Which buggies can I take as hand luggage?

[TheBlonde]

Quinny zapp?

petit star zia?

any other ones small enough?

They nearly always do not give you the buggy back as you get off the plane. We fly a lot.

However, we very often are able to ask the air hostess we get to first, nearest the door, if they can stick it in the cupboard with business class's suits/jackets/their own stuff. Very often they say yes!
The one time they said no was when there were about 5 other families on board and they did not want to have to say yes to everyone

Give it a try, why not? They can only say no. (we have a 5kg maclaren quest, or something)

About 2yrs ago, we did always get the buggy back though.... some policy has changed somewhere... bastards!

I've got one of these
It fits easily into the overhead locker,DP carried it as hand luggage.It was very useful during a 14 hour stopover on the way back from
Australia.

that's clever lillypie

Starlight - we travelled to Oz last year with a disabled child and at Gatwick they wouldn't give us her pushchair back at the gate!

I said there was no way on this earth DH and I could carry her (and the other baby and all our hand luggage) to baggage through immigration etc. The ground staff were very apologetic and arranged for the electric buggy thing to take us through. So we got a ride all the way to baggage reclaim via immigration, where we didn't have to queue.

I couldn't believe they wouldn't keep the pushchair to one side, even when they knew from the passenger manifesto we were travelling with a disabled child.

Aah. Had forgotten. I flew a lot when DS still in a buggy and the only times I ever had a problem were UK airports. They are not insured to carry the buggy up the steps from where it is in the hold to the plane door.

Every other country managed it fine of course.

I did once refuse to move from the door of the plane till they got my buggy. They couldn't get the cleaning crew on till I moved so I didn't move.

It is useful,DP keeps it in his car now.

But bergentulip, on most charter flights there isn't a cupboard at the front. There's no spare space at all, to get the max. number of seats in!

lillypie - that looks brilliant. Not available in the UK though

did you buy that in Oz, lilypie? can't see it anywhere here (uk)..

well, I don't know where they put it. Somewhere certainly. Maybe they do squeeze it into an overhead locker. I'm pretty sure they do have some sort of cupboard for the crew on most flights?
They just take it, and by the time we have gathered up all the coats and bags and passports hanging off the buggy (oh, and child!) to walk into the plane, it's gone....

We have flown to/from Germany a few times, usually BA-- who, incidentally, I think are fab, contrary to everyone else's experiences. Never had ANY problems with them (now furiously 'touch wood'ing on my head, hoping I have not jinxed things for future flights[!] - sorry, I am a little childish on occasions!)

on the website they say it's ava from babystyle.co.uk

oh, just realised. These are on scheduled flights, not charter.
So, okay, our solution is not therefore viable for plane with no space in it- sorry.

I have a mothercare one that is brilliant...folds up really small and comes in a rucksack, we have had it as hand luggage lots of times and also had our usual hand luggage too. ill try and find a link

bergentulip, I worked as cabin crew (not for BA!!) and people always wanted me to put their coats in the front cupboard- except it was the toilet!
Buggies are usually put in the hold- incidently, at Leeds/Bradford where I worked we would bring buggies back and put them at the bottom of the steps/ just inside the airbridge for pax. to pick up as they disembarked . That was a good few years ago though

Well, then I am definitely stumped. No idea. The cabin crew are obviously just very nice and find somewhere for us.... as saintly as you perhaps .... they lose use of their toilet for the duration of the flight?(!!) Perhaps not....

'tis a nightmare when arriving in a big airport otherwise. Amsterdam is the WORST! It's just soooooo loooooooooong.

(because they have handed it to us as we reach the front of the plane, whilst we are still inside.... certainly once or twice anyway. Sometimes it is just sitting there waiting.

Yes I bought it in OZ,but I thought you could buy quicksmart products in the UK.

We travelled from Heathrow to Auckland via LAX. Heathrow let us take the buggy onto the plane and put it in the overhead storage bins but after thatthey took it off us at the gate. We had to walk miles jiggling 2 bags we'd planned to put on the pushchair handles, plus 11 mo plus the luggage.

On the way home they"lost" it at LAX so we had over 24 hours with no pushchair.

That babystyle.co.uk link has the folding buggy and it's £109.99

The quickstyle folds to L55 x H23 x W52cm
which is too big (maximum 56cm tall, 45cm wide and 25cm deep according to the BAA Gatwick page).

they dont let you carry it as hand luggage...they take it off you at the boarding gate and whack it in the plane where the luggaqge is

i have always carried quinny zapp on.flew with t ast week BA.never been challenged

i took zapp and i small bag as hand luggage last week - no problemo

thanks scottishmummy