Originally Posted by
Often1
If people weren't crooks, FAA would have the requirement and WN (and other carriers) wouldn't have to be so tough about it. There's a real temptation by people to save the $ and put their kid at risk at >2 and the only way to be certain is is to always require it.
Yet WN is the only airline I know of that has a proof-of-age requirement. I've never been asked for proof of age when traveling domestically with a lap child on any other airline, but WN asks for it even when the kid is only a couple months old and there's no way (s)he could be over the age of 2.