Checking a bag is something frequent flyers try mightily to avoid. It adds time, extra logistics, and cost to air travel. When little ones come along, however, packing light just isn’t always possible. Flying with a baby or toddler requires gear! The time comes for traveling parents to face the reality of needing to check …
Delta Airlines
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 …
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 …
A reader recently posted a troubling comment on my post from earlier this year about preboarding with children. While traveling on Delta yesterday, she was told that families with infants and small children were not allowed to preboard on Delta anymore. The gate agent told her that, under new Delta policy, preboarding would only be reserved …
As I recently announced, I’m expecting baby #2 this fall. I have one final cross-country trip planned when I’m 29 & 30 weeks pregnant (updates to follow in a post later this summer). When I was expecting Little V, I had to travel cross-country at 34 weeks because my little sister was getting married. Barring …
A few months ago, I blogged about the terribly family-unfriendly seating policies of American Airlines. When I booked a last minute trip on Delta earlier this week, I was faced with what looked like a similar problem… an airplane with lots of empty middle seats and no two seats together available to book anywhere on …
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 …