Do kids and first class mix?

by Karla Cripps

For the last few years, I've been traveling between Bangkok and western Canada once, sometimes twice a year with my four- and five-year-old sons. 

Despite all that sky-high experience, I still fear holidays more than the dentist.

Seventeen hours of cramped conditions, multiple airport transfers and little-to-no sleep, occasionally getting my face smashed in by a reclining seat as I bend down to pick up yet another piece of Lego that has fallen on the floor. 

Enough is enough. Risking the wrath of the hot-tempered travel elite, I broke the unofficial rule of air travel. Never bring kids under the age of 10 into the front end of the aircraft.

Upgrade certificates in hand, for the Vancouver-Tokyo leg of our journey back to Bangkok I decided to test whether Air Canada's executive first class is soothing enough even for kids with the energy levels of Peewee Herman on speed.

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