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A businessman is suing British Airways over a policy that bans male passengers from sitting next to children they don't know - even if the child's parents are on the same flight.
Mirko Fischer has accused the airline of branding all men as potential sex offenders and says innocent travellers are being publicly humiliated.
In line with the policy, BA cabin crew patrol the aisles before take-off checking that youngsters travelling on their own or in a different row from their parents are not next to a male stranger.
If they find a man next to a child or teenager they will ask him to move to a different seat. The aircraft will not take off unless the passenger obeys.


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Mayby this is the beginning of the resistance.

After recent cases where females have been convicted of child abuse you'd think they'd reconsider only branding males. But then they'd have to have empty seats next to children, and that would mean losing more money.

All this extreme paranoia is bound to backfire in various ways eventually. Unfortunately, it will be the next generation, the one's these measures are supposed to be protecting, who suffer the main consequences.

Even if the person was a paedophile what do they think could happen on a flight with probably over 100 other people on it.

Surely this should be up to the discretion of the parents to decide where their children will sit on a flight, and also don't BA know that most child sex offences are carried out by people that are known to the child, not complete strangers.

With full body scanners creating child porn - surely the answer is to BAN ANYONE UNDER 18 travelling on a plane. This would save all these problems. In fact lock up all Under 18s behind closed doors and electric fences and only allow adults to contact them via GLASS WALLS so that nothing inappropriate can happen.

After all everyone is a PAEDO in New Labour's new world order ( or a terrorist )

great !

manipulate this cleverly and you could get yourself upgraded for free !

Has there ever been a report of a male paedophile touching up a child on an aeroplane flight? No, I didn't think there had been (at least, no incidents that got reported). Too many fellow passengers around to see what he was doing if he did. It just doesn't happen.

It used to happen in cinemas when I was a youngster in the 1950's and boys used to stand outside cinemas when the film had an "A" certificate (children not allowed in unless accompanied by an adult) and ask a man going in to take them in with him. I did that many times and only on one occasion did a man grope me and push his hand in my pants. That was in 1959, when I was 12 years old. But cinemas in those days were dark, anonymous places and those kind of things could happen...although I never heard of it happening to anyone else. I didn't tell anyone about it because I knew that if my dad had found out, he would have gone up in the air with me and stopped me going to the pictures for good. I didn't want that to happen, so I kept quiet about it at the time. But anything like that happening on a jet aircraft flight? I don't think so.

The argument they usually come out with, as they tried with authors visiting schools, is to say that the child might get to know the adult and that could lead to something happening at a later date.

It's nonsense of course.

Sitting next to somebody on an aircraft is no different to sitting next to somebody on a train or a bus. Your mind is too much on where you are going and what you'll be doing once you get there, especially on the longer journeys. Once you disembark you go your own separate ways. It's how it's always been.

DR2 wrote:
Has there ever been a report of a male paedophile touching up a child on an aeroplane flight? No, I didn't think there had been (at least, no incidents that got reported). Too many fellow passengers around to see what he was doing if he did. It just doesn't happen.

It used to happen in cinemas when I was a youngster in the 1950's and boys used to stand outside cinemas when the film had an "A" certificate (children not allowed in unless accompanied by an adult) and ask a man going in to take them in with him. I did that many times and only on one occasion did a man grope me and push his hand in my pants. That was in 1959, when I was 12 years old. But cinemas in those days were dark, anonymous places and those kind of things could happen...although I never heard of it happening to anyone else. I didn't tell anyone about it because I knew that if my dad had found out, he would have gone up in the air with me and stopped me going to the pictures for good. I didn't want that to happen, so I kept quiet about it at the time. But anything like that happening on a jet aircraft flight? I don't think so.

did he buy you an icecream as well ??

actually I have been groped on an aeroplane and it was a well known "child advocate" who got as pissed as rat and began to try to kiss me and grabbed my crutch. I got myself moved to business class when I complained..(BA) the trolley dollys at first said no until I said 'good-you can deal with the scandal then when I sue you"..I should have demanded first class and I should have had her arrested at the airport.

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did he buy you an icecream as well ??
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No, but in the foyer, he did pay for both of us to go up into the circle and bought me a copy of that month's ABC Film Review magazine and a bag of caramels, as well as giving me five shillings for some pocket money (which is probably equivelent to £5 in today's money), as he was taking me up into a secluded circle on a Wednesday afternoon. "Cor! Thanks a lot, mister!", I exclaimed. "Don't mention it.", he said. "We're friends, aren't we? I like helping out a friend." Seems like he was trying to get into my good books for later on, when the lights had gone down and the film had started. But he wasn't the worse for drink, like that person who was sat beside you on the plane. He was sober as a judge and knew exactly what he was doing. Usually, a drunken person loses their inhibitions and does things that normally, they would only fantasise about. Seems that's what happened in your case. Drunkeness would be no defence for their actions in a court of law, though.