Originally Posted by kef0913
You mention that you only bought three seats and then say that you might get four together. How are you going to do this? Are you talking about buying another seat, or are you hoping to snag an empty one? On international flights I have never known an airline to give a free empty seat to an infant as they might on a domestic flight. You will have to pay 10% of the applicable fare for an lap child and usu. around 75% for a INS in a seat (sometimes as high as 90%).
For the two year old bring a variety of activities that they like to do, and low sugar/carb snacks.
Have a safe trip!
We did pay the 10% for the baby and have a paper ticket for him. As far as what I am thinking about getting an extra seat is that the plane has a LOT of empty seats at this point (looks like about 80 at this point in coach) and I do not think too many people at the last minute decide to fly to SYD -- although I could be wrong and the situation on board may be very different when we actulally get on the plane next Thursday. In that case there will be no question -- we will take the Bassinet.
Thanks for the snack tip -- I was not thinking in terms of low carb snacks, but it makes sense.