Passengers with baby asked to move across the aisle
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- Aparna Patel
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- 25 Jul, 2023
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It’s impossible to say for certain without know the plane involved, but…
All commercial passenger aircraft must have at least one emergency oxygen mask for each passenger.
For the most part this is a simple calculation – 3 seats on each side of the aisle means 3 oxygen masks for each group of seats. However this obviously doesn’t take into account any passengers that do not have their own seats – such as lap babies!
In order to handle this, aircraft have additional masks available, but these may not be available at all seats. For many models of aircraft, all of the seats along one side of the plane will have an extra mask available, whilst those on the other side will not.
It sounds like on the plane you were on, the seats on the A-B-C side of the aircraft only had 3 masks, whilst those on the D-E-F side had 4. As a result, the passengers with the baby had to move to the side with the extra mask.
(Note that technically it’s not just the model – different airlines will order different configs, which can include things like this. So on one airline the extra masks might be on one side, on another airline on the other, and on a third airline they could have paid extra to have 4 masks on both sides!)
Credit:stackoverflow.com‘
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