TikTok influencer slammed for 'unsafe' baby hack on aeroplane: 'Is that even legal?'

A TikTok mum-fluencer is under fire after sharing a controversial hack for travelling with a baby on board. Lisa Flom took to the app recently to show her nearly 1 million followers the plane seating hack she wished she knew as a first-time mum.

The video, which has since been viewed over 20 million times, sees Flom applying velcro strips to both the plane seat and the bottom of her baby, before placing the child on the seat and demonstrating his inability to move once secured. While parenting and baby recommendations are typical of Flom’s social media content, the plane hack was not received as well by her followers.

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Baby plane hack under fire online

“Kid would be safer in a car seat,” a mum-of-four commented under the video.

“I felt so bad for him,” another follower wrote.

“This looks like something that’d work at first till the kid gets frustrated,”a third commenter chimed in.

“Is that even legal?,” another questioned.

Other followers, however, were less concerned for the child’s safety and more for the potential stickiness left on the seat from the strips’ adhesive – despite Flom also filming the removal of the velcro to show the lack of residue left behind.

“Do you pay the airline to get the residue off the seat or do you scrub them yourself?,” one commenter asked.

“So after you pull it off, the next passenger has to sit in the sticky tape residue?,” another queried.

“The tape would ruin the seat,” a third follower wrote.

Laws require approved child restraint systems

In both Australia and the U.S., where From resides, laws state that child restraint systems must be certified and approved by the relevant airline. It is also typically recommended to use a forward-facing child seat, such as those used in cars, when travelling by air with a baby under two years of age. However, From did not disclose whether the velcro strips were approved or not.

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Despite the controversy of the post, it still received more than 700,000 likes and 4000 comments, including those from followers praising the plane hack.

“Genius,” one follower wrote in the comments.

“This is so creative,” another gushed.

“That is one of the most awesome things I’ve seen in a while,” a third said. “Smart.”

There were also some commenters who made comical comparisons to a scene in The Goofy Movie where velcro is used in a similar way to restrain a restless child having their picture taken at a photo studio.

Flom has not responded to the criticism thus far.

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