To ask if anyone has flown Norwegian airlines with a pushchair

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Posting here for traffic - flying tomorrow with Norwegian airlines. First time flying with a baby, have had zero time to prepare. Taking a travel pushchair that folds down. So confused about the baggage rules.

It seems that you can’t take it on as hand baggage (slightly over the size restrictions when folded). It has to go in the hold but the airline say it has to go into a hard protective case. Aside from the fact we don’t have a protective case we would then have to carry that around the airport with us along with a 1yo & pushchair and everything else? Or am I missing something.

Has anyone flown Norwegian airlines with a pushchair before? Do they enforce this protective case rule or do you think they will allow the pushchair on as it does fold down very small and is only 8kg.

We’ve flown with Norwegian with an excess item that wasn’t a pushchair. The answer closest to the truth is that it will depend on the staff you encounter: some will flex, some won’t, so don’t rely on them either waving it through as hand luggage or accepting it without a case. Can you find some sort of duffel bag it would fit into? The protective case guidance is because they won’t guarantee that the baggage handlers at each airport will agree to load it without one, and that if they do that it isn’t going to get chucked around by handlers and squashed underneath other luggage in the hold, and they’re within their rights to refuse to carry an item they can’t assure will arrive in one piece or which the handlers will just refuse to handle.

I have sent pushchairs with Norwegian as hold luggage, both in a PramPack (which Norwegian accept as a hard case) and umberella type strollers in a simple holdall type pram bag. Never had a problem getting either accepted as hold luggage but had the pushchair not in the hard case been damaged then Norwegian would have just said "tough shit" as it wasn't packed according to their regulations.

Thank you that is helpful, I think we’re going to have to just use the soft travel case it came with and pad it out as best we can. There really doesn’t seem to be an easy answer to travelling with a pushchair!