Travel pram for flying with a parent facing option?

[Georgus]

does it exist? I’ve only ever seen travel prams that are world facing and I feel like I’ve scoured the whole of google looking.

my baby will be 5 months when we travel on a plane and ideally would still like them to be parent facing and move them to world facing when suits. We have an icandy peach 7 which in all honesty I regret buying because it’s so impractical! I just can’t see us taking this with us.

i was hoping I could get a parent facing compact pram instead but I cannot find one anywhere. Any recommendations?

Hi- Not sure myself, but I Googled and wondered if this may help:

www.ndcs.org.uk/information-and-support/parenting-and-family-life/family-blogs/parent-facing-buggies/

I'm not sure there would be one - for a proper travel pushchair you want the seat to also fold up so its made of fabric and that makes it pretty impossible for it to also be rotatable/removable. I think a lot of them also advise 6m+ i.e. for a baby that can hold its head up, but I could be wrong about that (and your baby could already be doing that).

If you have a small fortune to spare I know you can fit a bassinet on the frame of a babyzen yoyo, but I assume the bassinet doesn't actually fold up just the frame. Maybe someone who has one can confirm.

It does depend on what your needs are, but a lot of airlines will take even a bulky pushchair in the hold for free for an infant. The only problem is you won't have it to take to the gate, but maybe an infant carrier for that?

Hope you have a great trip!

We have a cybex mios which is very small/light weight compared to a regular travel system and we do now use ours as a travel pram (we originally bought it as our main pram but replaced it for something with bigger wheels because we moved house and needed a more off-road type pram). It’s on the expensive side though so wouldn’t recommend it unless you were going to use it more regularly or travel a lot.

The mios does fold with the seat attached (not the bassinet obviously but the seat is lie flat so suitable for a 5 month old). It is small and light but not sure it’s quite cabin friendly size though. Not sure how helpful that is!

By travel pram do you mean an ultra compact which is IATA compliant like the Yoyo or Butterfly? If so, there aren’t any (or aren’t any good ones) because as a PP says, there are just too many compromises to make a pram small and lightweight enough to have a reversible seat included. I have a Joolz Hub 2 which is small and lightweight with a reversible seat, but isn’t cabin luggage sized. Might be worth looking at your airline to see what prams they take in the cabin though - some (I think TUI and Ryanair) don’t accept the smallest ones like the Yoyo so you’d need to check the pushchair anyway.

Get a baby zen yoyo. With seat facing forward. It’s not worth buying the newborn pack now

But you can buy the yoyo car seat adapter s for it and then use your car seat on it as parent facing option whilst your away?
Just use pram with seat at airport and check car seat in with luggage. Then have flexibility to use both whilst there. You can do this until they outgrow baby car seat at about 18 months

Ryanair def fits the yoyo if you buy the overhead lugagge ( priority)

Maybe this isn't true of all airports/airlines, but last time I flew with a buggy it was fine to take it to the gate. You got a tag for the hold when you checked in your baggage, and then you just folded it up (we also put ours into a travel bag) as you boarded the plane and they put all the buggies in the hold then. So I'd check if this is possible for you, and then just get/bring the buggy of your choice.