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

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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?

actually i have always found easyjet very good when travelling with a child, we flew frequently when dd was under 2 and always took a pram, car seat ,and travel cot, we were never charged extra - so £25 really is not that bad.

Is it not just to cover the costs as some have said of boarding card etc?
Why should he travel for free?

I was charged £150.00 tax for DD when she was 4 months to fly to the US. I didn't understand how one can be taxed for something that apparently is zero?

Okay total fucking outrage was probably a leetle ott but this is aibu, after all

Okay, I hadn't thought of extra boarding pass etc
But nevertheless, it's not like I won't be charged the other stuff. Tax, excess baggage probably as we try and squeeze stuff for 3 into baggage allowance for 2.

As an aside, I paid £100 squids in baggage excess on our outgoing annual holiday on a cheap flight in the summer and since the flight was at 4 in the morning or some other such hideously ungodly time, we didn't have the strength to unpack anything so just went with it and left loads of stuff behind on the way home.

Hmm
How much does it get to after he's 2?

ok so not just cabin crew but for the ground staff as well - checking docs, etc.

Moaning about this kind of thing is the kind of we're-parents-we-deserve-to-be-treated-specially-without-any-extra-cost crap that that Times article rightly complained about.

flybe charge nothing extra for said privilage

yabu £25 both ways is hardly expensive, you can not expect something for nothing. after all they are transporting him from one location to another whether he has a seat or not

£25 is extremely cheap. I paid that over 15 years ago when DS1 was a baby and last year when we flew to the States with BA, DD was aged 19 months and we paid just over £500 for her 'seat' (on my lap) to include all the taxes.
Now THAT is FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS

Would they let you book a ticket & have a seat (plus luggage allowance) if you wanted?

depends on the airline, my DS 18months is the size of a small hippopotomus (sp!) and is having his own seat when we fly to SA in Jan.

Hmm, MrsJamin but I never park in P&T so am not comparable
I asked if I was being unreasonable.
Seems I was.
I now see the fuller picture -didn't think about the ground staff etc

Easyjet don't print out boarding cards - at least they haven't the last few times we flew with them - we had plastic reusable slips. And Diddl - depending on how arsey they are feeling, Easyjet will refuse boarding if you pitch up with an infant and you've paid for a seat for them. I still say fly BA - you might pay but you won't feel as if you are being shafted And the staff are polite

As said before 'cheap' flights will get you some other way. My folks booked BA in December to come back here from Spain, business class as they get bigger baggage allowance but the flight has been cancelled (BA cutbacks). They have had to rebook with Easyjet as they are the only other airline they could find that they can have prepaid excess baggage on and it has cost more than the original BA Business class ticket. Excess bags were £180

Fly BMI to NL, it iS cheaper and better than sleazyjet.

Just never use Ryanair

They are taking your ds from a to b so you should pay something for him. After 2 I think it's full fare isn't it? Our 50 min trips to Ireland are going to be extortionate

YANBU, but that's how it is. And once they turn two it's almost full price, ridiculous! I fly a lot and get outraged everytime, so rant away

I paid £180 or thereabouts for DD aged 5 months to fly to America. Funnily though, when she was 19 months, I paid similar for her to fly 'on my lap' to New York, but nothing at all for her to fly internally from NY to san francisco, which was about as far!

YANBU by the way. about £20 of my charge was ticket, the rest was insurances/tax.

Easyjet charged £20 each way for me to take my toddler to Spain with me in October. What you need to remember is they don't charge for large baby paraphenalia, such as travel cots and push chairs. I took my car seat and push chair (DS and I were going to co-sleep so didn't need travel cot). That was quite a bit of extra weight! Packing was fun with only a 20kg baggage allowance, but we managed! But yes dreading expensive it is going to be when DS turns 2. We are seriously thinking of driving next year to Spain - we go every year to see my Dad and the rest of my Spanish relatives.

YABU. They are a business not a philanthropic organisation. If you don't want to spend the money the answer is simple, don't fly.

Why do you expect your child should be able to fly free ?

YABU. They'll also provide your ds with a seat belt and if you need to change his nappy you'll be able to use the toilets.

I didn't mind the charge for my DSs when they were under two. By the time we had a buggy, travel cot and car seat, we got our moneys worth.

And my tip if struggling with baggage allowance - pack the centre of the travel cot, and take the buggy in a flight bag with extra stuff for 'padding'!

It riled me not being able to book a seat for DD on a £9 flight, but having to pay £25 for her to sit on my knee.

OK so children weigh a bit but me + DD would still weigh less than most adult passengers on their own.

Bring in the Skinny Minnies discount I say.

Bmi baby charge £40 for an infant, for a domestic fligth on my knee. On a couple of flights he has actually cost more than me!