Easyjet and BMIBaby - anyone know if you can take a buggy/carseat/cot on for free?

[JoshandJamie]

Hi

I am trying to find out whether or not you can take a buggy or carseat or travel cot onto an Easyjet or BMIBaby flight free of charge or whether they count as part of your baggage allowance. I have searched their websites and all i can find is that EasyJet will let you take a carseat on board if you use it during the flight.

But there is nothing about buggies or cots. Anyone travelled with them recently and know the answer?

Thanks

I asked BMI yesterday about a car seat and they said it was up to the check in desk whether to charge you the £15.
When i went last year though i checked in the car seat and took the buggy to the gate and got charged nothing....

I guess you may just need to smile nicely!

Not sure abotu BMI but Easyjet will let you take one free item of baby luggage per baby. So that can be a buggy or a carseat, whatever you prefer. You can't normally take them onto the plane though, you have to leave them at the entrance and they are loaded in the load and (sometimes) unloaded as you disembark.

Any extra baby items have to be checked as hold luggage. When I've travelled I've always taken the buggy as my free item and checked the car seat as it is so much lighter (about 3kg I think).

I thought easyjet DIDN'T allow you to take a car seat on board at all as it won't fit in th e overhead locker and the baby doesn't have a seat of his/her own...? Maybe I am thinking of Ryanair.

Thanks for that info. Anyone else have any experiences?

we're flying with bmi and got charged £5 each each way to take a blooming suitcase!

keep your buggy with you and they get you to fold it at top of queue before boarding and you worry all the way there have they put it on flight!?! or at botton of steps onto plane easyjet this is by the way and you have to keep baby on your lap with orange seat belt thingy and then when they turn 2 they have to sit on their own chair that is when the fun really begins. lots of songs and bribery works well "oh we are flyi8ng in a aeroplane looking out the window " works well.

car seat just book in at excess luggage part. never been charged. What i do is leave a car seat at parents home save all the hassel. good luck

I didn't even consider that they would charge me and luckily they didn't! flew with bmi baby in sept and took buggy no probs flew with jet2 over xmas and had massive carseat but again no probs and we were definately up to our luggage allowance without the carseat. Hopefully they will accomodate, maybe phonecall would be more helpful than website. Good luck

I've tried calling both. One one you get put into a loop system where you never actually speak to anyone and the only info on kids doesn't cover the stuff I want to know and the other one I got through to a person who I believe actually lives on Mars - they sounded that far away and was about as coherent as a Martian, and then they cut me off. And I got to pay £1 a minute for the priviledge.

I'm not actually flying with either of these two, am just trying to do some research into what airlines charge for different bits of luggage. And these two are completely elusive about whether buggies, cots and carseats are free or not.

Always taken a buggy without charge onto Easyjet