Pseudo Nim

Hi all,

I'm trying to figure this out w/o having to call the AP booking office. If an adult travels with an infant on rewards, what is the fee for the infant in the following two situations? Can it (the infant) be added for a minimal charge, or would one have to effectively buy a new ticket? Note - no seat for infant (held in arms).

- YYZ-NRT (100k in J for adult, AC metal only)
- YYZ-LAX-RAR (100k in J for adult, AC/NZ or UA/NZ mix)

Thanks very much!

-pN

hjohnson

I'm not sure about these flights, but I flew a friend's wife and their newborn round-trip YVR->YZF last winter on my points. Booked the ticket through the AP site, then called up the callcentre to add the infant. They didn't charge me for the addition.

ciana

This is on the AE site about infants.

Redeem your miles or pay a flat fee for an infant flight reward. Whatever you choose, your mileage redemption or flat fee will be the same across infant ticket travel zones:

Economy Class - $50 or 5,000 Aeroplan Miles
Business Class - $100 or 10,000 Aeroplan Miles
First Class - $125 or 12,500 Aeroplan Miles

To book your infant flight reward or get more information, please call the Aeroplan Contact Centre. Infant Terms and Conditions: *At this time, infant rewards cannot be booked online and are only required for international travel

Pseudo Nim

My bad. I swear I looked on AE's site for this, and I even Googled, but I seem to have missed that. I suspect that applies to both AC and non-AC metal?

Flews

Even with this information, you have to phone to add children to the booking. We usually pay the fee (which is only for international flights, not domestic) rather than using the points. BYMMV.

Cheers,

moebod

was searching for a answer and saw this old thread

I am planning on booking a award ticket with my aeroplan miles. the ticket will have lx,lh and ua flights in it. will aeroplan only charge me 100 dollars to add a infant? I would like to book the ticket now already, but the baby is not born yet. Can I call aeroplan in 3 month to add the infant, once I know the d.o.b and name (we dont know the name yet, as we kept the gender as surprise)

thanks

Pseudo Nim

As in the post above.

It's not a problem if your infant is yet to be born (when I posted the message above, mine wasn't born either yet). You just tell them that you will add an infant to the flight, they will make a note on the file, and you call when you know. It'll be a $100 fee, assuming you're in business, for your ENTIRE itinerary. Make sure, then, to call individual airlines and ENSURE you have a bassinet, it will make your life SO much easier.

Btw - if you're flying AC and they claim they have a bassinet on their new layout J, they are LYING [or are desperately misinformed] (they told me they did... I had no idea where they could POSSIBLY fit one, but admittedly, I've only flown AC/J "babyless" so I never paid attention... showed up to the flight, and sure enough, no bassinet on it and only a "sorry").

oneworld82

By far best deal out there when redeeming miles and traveling with an infant!

Diabeetus

Ha. Yes. We redeemed round trip J tix and paid the $100.

aionesu

Note that you may also pay taxes. For example, trips that go through the US will have ~20$ of taxes added.

And make sure to call the airlines to confirm. We just flew an itinerary that has LH, OS, TK and AC, and even though a ticket was issued, and an infant added, it had not actually been associated with the infant. Check-in took 30 minutes longer (good thing we got to the airport early) to work around the strange situation.