Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Are you suggesting that they were?
I'm suggesting that it would've been a preferable option to sitting on a floor.
TUI operate with 5 cabin crew on a flight of this type, seated at 1L, 2L, 2R, 3R and 4L. That leaves spare crew seats at 3L & 4R - which is presumably where the parents would've sat during take-off & landing, so only the 1 parent would've been 'in the way' in the aft galley during a bar service. So the other parent was already seated in one of the mid-cabin jump seats, and clearly aware that there were 2 seats located there.
Depending where the child was sat (there is a spare seat in 41C in the photo), the parents may have elected to sit at the back of the aircraft where the seats were missing (41DEF) next to their child, who then sat on the floor with them, since this way they were 'out of the way' - rather than 2 of them sitting in the mid-cabin jump seats and one of the parents sitting on the floor in plain view of all passengers, or standing the whole flight with everyone looking at them....