The bar staff in the airport should be refusing service and the gate staff in the airport should be refusing boarding. But both of those roles are usually paid little more than minimum wage and so they, understandably, take the path of least resistance and do nothing.
I wouldn't blame the bar staff in airports, because it's nothing uncommon to see people buying and drinking booze directly from duty free too. But the gate staff should be empowered to breathalyse passengers and deny them boarding if they're clearly far too drunk to be flying. I did see it once, but only because the idiot drew attention to himself by making a rather sexist and chauvinistic comment to the lady at the gate, who turned round and told him to sit down and he would be called last. He obviously started ranting, and that was enough to deny him boarding.
Flight attendants have a harder job than most people give them credit for.
I think it's a surprisingly difficult job, especially on flights known to attract drinkers.
My experience is very much that airport security and cabin crew are delighted to engage with toddlers.
Oh they definitely are. One member of the gate staff in Podgorica took my 3 year old for a walk around the airport when the flight was delayed, even taking him outside to the apron to look to ese if the flight was coming or not. Even now, as he's got a flight log, he's quite routinely invited to come up to the cockpit after landing to have a chat with the pilots. Last time in Edinburgh, the plane was at the end of the day and the captain stayed chatting with him for ages and explaining all sorts of things.
Airport security are almost always fantastic as well. Last month in Valencia, he had some strange looking things in his backpack (shells, stones, wires (!)) and it must have looked incredibly suspicious on the scanner. The bloke at security took him gently aside to inspect his backpack, but the whole thing was done in such a professional and polite way. I didn't even need to be there with him, they had a chat about what he'd stashed in his backpack and left with a high five.
It's the same with flight attendants: they will always have a chat with him about anything and everything. I remember last time we were on the Ryanair Max-8, he went off to the toilets at the rear, and when he didn't come back after 20 minutes, we found him chatting away to the flight attendants. Not a clue what he was doing there, but I can't say I've seen a single negative reaction towards him from flight attendants. On the other hand, I cannot understand people who fly with kids without having things to entertain them. When my son was a toddler, we always had a bag full of stuff to entertain him with, because planes are quite boring for the average 2 year old!
and baby centric is at an awkward age (19/20 months, walking/running/climbing/counting, can verbalise stuff a bit idk maybe 100 words vocabulary but at same time you're not going to carry out a reasoned 1 on 1 conversation with her)
My son's first words were variations on the word "bam". You can imagine the fun it was when flying with him at 18 months and he somehow got it in his head to say "plane bam" a lot
