Jet2 infant luggage

[RedRobyn2021]

Please can anyone tell me if this means I can bring a car seat in the hold and a pushchair up to the gate as the extra 10kg?

I have luggage in hold paid for

Yes but I interpreted this to mean that both combined can only be 10kg

Best thing to do would be to phone Jet2. I've always found them to be very helpful in clarifying anything .

I checked with them

The tricky thing is her car seat is only just under 10kg so would definitely exceed the allowance with the 7.5Kg jolie pushchair

I am not allowed to bring the pushchair as hand luggage just because it needs to be a certain size and the length exceeds this

It's £12 per kilo for an additional piece of equipment so that's almost £100 to bring the pushchair too. Interested to know what others do with much younger children!

I think we might just be able to manage as my daughter is 3, but it would have been hard when she was 2 and under

The car seat gets checked in along with your suitcase and you keep the pushchair with you until you board. As long as the car seat is under 10kg I don't think you will have any problems as they don't weigh the pushchair at any point. They usually put a luggage tag on it at the check in desk ready for when it goes in the hold, but we've never once been asked to remove the child, fold it up and put it on the scales!

Edited to add we've taken both cheap umbrella folds and a large double buggy that was 15kg and no one batted an eyelid. Maybe the 10kg limit applies only if you are leaving it at the check in desk?

If your daughter is 3 she isn’t an infant for travel. An infant is an under 2 who travels for free on your lap

So she has a normal child’s allowance, no extra 10kg free.

https://www.jet2.com/FAQs?topic=travelling-with-children-and-infants&category=child-infant-equipment

from here if you look at the pushchair, car seat etc categories I think they can a pram , and car seat, and travel cot all for free. Each individual item has to be under 10kg. So a 10kg car seat and 7.5kg pram can both be checked in fine.

Then there’s no extra 10kg infant luggage, just whatever handluggage or more bags you have selected on your tickets

I've flown with jet2 multiple times and never once had the pushchair weighed, they just tagged it.

Our push chair is just a jolie nitro so it's only about 8kg, the person I spoke to at jet2 did say it was at the airports discretion so maybe it's luck of the draw

Were you bringing a car seat too though?

Agree with a pp, if your daughter is 3 she isn't an infant for Jet2 and just has the normal luggage allowance not the additional 10kg.

If that's correct that would be a big relief

It does say in the first paragraph "as long as the total weight of these items doesn't exceed 10kg" which I interpreted as the weight of both a car seat and pushchair and travel cot in total

It weird 2 of you have said this because the representative from Jet2 told me this afternoon she would have 10kg hand luggage (I told him she was 3yo) so now I don't know whether to believe their advice or ring them this time to clarify and check again

See below

Do you think I should ring them?

When we travelled when dd2 was 6 months and dd1 was just shy of 3, we checked in the double pushchair and I used a baby carrier through the airport, didn't take a car seat.

When dd2 was 18 months, we had the mamas and papas airo that folds down to fit in the overhead locker so took that all the way through the airport and folded it on the plane and did the same this year when she was 2.

We've never taken a car seat with us as they've always been provided by the transfer company we've used

I've always taken it as if the child has their own seat, they have the same hand luggage allowance as an adult would

They don't normally weigh them together and it wouldn't make sense because as you say, most car seats/pushchairs are about 7-8kg each, even if they are lightweight ones.

Although it says infant allowance, it's possible that they do allow the car seat and pushchair to be used longer. You could always phone them up and ask.

Hi OP. What happened with this in the end? I'm travelling with a 2yo and infant, both of whom need a pram and travel cot. I can't see how you could find a pram and travel cot/car seat to come in under 10kg!?

IME they don’t weigh the pram if you’re gate checking it (taking it to plane doors), only if you’re handing it over at the point of check in.

I’ve had this back from Jet2 recently about infant baggage allowance. Do you think this means I can take 32kg now? (not that I have a case big enough!)

Yes, you have magically got 32kg instead of 22kg, no questions asked. And the car seat and pushchair on top of that.

Also remember that you can combine the weights of all the checked bags on a single booking code (this is standard airline practice and even the dreaded Ryanair allows it). So if you have two adults with 22kg and one infant with 10kg on the booking, you can take 54kg in any combination using up to three bags.