Two travel influencers received mixed reactions from social media after they revealed they left their 10-year-old son in economy class and upgraded their seats to business class on a recent trip.
Karen and Sylvester Apkan took to their popular Instagram account to ask their supporters a simple question.
“Enjoying business class with my husband on a 13 hour flight while our 10 year old sits in the back in economy class because he doesn’t have United Premier 1K status like we do and didn’t get a complementary upgrade,” Karen wrote on her Instagram.
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She continued, “Sorry son. Let’s talk fam !! What would you do? Option 1, 2 or 3? And why? Does the flight time make a difference in your decision? Does the age of the child make a difference in your decision?”
Then she gave social media users three options to choose from: take the upgrade and leave your child, give your child the upgrade, or decline the upgrade and stay together as a family.
Social media users pointed out what they saw as the dangers to a child flying alone and called the Apkans bad parents and selfish.
“Imagine how alone he felt on a plane with a bunch of strangers around him. Imagine your parents did that to you. It’s either all of us or none of us. My hubs and I would rather stay with him in econo then leave him by himself to be potentially harmed,” wrote Star Stevens.
Another user wrote, “Y’all need parenting classes. The whole notion is wild. The other adults passengers on the plane are not your village in the event some catastrophe happens and you can’t get to your child. All because you want to relax in 1st class………..If you won’t upgrade, the child then pay for another adult to sit with him.”
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