pushchairs and airport check in

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I'm travelling through heathrow with a pushchair. Can we take it as hand luggage, and do they weigh it?

Haven't travelled through Heathrow recently, but when I have flown recently (from Southampton and Gatwick) they let us keep the pushchair until boarding and took it off us at the gate.
Good luck.

I haven't used one for a good four years, but we travelled a lot with dd and always took it to the airplane. It would be loaded from the tarmac and we'd get it back virtually as soon as we were off the plane. It doesn't count as either hand luggage or toward your weight allowance.

as inzidoodle said. We regularly travel from LHW and they have never weighed it, we keep it til the gate and then get it back on the baggage carousel. Sometimes if you are really really lucky they will label it so it can be delivered at the door of the aircraft at the other end but it really depends on the airline and airport.
sometimes buggys come out on a different baggage carousel from the normal suitcases

They usually specify that it has to be an umbrella folding type. But as inzidoodle says, check with the airline.

I flew in September from Heathrow with a Phil & Teds and no issues with that, just left at the gate and last week flew with a huge Graco pram and the car seat and they let us keep both til the gate (the pram was not at Heathrow though)

You need to double check where you get it back - we've had all the permutations, from on the carousel, on a special carousel, at oversized luggage, at the airplane door, at bottom of the steps...etc. It differs by airline and airport, so do check otherwise it can take a long time to be reunited with it!

Yes I would second check where it comes off at the end. DS was asleep when I landed at Birmingham so I waited till last to get off the plane. By the time I got to baggage claim the luggage was coming off and I had missed the message that said puschairs were on the 'oversized' carousel, at the opposite end of the baggage hall. Everyone had wandered off and I thought. hell where's the pushchair. Asked another Mum and she told me where they were, thing is the outsized carousel doesnt go round and round, it just comes out and ends at a wall, so if you dont get there quick enough all the luggage piles onto the floor. Dragging a pusHchair out from underneath two outsize suitcases is not what I wanted

I had wondered why there seemed to be a cage of broken/unclaimed pushchairs