Ally

My wife and I will be traveling with our six-month-old (at the time of travel) twins from DFW to LGW in first class. We have seats for all four of us. We will be connecting to an Emirates flight to Dubai in first class at Gatwick after a layover of about six hours. This is the first trip my kids will be making. I want it to be good for us and I do not want to ruin the trip of others who would be sharing the cabin with us.

Please give me advice on how to keep the kids comfortable in the flight and to help them cry as little as possible. Thanks.

Two other questions:

1. Would they need car seats in the planes?

2. I understand that we will have to use the Delta airlines lounge at Gatwick because they have a partnership agreement with Emirates. I do not know if that lounge is good or not and would rather use the BA lounge. Would we be allowed to use the BA first lounge as arriving passengers?

Thanks.

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Ally


Take a look at this thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum15/HTML/004798.html

It is about 2 posts away from yours....

jongar

I believe there is a seperate kidies first class section located inside the engine cowling of both 747 and 777 aircraft - i am sure others will be able to confirm - otherwise try dipping te dummy in good brandy - worked on me apparently when i was very little - probably still would

cxn

i guess i shouldnt let anyone know what flight my wife, 1 year old and I will be on next year, first SEA - LHR.

just trying to confirm row 1 at this time. personally, i am tired of all the drunks on the plane .

Christian

willyroo

I would strongly recommend using car seats. BA supplies Britax skycots, which are suitable for use with bassinets, but a car seat is much safer, and it's a familiar environment for your twins.

Further, you should ask for bassinet seats for yourselves. If you've got a 6 month old who needs comforting during the flight, you can put them in the bassinet.

SteveinA2

If I owned an Airline I'd prohibit under fives in First Class. At $12,000 a go I expect peace and quiet

It could be a successful marketing program for some airline

(As a minimun I'd charge Kids full fare - why do BA charge infants 10% of the fare???)

BigKing

When you post essentially the same kind of response to every thread about kids for months and months it really is not half as funny as you must think. It is actually just the same thing over and over, and it was not particularly witty the first time. You don't like kids, great we understand, anything else to say or is that pretty much it?

ScottC

Now you know how I felt with all the same responses on the Jaguar fiasco!

P.S. It's a joke

Gaza

I'm assuming you have paid Full Fare for you and your wife and the 80% of Full Fare for the children. BA offer an Infant fare WITHOUT a seat for 10% of the full fare.

If they have their own seat they will need an approved car seat. Skycots (Bassinets) cannot be used during take off and landing. I'd call BA and book Bassinett seats. Due to the layout of First Class I'm not sure how you will be able to be seated together as a family.

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PUCCI GALORE

Maybe I am just a sourpuss, but I was a little surprised to see two threads about babies and children in First Class (again I ask, does anyone travel anything but First Class).

Now, I am sure that there is tons of information that can be found by doing a search here, so if this is a genuine inquiry please stop reading here and ignore everything that I am going to say.

Quite honestly since there are two topics that drive this Board into frenzies they are children in premium cabins, and compensation. I find that we have very very few children in First Class as a rule. Then suddenly we have both. I hasten to add that I have no problem with the timing or content of the lady who started the first.

Most people who sit in First are being paid for by businesses. I have to say that most people who seem to pop in and out seem to fly First Class all the time. We never hardly have conversations from Club World, and I thought that was the Businessmen/ladies cabin.

May I say that we often have posters with just a few posts under their belt start threads which are highly contentious. Having read some of the remarks which - sorry again - may have been honest but were certainly not the finest hours of the people who posted them. Again, I intend to offend nobody. In that light along comes a post which genuinely seems ready to light more touch paper, and we all rise to the bait.

Sorry, but I am being as honest but I find the whole timing highly dubious. We have a british expression and it is "Wind Up" (as in clock). Scotty uses another expression.

Still, have fun, and forgive me if I do not stop to play or if I am wrong in my suspicions but I'm off to bed.

[This message has been edited by PUCCI GALORE (edited 08-18-2003).]

jongar

putting kids it the cowling - i genuinely believe that there should be a process of mandatory sedation for children on night flights. Sometimes you gotta do the whole orchard to get the bad apples.