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.
Thanks for the input. Yes, she will be too old for the bassinet seat anyway.
We've thought about not bringing the car seat, but given that this will be an overnight flight, the goal is to get her to sleep as much as possible on the flight, which I think would be easier if she is in her car seat. Takeoff time corresponds well to her normal bed time, so the thought was to get her to sleep the whole time, which would be hard to do with her sitting upright in an economy seat.
Yes - we're getting off at CPH for 2 days. We'll have checked bags anyway, but we were obviously hoping to get the stroller plane-side to make getting through customs and the airport easier. Sounds like that might not be possible?