More from CafeMom: Let’s Be Clear, This Woman Isn’t a B*tch for Nagging — She’s a Fed-Up Mom Frequent flyers have been campaigning for child-free flights for a while now but no airline seems keen to institute these rules. The Daily Mail spoke with former Virgin Atlantic director Paul Charles, who explained that prohibiting kids from flights sets a bad precedent for discrimination. “It would be a bad decision by an airline to ban children,” he said. “Once you did, would you start banning other types of traveler? It would be a mistake.”