We travel with Stephen at least five times a year. Four of those times are on short-haul flights to Singapore, each flight lasting about 2 hours. At least once a year, we make the journey back to California and that trip usually takes around 20 hours. Luckily, we fly Singapore Airlines, which has a great inflight entertainment system with dedicated kids’ TV and radio channels that Stephen loves. And, the flight attendants are more than helpful and attentive.

As much as we love traveling on Singapore Airlines, though, they don’t have a Sky Nanny like Gulf Air. Each Sky Nanny is apparently trained in childcare and childhood education at Norland College. Check out what they do for you:

  • When you arrive at the airport, your Sky Nanny will be at the boarding gate to meet and escort your family onto the aircraft and take you to a dedicated seating area in the aircraft.
  • They?ll also organise drinks for children and do their meal service during the main bar service so you?re free to assist your children if necessary - without interrupting your own meal.
  • They?ll also find lots of things to keep your children occupied throughout the journey. We even have our own games we can loan them.
  • …a Sky Nanny will be keeping a watchful eye on your child should you doze off or just want to get engrossed in a book or a movie.

Maybe David Brooks of the New York Times should have considered hiring his own Sky Nanny. His family had trouble keeping it together on flights that were only four hours long.

…the pilots emerge to complain that because of the kids’ crying they can’t hear the air traffic controllers (this actually happened to my family).

Pointer to Sky Nanny from Asia Travel Blog, pointer to NY Times article from Blogging Baby.