Travelling EasyJet with baby..

[HopefulElle]

Hi everyone, we’re about to take DS away, flying EasyJet. Their policy says that you’re allowed to take 2x baby items, eg pram, car seat, cot, in the hold. Last time we flew with them we took a cot and a pram. This time we only need the pram, so I’m contemplating still taking the cot bag (clearly branded as a travel cot bag) and filling it with other baby items - e.g snooze shade, rain cover, nappies, bouncer etc. I can’t see that it makes any difference to EasyJet as it will be the same size bag, and lighter, if anything. But technically wouldn’t comply.
Has anyone else done this? Or if you’ve flown EasyJet with babies have they ever actually checked the contents of your baby equipment? Don’t want to get stung with last minute extra luggage charges!
thanks x

I’d do it without hesitation. Seems sensible!

Not quite the same but when we flew recently with Ryanair, we had our pram and the car seat. The seat was in a bag marked ‘car seat’, and we definitely filled around it with some nappies, sleeping bags and (on the way home) dirty clothes! On both the departure and return legs no one looked inside the bag: we had to bring it to the oversized luggage belt to drop off, and there AFAIK the staff don’t work for an airline, so aren’t too interested in their ‘rules’.

We’re travelling again soon and tbh you’ve made me wonder about the car seat bag again. We actually don’t need to bring it on this occasion as our car rental includes a seat, but… 🤔

You can try it, but it feels a bit cheeky since baby isn't paying for any luggage allowance. The intention is that you will hand a large plastic or metal lump, which is clearly an item of "equipment", to the handling staff at the door of the plane. I guess it's a question of whether you want to risk meeting a jobsworth, either at the gate or at the entrance to the plane.

I can definitely imagine Ryanair having a bit of a sense of humour failure about this and charging you £70 or whatever it is to check the bag in, but I don't know how often Easyjet picks that kind of fight with its customers.

Update: have flown with EasyJet, Ryan Air & SAS since posting. EJ/RA barely even blinked in the direction of our items. SAS the only airline that specifies the items they’ll accept & that there must be nothing else in the bag. They weighed and asked what the contents were but didn’t look inside bag at all (we did put some nappies in the buggy basket before folding but that was it, so wouldn’t have mattered if we had to ditch).