I talk a lot about flying with kids on this site, but what if you are ready for your child to fly without you? Each year, millions of parents trust their kids to the airlines, allowing them to fly solo to a destination as an unaccompanied minor. Whether your child is traveling to visit extended …
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I’m often asked by fellow traveling parents: “What is the best airline to fly with kids?” Air travel with kids can be stressful even in the best of circumstances, so it’s only natural that families want to fly an airline that makes things easier. If only the answer were so simple. For United States based …
Flying with kids can be a challenge. But sometimes airlines can make it harder by throwing a curveball your way with a unique rule or requirement that you weren’t expecting on your travel day. My family has flown on pretty much every US airline and quite a few international carriers over the years. While the basics …
When airline horror stories go viral with family travelers involved, I tend to hear about them pretty quickly. The stories are varied and usually pretty egregious – from families having milk and formula confiscated by TSA to an airline assigning a parent a seat 20 rows away from their baby or toddler. And let’s not forget the multiple …
We all know that car seats are the safest place on airplanes for babies and toddlers. Budget realities sometimes mean that families can’t buy a seat for their little ones every time. But when parents go out of their way to pay the extra money and bring a car seat on board, they need to be …
I have a confession. I call myself a miles and points addict, but my credentials are suspect. Why? I almost never use airline or other shopping portals to earn miles. For the uninitiated, what are these shopping portals of which I speak? Basically, they are what they sound like. They are websites affiliated with a …
When it comes to car seats and airplanes, I’ve been lucky. I’ve flown close to 100 flight segments with my children and have brought a car seat aboard for easily more than a dozen of those flights. I’ve never once been questioned or challenged by a member of any flight crew. Every few months, a story …
If you traveled at all over the holidays, you probably were well-acquainted with the travel nightmares that winter storms caused across the South and Eastern seaboard. The mess started on Christmas Day, with snow and ice hitting Texas and completely disabling AA’s biggest hub at Dallas/Ft. Worth. I was in my hometown in Alabama on …
I don’t fly American much, but I just booked some flights on American to return home for the Christmas holidays with my husband and three year old. Little did I know that I would be walking right into one of my least favorite travel-with-kids situations: seat assignment Russian roulette. I thought that by booking more …
I haven’t had to struggle with diapers for about a year now (hooray for a potty-trained toddler!), but I distinctly remember just how hard a simple diaper change could be when traveling with a little one. Believe it or not, there are a LOT of airplanes flying the friendly skies these days without a single …