This seems like another example of the airline industry’s process of enshitification or premiumisation as it’s called in business. Make your core service shittier and provide endless charges and fees for upgrades or enhancements, some of which were previously bundled with the core service.
I’m not a father but something about this rubs me the wrong way and feels anti-social.
Since it's an airline flying between the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean, I doubt there's a big demand for the "business" seating at the front of the plane. All they've done is rebrand it.
How's the core service any shittier with this than without?
It's a fact that there are numerous people who, for whatever reason, don't take care of their kids while on a flight. That's already a nuisance right now, even though there's no kid-free zone.
Since it's impractical to ban "bad parents" from a flight, they chose to ban kids altogether. This is why we can't have nice things. But "this" are the bad parents, not the companies trying to make a buck. Although I doubt that if everyone was a "good parent", they wouldn't look for some other way to nickel and dime us.
Who chooses to go in the "not quiet" coach? And is the quiet one actually quiet? Here in France, trains are nominally "call-free" zones, you have to use your phone on the platforms. In practice, nobody does that, and it's not particularly enforced.
I’m not a father but something about this rubs me the wrong way and feels anti-social.