---
title: "Airline Tells You Where Crying Babies Are so You Can Avoid Them"
description: "Japan Airlines has a new tool that will allow you to get as far away as possible from a crying baby on your next trip by airplane."
date: "2019-09-26"
modified: "2019-09-26"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/japanese-airline-crying-baby"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
tags:
  - "#airlines"
  - "airplanes"
  - "flying"
  - "the digest"
---

# Airline Tells You Where Crying Babies Are so You Can Avoid Them

![Japan Airlines has a new tool that will allow you to get as far away as possible from a crying baby on your next trip by airplane.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/japanese-airline-crying-babies.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Baby on Board

There's nothing worse than getting stuck next to a crying baby on board an airplane.

Fortunately, Japan Airlines has a [new tool](<https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/baby-seat-map-scli-intl/index.html>) that'll allow you to get as far away as possible from crying infants on your next flight. Children between the ages of 8 days and two years who are booked on your flight will show up as adorable baby icons on the seat selection map while booking on the airline's website [according to Japan Airlines](<https://www.jal.co.jp/en/dom/support/smilesupport/baby.html>) which, venture capitalist Rahat Ahmed pointed out on Twitter, will give other passengers a much-needed heads up.

https://twitter.com/dequinix/status/1176494097588084737

## No Guarantees

There are some limitations to the new feature. It only works when booking through Japan Airlines' website. Infants booked through other sites won't show up as infants. And once you've booked your flight, there's no guarantee that the parent of a crying infant won't snag a seat near you anyway.

As for the parents, they'll be treated to hot water bottles, rental strollers, as well as diaper changing facilities on board.

Galaxy-brain approach: suck it up or get a pair of noise-cancelling headphones. Babies don't know they're being annoying.

**READ MORE:** [Airline introduces baby seat map to allow passengers to avoid infants](<https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/baby-seat-map-scli-intl/index.html>) \[*CNN*\]

**More on airlines:** [*These Futuristic Airplane Seats Could Make Flying Economy Better*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/airplane-seats-prototype-layer-move>)

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

### Author social links  
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