasty F/A on XJet) who were super-rude to her Pax.

BUT. Saab also has a point - If I acted out or wouldn't shut-up as a kid, my parents held no reservations in shutting me up - forcefully if required LoL. I see kids in the terminals and aircraft getting away with murder. The mother in this case may have been the "victim," but she sure as hell wasn't "right."

well since I am on leave from said airline our F.A.'s can be pretty...........tough. I hope the actions of one FA doesn't mess it up for everyone. Who knows? maybe mommy did threaten the FA, pax tend to back each other up. I know one fool that when I worked ramp broke a cabin bin door then thought it was funny and laughed about it, he got other pax to laugh about it too, till I told him we would be charging to him the cost to fix the door and the flight delay, he turned beat red and I made sure his record was documented.......wonder how he made out??

Needless to say he shut up after that and his pax friends turned on him, what a clown.