We have an upcoming trip on Southwest (LGA-ATL-LGA). It will be our first flight as parents and our little guy will be just shy of 3 months old. We're planning on taking our full-size stroller (~20lbs) and his car seat separately as we'd like to have both the stroller seat and car seat with us in ATL (instead of just using the car seat as a the stroller seat all the time).
I presume we are able to carry the car seat and wheel the stroller through security - then gate check both? I've read that space permitting some GAs will allow the car seat onto the plane even though we don't plan on purchasing a ticket - so we could do that if the opportunity arises but we're planning on (and expecting) using a carrier.
We have the Phil and Teds Universal Travel Bag (
https://philandteds.com/us/Buy/adapt...sal-travel-bag) which we can put the car seat in to keep it relatively protected, and we can purchase a separate stroller bag -and would take recommendations on that@!
Thanks for your help!