TnT's Mom
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Just wanted to give people a heads up that they may run into some trouble with gate checking carseats...or it could have just been our gate attendant (or whatever you call the person at the counter at the actual gate ). We just traveled to Florida on United and when I asked for two gate check tags for our stroller and our son's Compass B500, the man told me they could not gate check a carseat...I politely told him he could as I had done it in the past...he said no they were told not too and he would check the seat to Orlando (we were flying through Dulles)...I told him never mind I would just carry it on (which I knew it wouldn't fit on this first flight because of the plane size so could he instead give me a carry on baggage check tag that they give to people on the smaller flights who are connecting to bigger planes where the carry on will fit...he wasn't too happy that I was able to get around what he wanted to do...but seriously? as if I was going to check the seat all the way to Orlando even if it is a booster and not a 5 point? We usually carry it on to ensure it gets to our destination and the rental car but I was willing to gate check it this time and risk some banging up of it (it was packed snuggly in its own bag) because I had to carry the Marathon on for my other son and dh had work stuff as well and we had bulk head seats on some of our flights which limited our carry on bag space. On the next leg of our flight we told them we needed 2 gate check tags for strollers...they never even batted an eye at the bag (as if there was a stroller in there?) We did the same thing on the flights home...
Sorry this was wordy (and I hope it makes sense!) but wanted to let people know that if you don't have a plane seat for your child and want to gate check your carseat you might get an annoying gate guy like we did!! Has anyone else had trouble recently? Maybe it was because I told him it was a booster seat? But honestly I don't think he even knew what I kind of seat I meant because he saw our Marathon and when we told him that one was coming on the plane he said he still couldn't gate check the other seat???
Sorry this was wordy (and I hope it makes sense!) but wanted to let people know that if you don't have a plane seat for your child and want to gate check your carseat you might get an annoying gate guy like we did!! Has anyone else had trouble recently? Maybe it was because I told him it was a booster seat? But honestly I don't think he even knew what I kind of seat I meant because he saw our Marathon and when we told him that one was coming on the plane he said he still couldn't gate check the other seat???