Question- Plane Travel with Children

A question for all of you flyers out there with children. We're
planning on taking a trip with our 2 year old and she'll be on our
lap- the problem is that she'll be 26 months, so technically the
airline should charge us for an extra ticket. Will they actually
check and enforce this rule?

"Moo" wrote in message
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A question for all of you flyers out there with children. We're
planning on taking a trip with our 2 year old and she'll be on our
lap- the problem is that she'll be 26 months, so technically the
airline should charge us for an extra ticket. Will they actually
check and enforce this rule?

What a strange question! The simple answer is "yes". Do you sit your
daughter on someone's lap when out in your car or do you try to ensure
her safety by placing her in a proper child car seat?

JohnT

On 3 Oct 2003 12:35:51 -0700, Moo wrote:
A question for all of you flyers out there with children. We're
planning on taking a trip with our 2 year old and she'll be on our
lap- the problem is that she'll be 26 months, so technically the
airline should charge us for an extra ticket. Will they actually
check and enforce this rule?

So what, exactly, are you going to do if you hit unexpected
turbulence, and your daughter's head hits the wall or
the floor at high speed? Or, even worse, hits another
passenger?

I can't, for the life of me, imagine why parents do this.
Heck, if nothing else, and a few hundred bucks
really isn't more important than your child, it's been our
experience that having the kids in the car seats that they're
accustomed to makes them FAR more comfortable, and happy.

Troll.

"Moo" wrote in message
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A question for all of you flyers out there with children. We're
planning on taking a trip with our 2 year old and she'll be on our
lap- the problem is that she'll be 26 months, so technically the
airline should charge us for an extra ticket. Will they actually
check and enforce this rule?

Moo writes
A question for all of you flyers out there with children. We're
planning on taking a trip with our 2 year old and she'll be on our
lap- the problem is that she'll be 26 months, so technically the
airline should charge us for an extra ticket. Will they actually
check and enforce this rule?

For everyone's comfort and safety, it's best that someone as big and
heavy as a two year old has their own seat.
--
Simon Elliott
http://www.ctsn.co.uk/

user writes
On 3 Oct 2003 12:35:51 -0700, Moo wrote:
A question for all of you flyers out there with children. We're
planning on taking a trip with our 2 year old and she'll be on our
lap- the problem is that she'll be 26 months, so technically the
airline should charge us for an extra ticket. Will they actually
check and enforce this rule?

So what, exactly, are you going to do if you hit unexpected
turbulence, and your daughter's head hits the wall or
the floor at high speed? Or, even worse, hits another
passenger?

Depends where the OP is posting from. Most European airlines provide
(and insist on the use of) seat belt attachments so that your child is
secured to you. Therefore there's no danger of your child becoming a
projectile. I gather from this newsgroup that some US airlines don't
follow this practice.

I can't, for the life of me, imagine why parents do this.
Heck, if nothing else, and a few hundred bucks
really isn't more important than your child, it's been our
experience that having the kids in the car seats that they're
accustomed to makes them FAR more comfortable, and happy.

It turns out that neither of the two larger car seats we own are really
suitable for air travel. One is a large and heavy frame seat, which is
CAA approved and fits OK, but is so large that it doesn't allow the
passenger in front to recline. The other is non frame based, hence not
CAA approved and hence quite rightly no airline will let us use it.

Air travel with a Western commercial airline is so safe that the only
safety issue worth worrying about IMHO is turbulence. The seat belt
attachment takes care of that risk nicely. (As long as the parent uses
it and keeps their own seat belt fastened!)

But as I mentioned in a previous post, a 26 month old is likely too big
for anyone's comfort and IMHO needs a separate seat.

--
Simon Elliott
http://www.ctsn.co.uk/

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 20:35:51 +0100, Moo wrote
(in message ) :

A question for all of you flyers out there with children.

Warning, Moo...this is the most children-unfriendly group you could ever
imagine, so asking anything to do with clidren will likely provoke angry
replies. In fact, simply typing the letter c-h-i-l-d might give a heart
attack to some readers here...so proceed with caution!

"pghc" wrote in message
al.NET...
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 20:35:51 +0100, Moo wrote
(in message ) :

A question for all of you flyers out there with children.

Warning, Moo...this is the most children-unfriendly group you could
ever
imagine, so asking anything to do with clidren will likely provoke
angry
replies. In fact, simply typing the letter c-h-i-l-d might give a
heart
attack to some readers here...so proceed with caution!


Whatever happened to Paul Tauger? Did he become a parent and stop
posting here?

JohnT

JohnT wrote:

Whatever happened to Paul Tauger? Did he become a parent and stop
posting here?

Unless I am very much mistaken, he's still here!

"JohnT" wrote in message
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"pghc" wrote in message
al.NET...
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 20:35:51 +0100, Moo wrote
(in message ) :

A question for all of you flyers out there with children.

Warning, Moo...this is the most children-unfriendly group you could
ever
imagine, so asking anything to do with clidren will likely provoke
angry
replies. In fact, simply typing the letter c-h-i-l-d might give a
heart
attack to some readers here...so proceed with caution!


Whatever happened to Paul Tauger? Did he become a parent and stop
posting here?

JohnT

I'm still here. I just changed my screen name. PTRAVEL= Paul Tauger.
However, the OP in this thread is clearly a troll (A post about a 26-month
old lap child by someone named "Moo"?), and I try to avoid responding to
trolls.