anyone used a skycot? can you "describe" one to me please?

[tiredemma]

im just a work ( travel agents) and a customer is querying what the skycot on transatlantic flight is like. as its out of office hours now i cant check with the airline, can anyone hep me and describe one????

It's like a box with no lid that straps onto a large pull down table attached to the bulkhead!

I don't know what they're like now but 20 years ago it was a small shallow cardboard box with shoulders (distressingly coffin-shaped in fact ) - we were so disappointed we felt obliged to nick the TWA blanket that was in it.

And no pull-down table - ours had to go on the floor. Are they still cardboard boxes then? You'd think technology would have moved on a bit.

The BA one can be a box, or they also come as little reclining chairs, actually pretty cool.

the one we used was a canvas rectangle for the baby to sleep in, and was just clipped onto the bulkhead wall in front of the seat - there wasn't a table. There was a large belt that zipped across the top (but didn't touch the baby) so that it didn't fly out in there was turbulence. There are weight restrictions but don't know what they are

would a 5mth old be safe in one? he cant sit up and fall out can he?

This says it's like a hammock.

Discussion here , emma - 5 months may be little enough, but none of them sound too impressed.

Which airline is it?

I don't think most 5-month-olds can sit up without help, can they?

The BA one has a three-way-harness, from what I remember, so the kid is strapped in. Actually, I've only used BA ones, I think, so don't know about others.

we flew with Singapore Airlines to NZ and had one of these cloth rectanles that got clipped into the wall. had a big belt across. dd was 18 months and didnt actually sleep much as she preferred sitting in it... I think weight restriction was 9kg

thanks ladies, i will relay the info to the customer x

we used ours as a bin. Anyone else done that? DD spent the fourteen hour flight inside my bra. The crew let me sit on their seats at the back though (this was BA)

they depend on weight - it is like a cloth moses basket that secures to the wall with a wide band for securing babe in the basket - band zips together and a thin matress in the bott- from memory they can hold 14kg ( just check that). We have flown singapore airlines and that is what they are like.

dd still used one at almost 2 as she was so light and relatively small - slept in it a bit. ALso used it at 8 months when she slept soundly on both legs UK to Aus and back again.

Uncomfortable and more hassle than they are worth. Directly under the lights so no way that we could get DD off to sleep until they turned the lights down. And every time we hit turbulence we had to get her out and the air stewards came round to make sure we did. We then spent hours getting her back to sleep again.

American does the cloth ones but also the cardboard boxes (I thought the last ones were a make-do of the stewardess until I saw a little bear printed on the side...)