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Old Jul 11, 2019, 7:20 pm
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iron_mike
 
Join Date: Dec 2008
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No seatbelt for lap infants on AC TATL?

Hi everyone -

Was flying ZRH-YYZ on AC (economy) direct last week. We'd already started pushback and still nobody had come by to talk to my wife and I about our 1.5 year old daughter who was on our laps. I hit the call button and asked the flight attendant if we'd be getting, for instance, a seatbelt.

She said, "No, not on this flight. Just hold on to her tight, facing you."

This seems reckless bordering on crazy, to me. (If we'd been on today's Honolulu flight my daughter would have been very badly injured.) But then I'm relatively new to flying with kids and thought I'd put it out there. Is this policy? Is there new research or legislation around this? Or just a hugely risky play by a flight caught unprepared? I've emailed AC, but, well . . .
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