Custom Walker_nav_menu to add class to all items with children

Walker with parent recognition

  function start_el(&$output, $item, $depth, $args) {
		global $wp_query;
		$indent = ( $depth ) ? str_repeat( "\t", $depth ) : '';
		$has_children = get_posts(array('post_type' => 'nav_menu_item', 'meta_key' => '_menu_item_menu_item_parent', 'meta_value' => $item->ID)); /* Does the current item have any children? */

		$class_names = $value = '';

		$classes = empty( $item->classes ) ? array() : (array) $item->classes;

		$class_names = join( ' ', apply_filters( 'nav_menu_css_class', array_filter( $classes ), $item ) );
		$class_names = ' class="'. esc_attr( $class_names ) . '"';
		$class_names = $has_children ? rtrim($class_names, '"').' has-flyout"' : $class_names; /* If there are children, add the has-flyout class to the class= */

		$output .= $indent . '<li id="menu-item-'. $item->ID . '"' . $value . $class_names .'>';

		$attributes  = ! empty( $item->attr_title ) ? ' title="'  . esc_attr( $item->attr_title ) .'"' : '';
		$attributes .= ! empty( $item->target )     ? ' target="' . esc_attr( $item->target     ) .'"' : '';
		$attributes .= ! empty( $item->xfn )        ? ' rel="'    . esc_attr( $item->xfn        ) .'"' : '';
		$attributes .= ! empty( $item->url )        ? ' href="'   . esc_attr( $item->url        ) .'"' : '';

		$prepend = '<strong>';
		$append = '</strong>';
		$description  = ! empty( $item->description ) ? '<span>'.esc_attr( $item->description ).'</span>' : '';

		if($depth != 0)
		{
		         $description = $append = $prepend = "";
		}

		$item_output = $args->before;
		$item_output .= '<a'. $attributes .'>';
		$item_output .= $args->link_before .$prepend.apply_filters( 'the_title', $item->title, $item->ID ).$append;
		$item_output .= $description.$args->link_after;
		$item_output .= '</a>';
		$item_output .= $args->after;

		$output .= apply_filters( 'walker_nav_menu_start_el', $item_output, $item, $depth, $args );
	}