02-22-2019
11:20 AM
02-22-2019
11:20 AM
@Scrappinginont wrote: You mention that you are a solo traveler. I don't believe that airlines allow more than one car seat to a set of 3 seats. At least, that was the case (for safety reasons) when my daughter was younger. The car seat had to be placed in the window seat. Personally, I chose to hold my daughter on my lap until she was 2 years old. This worked well for us. Once she was 2 I chose to bring her car seat on board for about 2 years. After that I checked the car seat. The reason this worked for us is that she was very comfortable in her car seat and travelled well in it. She didn't feel the need to get up and down or squirm away as she was used to her car seat and played/slept comfortably in it. One time when she was about 3 (we were travelling with a different airline that trip), we boarded at 10pm only 2 have a 2 hour delay on the tarmac as they fixed an issue with the plane. As it was past her bedtime, once I installed her car seat and buckled her in she promptly fell asleep. Our flight left at midnight and she slept the entire 5 hour flight too. She woke up as we were taxing to our arrival gate and asked when we were going to fly. 🙂 For us, using her carseat on the plane for ages 2-4 really worked well. One of the references that I found said "not to block" anyone, so having two car seats would be allowable if they were the window and middle seat, but not in the aisle with an adult sitting between. Or if you could show that the aisle car seat wasn't restrictive, maybe it would be allowed - I couldn't find anything from the FAA that was prescriptive like that, the wording was all in terms of performance. I also recommend the CARES harness as an easily transported alternative to the car seat on the plane: https://www.southwestaircommunity.com/t5/Family-Travel/CARES-harnesses/td-p/75683
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