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?

sorry are you seriously complaining that it will cost you 25pound return for your childs flight?

we are a skinny family ,can we be allowed to make the excess weight up in our suitcases to balance out the excess weight of a heavier family. Wouldnt that be an incentive to loose weight. Plus the fact i cant use 2 hands to eat my food when there is a large person next to me. They overflow into my space. Sorry to be contraversial

Um, I can understand why airlines are making a charge (although we found last summer than Lufthansa had charged the right amount for the way out and then charged us 10% of the entire family's ticket costs for DS3 on the way back (NB not 10% of one ticket, but 10% of all our tickets added up), which made no sense at all and was clearly a particularly daft error, but one which took me £10 in overseas telephone calls to sort out. However I fail to understand how they can justify charging infants EXTRA to not have a seat, and I also am puzzled as to why infants are discriminated against by not being allowed check in luggage allowances and so on even though they have paid extra. There really doesn't seem to be any logic there at all. Just discrimination.

A further couple of things that puzzle me. One is the question of infant car seats that are approved for airline use. Presumably some airlines are effectively prohibiting their use, if it is not possible to buy a seat for an infant. Is that actually legal in terms of Civil Aviation Authority regulations?

Secondly, CAA regulations specify that families must be seated together on a plane (unless they are an unaccompanied minor). This is not because the CAA wants to be nice, it's to help in the event of an evacuation, so is therefore for the benefit of all passengers. I wonder whether charging families for this (which is effectively both their responsibility and their right) is therefore actually permissible under the regulations as well. It sounds like sharp practice (a minimum would probably be allowing one parent and one child to be allocated seats together at no cost).

When I set up BoffinAir I will sell a special baby service where people get treated like human being and don't have to fret. It will make money whilst being humane. That's what I call business.

sorry to slightly change the thread ,but that naffs me off too when some peolpe are 25kgs bigger than me....mebee they have eaten a suitcase

That's me your're talking about, alypaly. It's me glands.

Wow, I've flown 8x (rountrip) w/ under 2yo child in last 9 years, and never did they fly free!

4yo DD had to wee on a blanket last time due 2 turbulence .

do you want to sit on my lap and lean over and eat my dinner too.I always ask for a window seat then i can turn sideways

Thin people are just extra seat padding to me.

Or snacks.

Ok. Stop adding up what the baggage/child on knee/tax etc all costs.

Look at the bottom line.

What is the flight costing for the whole family?

And what would be the price flying with BA?

THAT is the important bit.

I can fly with the whole family to see my parents in UK for the price of just one adult ticket 18 years ago when I first moved abroad.

Thanks to low cost airlines like EasyJet and Ryanair.

sounds cheap to me too. We got charged 10% of the air ticket price for DS to get to Oz when he was under 2, but 90% of the tax! So his ticket was about £300. No seat, but he had the bassinet. No hold luggage allowance either, iirc.

"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."

Ha ha ha ha!

Ryanair are the worst! Me and DS1 (4) could fly from Birmingham to Derry for 99p each(plus loads of extras) but DS2 (not quite 2 so not entitled to his own seat) ticket would cost £25 each way. How does that make sense?!

Well, tbh I think YABU to expect anything better from a low cost airline.

I agree with Mme Lindt.

YABU.

Children should get to fly for free ONLY if it's agreed that said children will be jettisoned the moment they start screaming and/or bothering the other passengers.

Actually, we should jettison bothersome adults too, but they should never get to fly for free.

sounds really cheap to me so yabu

also maybe imvho "totally fucking disgusting" is a bit over the top, but there again I've had a long day

itshouldntbethishard,
check out all your options. I know Ryanair have a special on atm for travel after Dec14. Then again this may not apply to your 2yo.

Between ryanair (who fly to eindhoven), easyjet (who fly to amsterdam), and transavia (basiqair; who fly to rotterdam), plus the likes of BA, KLM etc, you should be able to find a solution that's both cheap and cheerful.

If not there's also the eurotunnel (if you've got a car), or the eurostar (if you haven't).

Or ask your friends to come and visit you in stead