Aer Lingus and car seats

[worldgonecrazy]

Has anyone ever taken a carseat as hold baggage on Aer Lingus? I need to know if they charge or not as I've found conflicting information from googling and I am too miserly to pay the 10p a minute charge for their helpline.

We checked ours in on a flight to Dublin from Amsterdam without charge - I was told it was included with the 40 euro fare for baby. However - I gather that usually that one-piece-free rule is to cover strollers, we didn't have one on that flight so I assume they just took the carseat as a stroller.

In 15 years of flying with them way too frequently I've found their rules depends on who you speak to on the day.

Thanks - it doesn't help that the only helpline is a telephone one, so you can't get written proof that "XXXX said it would be okay".

My daughter will be a 2 year old toddler, but I want to take our rear facing seat as I can't be guaranteed a rear facing seat by the car hire company.

I took ours, but it would have been smaller (maxi-cosi). There was no problem at all and in and out the third seat in the row was left empty for us (flight not full) and we were told we could put it there and the baby could sit in it, if it was strapped in.

If your seat is too big to fit in the overhead locker and the flight is full, I could see it being annoying, but don't think you'd run in to any charge - it would just be stowed in the hold I reckon. As Katiepoes said, I think this is covered by the 'one-piece' rule.