to be outraged at being charged £25 quid for the privilege of flying with my nearly 2 year old on my KNEE?

[itshouldntbethishard]

Am looking into flying to visit mates in the NL
So go to Queasyjet Sleazyjet Low Cost airline dot com and tick the box 2 adults 1 infant Under 2 y/o
at which point a box pops up saying that kids under two must travel on my lap and that newborns must be 14 days old minimum.
So far so meh

So I start choosing the times of the flights and the prices start adding up and I see there is a £12.50 charge each way for my infant.

Sorry this has probably been done before as DS is PFB but I am just totally fucking disgusted that they're asking for this.

AIBU?

That's before you get charged obscene amounts of money for luggage, for checking in, for checking out, for having a pee. YANBU -fly BA

They will add tax onto that too. Oh, and no baggage allowance. I agree, it is a rip off.

BA charge even more for an under 2

iirc it was about £70 to fly 7wk old dd to Egypt on my lap.

it was free in the good ole days

sounds cheap to me

YABU, having a child with you will be more work for the cabin crew - why should your child travel completely free?

how is it more work? they are on the airplane, its not like they would be nipping outside for a crafty fag but for having to administer hot towels to a baby.

It is annoying as they get no seat & no luggage allowance, so what is it for?

That said, 25GBP isn´t a huge amount.

I don't think your child should travel free either.

If you have 200 people on a plane and each took a child then that would mean additional weight/additional fuel etc. Of course there should be a charge for the child as well.

That being said, none of these "cheap" airlines are actually cheap - they just charge by stealth.

MrsJamin, in my experience the crew on easyjet don't actually do any work unless you pay extra for it on the flight e.g. for drinks or snacks. There is no 'service' as such on easyjet - hence no extra work.

a child under 2 probably weighs no more than 2 stone tops. should folk over 2 stone overweight also be charged?

You PFB is not the P that he should travel for free!!
Get over yourself!!

but it used to be free [whines]

Are there any airlines that don't charge for children under 2?

BA (as all long haul carieris) charge 10% of adult fare & taxes for long haul for children under two - with the added bonus of them sitting on your lap with a small baggage allowance (10Kgs)!!

"but it used to be free [whines]"

ah yes but that was before people started taking advantage and borrowing 2 yr olds to sit on their knee during flights to get one over on the airlines.

nope

all will charge a nominal fee just to cover cost of the admin eg booking, issuing them a ticket and boarding card, getting their passport checked etc. and then add tax on top

withagoat is quite right, save your 'total fucking disgust' for something more worthwhile

pmsl @ mrsbadger

ah sorry, madamecastafiore was quite right

not withagoat, she was the whining one [slap]

How is it more work for the cabin crew? Don't understand that argument.

not mroe work for the cabin crew but for the admin and ground staff

one more passenger name / ticket / boarding card / passport

Libra - borrowig 2yo's??

The 2yo is levied the same tax as an adult and there will be an additional wheeze (courtesy of BA) to pay extra to sit together as a family or have bulk head seats ...

But they are a passenger, regardless of where they sit . £25 doesn't sound too bad to me.

I travelled to Spain with Ryanair. They charged DS bloody £20 each way, mine and DH's ticket was only £10 each way. Plus you are NOT allowed to buy under 2's a seat. So DS cost the same amount as 2 adults to sit on my lap. Fecking ridiculous IMO

Or get the train - there they do go for free I think. The Thalys trains are lovely !