Originally Posted by
RDUWanderer
Nice try.
I'm pretty sure that you cannot assign a seat to an infant or small child without you sitting next to said infant or small child. Children aren't allowed as unaccompanied minors until at least age 5.
Yes, he would buy these in business class (mother and child next to each other).
Originally Posted by
RDUWanderer
In addition, there are rules about where you can and can't put car seats. For example, in an A-B window/aisle configuration, the car seat *must* go in the window A seat and not in the aisle B seat.
This may be an issue. There have been a lot of studies that a plain seat belt is better than a car seat. However, i think a child needs to be at least 6 months for this to matter.
I still think this is doable if you are nice to the FAs, are honest upfront, and make sure they know an option could have been 2 business class seats / no coach seat. After all you are being more safe than most 2<year old parents.
Therefore, the answer is that you need to officially assign the baby to a seat next to one of you. And if you actually install the car seat in that seat, you're going to have issues with uninstalling it and moving the other parent into that seat.