Air travel help

crunchierthanthou

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We're planning a trip next month and I'm considering staying an extra week with the kids while dh comes home to work. here's the problem- we're flying to a smaller regional airport and the only planes that service it are ones with two seats on each side of the aisle. Ds will be 4y5mo and dd will be 4 mos. The flight is 1.5-2 hours. WWYD?
 
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unityco

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We're planning a trip next month and I'm considering staying an extra week with the kids while dh comes home to work. here's the problem- we're flying to a smaller regional airport and the only planes that service it are ones with two seats on each side of the aisle. Ds will be 4y5mo and dd will be 4 mos. The flight is 1.5-2 hours. WWYD?

Put the kids on one side (youngest on the window seat,) and you sit on the aisle seat across the aisle from them. You may get grief about having a carseat in an aisle seat, but you should be able to make the argument that it's not impeding the ability of your youngest child to reach the aisle.

Optionally, you could have your older child in a CARES harness, or nothing on the plane - that should make for less grief for having two children in one row.

If the flight's not full and you have the option, I would put both children in the windows and you can sit in either aisle seat, depending on who needs the attention at the time.

That's just my :twocents: though. :eek:

It could be worse... the only planes that fly to my parents' airport have only ONE seat on each side (but at least that makes them ALL window seats. ;))
 

Gypsy

Senior Community Member
Put the kids on one side (youngest on the window seat,) and you sit on the aisle seat across the aisle from them. You may get grief about having a carseat in an aisle seat, but you should be able to make the argument that it's not impeding the ability of your youngest child to reach the aisle.

Optionally, you could have your older child in a CARES harness, or nothing on the plane - that should make for less grief for having two children in one row.

If the flight's not full and you have the option, I would put both children in the windows and you can sit in either aisle seat, depending on who needs the attention at the time.

That's just my :twocents: though. :eek:

It could be worse... the only planes that fly to my parents' airport have only ONE seat on each side (but at least that makes them ALL window seats. ;))

I completely agree.

Put the kids next to each other.

When I flew last summer, I had both kids on one side, and me in the aisle on the other. I could hand dd things to hand to ds and it worked really well.

The flight attendant told me I couldn't do that, but then I said "they both have life threatening food allergies and can't sit near anyone eating, so either they sit next to each other, or you ban the person in the window seat here from eating". They didn't say anything else.

They are worried that parents won't take care of their children's needs if they are across the aisle - and while it IS harder, it's doable.
 

crunchierthanthou

New member
so put the four month old on the window across the aisle? I hadn't considered... hmm... I uh, don't see that working. :eek: Ds is a helpful and mature 4, but I don't think putting him between the baby and me is the best solution. but really, I'm not sure there is a good solution at all.

I was thinking maybe I'd put ds on the window in the row in front of us. That way I can be next to the baby and still have him within arms reach, yet keep him in a proper seat. If we don't use his seat on the plane, we'll have to check it (there's functionally no difference between gate and regular checking at this airport). I just don't know if that's enough access for either of us to feel comfortable.
 

Gypsy

Senior Community Member
How about putting him on the aisle across from you and you next to the baby?

If he is in front of you, you wouldn't be able to see him, and you never know what kind of person will be sitting next to him.
 

petsparkle

New member
How about putting him on the aisle across from you and you next to the baby?

If he is in front of you, you wouldn't be able to see him, and you never know what kind of person will be sitting next to him.

I agree. Baby in window seat, you in aisle seat next to baby, 4 year old on aisle seat of middle row next to you. I've seen parents do that on many trips (I do a lot of international flights).
 

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