Giving my son the right start
 

I took my 16 week old son on his maiden voyage yesterday, LHR->LYS. Thanks to all I learnt from this board, I was legitimately able to pitch an avios CE booking to my ("anything other than Y is a waste of money") wife as a genuine and huge cost saving over travelling U2.

So, thanks to you all for your education (and also to a relatively lightly loaded CE), my son's first ever flight was in in seat 1A. :D

I'm seeing this as an example for him of "starting off the way you intend to continue"! ^

P.s. since we don't have status and lounges are new to her, the wife is now asking if we can afford to travel J in future…;)

One always remembers their first business class flight and subsequently First class flight, so glad he and your family enjoyed ! Next step F ... :D

I hope his champagne was cold enough and that he didn't ask for two teabags :D

He was too busy sleeping I think, and left the (coolish) champagne to daddy! :D

But the purser was so nice with him. She proactively got him a kids flight log book and got the captain to fill it out. Great crew makes the difference. ^

Yes, that's true. I fondly remember my first J TATL, in 64A. That was a good flight, if slightly hazy at the end due to the excellent and frequent beverage service. :D

I'm sure a few FTr's probably have log books too. :D

Glda your son enjoyed his CE experience.

Oh, I don't think it is allowed to mention crew names on here so you may want to edit that as a Moderator will. ;)

Oops, thanks for the heads up, I didn't know. I assumed since I was saying something nice it would be ok. I've removed it now.

It's fairly common on here but no worries. I did it myself when I first joined (and maybe a few times after that too..... :o:D)

You can send a ba.com/well done if you think the crew XXXX did a great job.

You do realise that by allowing your son to sample premium cabins he'll want to try CW or F next? :p

Joking aside you can certainly learn from the people on here, I still find it fascinating after nearly 10 years and amazed what folks find/post etc.

My plan is to let him enjoy premium cabins while he's too young to notice. Once he is a bit older, he can earn his own avios/cash and sort his own travel out! :p

@PETER01 you may also want to edit your quoting as well. 😀

Beware. My 8 year old finds ET unsuitable for her needs/requirements. She is very keen to know all about how BAEC works and what she can do to improve her status level.

Doesn't work like that.We took young rapidex to JFK when he was 3 months.He is now always dipping into the household account.He's of to the rugby sevens next year.LHR-HKG on the BA A380 F and HKG-LHR on CX F.

You have just unleashed a monster^:D

Oops, silly me :o ! I forgot to edit the actual original OP's quote but I see one of the Mods has. ^

A cunning plan I say :D;)

Financial commitments and ruin lie ahead :p

Lounge access and extra luggage allowance are the main reasons why we choose to fly CE. It's even better value now since they introduced buy on board in economy.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear if CE was growing in popularity especially amongst non status leisure passengers.