Originally Posted by
RafKa
Reviving this 5 year old thread to say that my wife and 5-month old son are travelling SCL-AKL in Y in a couple of days, and I am shocked to find that there is a charge of U$140 each way for a bassinet!!
I never heard of this on any other airline, AFAIK bassinet is always free of charge... are we paying for the bassinet itself, or for the Space+ seat assignment?
The charge is a couple months old. It was in fact free until late last year. The payment is for the BSCT service (which is tied to a front row assignment).
The payment was introduced from an ancillary revenue perspective, but it also intends to manage demand for the service (which, although marginal, does have processing costs and, since no more than 2 BSCTs are available on any given flight, reducing the amount of requests reduces the amount of people complaining for not getting the assignment)
Keep in mind that if you get the service confirmed, even though LAN will make every possible effort to seat both adults on the front row so they travel together, the only guarantee is that one of the adults will be able to seat on row 12.