Originally Posted by
SASegments
We’ve travelled long haul with infants and toddlers several times. We’ve never used a car seat and we’ve avoided bassinet seats for several years as they are horribly uncomfortable for others due to the wall and the fixed armrests.
Having a seat for a 18 months old toddler sounds like a luxury and you might want to consider not bringing any car seat and just be using the seatbelt?
For takeoff and landing all European carriers will have an infant belt that is clipped onto the adult seat belt. Obviously the child would then go on lap for that but I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to use that for the remainder of the flight as well when the child is in own seat sleeping or whatever.
Stroller policy is very airport dependent and somewhat unreliable. Our experience is never trust what check in staff tells you as they often don’t know. We’ve been promised delivery at aircraft lots of times without getting it.
In understand you are getting off in CPH and not just in transit. In that event you should be prepared to wait for the stroller for up to an hour at the belt. CPH is horrible when it comes to that.
SAS@CPH generally won't do gate-side delivery of strollers checked in a the gate -- even when tagged for delivery at gate. The US airlines flying to CPH are much better about gate-side delivery of gate-delivery-tagged strollers at CPH.
CPH does have some of its own airside strollers and lots of baggage carts that can handle the transport of a 1-3 year old child. ARN, however, is much worse than CPH in this regard.
Stroller delivery on the oversize baggage plank at CPH has been quite bad at times, but it has gotten better than it used to be -- or at least they seem to be getting delivered within 10-20 minutes of the rest of the baggage on the baggage belt or even sooner. But CPH is slow for delivery of checked baggage onto the baggage belt even when it doesn't involve strollers/carseats/oversize luggage.