Its a perfectly reasonable request to ask someone to turn off a white noise generator. It's also perfectly reasonable to explain that there's a choice between the white noise generator or a crying baby, and let the people in the area choose. What makes life so much easier is when parents pack a supply of ear plugs. These can be distributed to fellow passengers.

Wouldn't the sound of the plane engine drown out the sound machine? Wouldn't the engine be enough of a sound machine? Planes are not quiet, serene, utopias. I'm not sure why people think a plane should be. I'd rather hear a baby crying than whiny, crabby adults making the atmosphere tense.

I recently went on holiday and had a teeny tiny baby sat next to me, one behind me and a small child on the other side. Flight started off bad as the dad accidently dropped a bottle of water on my head putting the luggage up, the mum was terrified of flying and they just looked panicked. I had my headphones on but wasn't fussed and after reading a load of c**p on here on how parents are just reassured them. 'Hey if you need to get past me just tap me on the shoulder, if i'm asleep just shake me, it's not a problem. And if my snoring wakes up little un wake me up ' :-) they looked a bit relieved and told me it was her first flight and they were hoping she would sleep through it all. I said hey if she wakes up crying it's no problem, it's what babies do. Funnily enough she did sleep through most of the flight, the lil un behind me though burst into tears and screams. I just turned round and pulled faces to amuse myself and show the parents I at least wasn't fussed by it :-)

Between pressure changes and the unfamiliar environment, plane flights can be frightening and painful for babies. If the noise of other people bothers you, bring earbuds on your flight. But don't make unreasonable requests, because sometimes babies just cry and you have to wait it out while comforting them.

I don't understand people's continuing lack of awareness that they are not alone in the world. I have neighbors that blast music every night. It's like they have no awareness that doing that is crazy rude. And it's because they live in this selfish world where everything revolves around them. The machine was clearly loud enough and on long enough for a passenger aisles away to complain. And what if that machine was disturbing another baby? Does your baby take precedence over mine? Her outrage over the fact that other people didn't immediately bend to her wishes- because other people weren't even a consideration- is the bigger problem I have. You aren't alone in the world. It isn't just about you and your problems. If a noise machine will help get your baby to be quiet within a few minutes... great. I'd rather deal with that for 10 minutes than crying the whole flight. But if it wasn't working then now we have that and a crying baby.

Well, this is just another reason why you should have child-free flights or separate cabin spaces for children.

Bitches gotta b***h, I guess. Nothing wrong with a sound machine on a long flight. Hell, I'd welcome it so I could nap too! Much better than a crying baby, or a whiny Karen/Ken, someone hacking/blowing their nose, etc.

I'm pretty sure that if they were putting the sound machine right next to the baby's ear, it was NOT turned up loud enough for other people to hear it over the other twenty screaming children in the airplane cabin.

I would rather hear a sound machine than a crying baby.

Sorry, but my sympathy is with the other passengers. Just because you have a new baby - and let's be fair and accept that you're the only woman EVER to have given birth - does not entitle you to make life unpleasant for those around you. Why not get the holy child some headphones? Why not drive? Do you think you're entitled to special treatment because you're a "celebrity" - I mean actually I've never heard of you, but then I don't watch much TV, most of it's reality drivel...anyway, back to this screaming child. Why have you allowed yourself to be dictated to by a child? Thousands of babies go to sleep without these ridiculous aids. It's because you've conditioned her to sleep only when that device is on. Stop using it and she'll soon learn to sleep without it. But most of all STOP BEING ENTITLED! Thank you.

Stop whingeing, bayitch!

Reading this is, well there's a few minutes of my life I'll never get back.

I have no idea who this person is, why I should care, or why BP keeps publishing these celebrity articles no one cares about.

She has MILLIONS of dollars, why wouldn't she take a private plane if she was so worried?

Entitled "celebrities" much?