Flying with baby milk/food

[mummyincharge]

Hi flying with BA to south of france in May, what are the regulations now with formula and food, anyone flown recently. I don't have a clue what I can take on board, I know it's only a short flight but you can guarantee he will want a feed while in mid flight. Thanks

Hi Mummyincharge, I'd recommend checking out the website of the airport you are flying from on both legs of the journey e.g.
I travel a lot but not with infants. I haven't seen parents being asked to taste milk and food for a while, but don't know if that's because I just haven't gone through security at the same time iyswim. Also, there now seems to be some slight differences between airports (no evidence based on baby food but e.g. some airports make you take your laptop out of your hand luggage, some no longer require this). Once you are through security, you can buy what you like. Again, depends where you're flying as to whether they have Boots once you're through security. if nothing else, hope I've bumped for people who have flown with little ones very recently.

Second ladette's advice: better still phone the airport you're travelling from in case the website isn't up to date. We're going away with what will by then by a 7mo and I looked at the Dept of Transport website and phoned them - conflicting advice, miserable sod on end of phone. So I phoned up the airport instead - helpful, friendly chap. This was a teeny regional airport mind, not sure what sort of help you'd get from a majot airport, but worth pursuing imho so you get it from the horse's mouth as it were.

I flew BA in Feb

They are very relaxed about baby's food and milk. The only thing was that you need to put he milk in the bottle or what I've done before was to boil the water, put it in the bottle, take the powder seperate and as soon as you get on the plane, mix the two and ask them to heat it. They heat it with water in a jug so it takes a while if the water in the milk bottle is at room temp. If you don't need to feed your baby then its fine. They've not once asked me to taste any of ds' food or drink and we've flown longhaul with them 6 times in the last 2 years.

They are very good with giving you a hand in general, if you want a basonette you must ask for one before you fly (days before) else you will have to wait and see if any becomes available.

They usually have one stewardess that will look after you, they share the number of infants and cildren between them so that they can give you attention if need be.

Oh, and you get to board first, take your buggy to the plane and will get it back as soon as you leave the plane.

i flew from gatwick 4 weeks ago

if you were prepared to sip the drink in the bottled they let you take it on

We flew from Gatwick last Saturday and were told the rules had just changed and we had to open and sample every jar of baby food we had brought with us through security, thus of course rendering them unusable as you need to either keep them in the fridge or eat them within an hour. We therefore had to give the security officer 6 jars of completely sealed baby food. We also had to taste the milk we brought through - that was fine as DD3 was drinking it at time! The most frustrating thing was when we were through I then had to go and buy replacements - identical replacements - from Boots (BAA making some money here?!!). No one could explain why a sealed jar of baby pasta was a security risk, but it was an incredibly bad start to our holiday as of course if you kick up too much fuss they can just stop you flying. I am very pro security but felt that this really was penalising families with babies. On the flight BA are generally quite helpful at warming up food/bottles if you need them too. My advice is take only what you need through security in your hand baggage and have things you can re-seal!