Gate Check of Strollers with Air Canada

[shortie88]

Just wondering if anyone has had any problems with gate checking a stroller with Air Canada. It says on their website that they really preference umbrella type strollers and give the collapsed dimensions. We have a Baby Jogger City Mini which folds flat, but I will have to measure to see if it conforms. I was under the impression that all strollers were gate checkable...is this just Air Canada? Our daughter will be 4 so if we have to check it with baggage we can as she can walk fine through the airport, but since we are leaving through Pearson it would be nice to have in case she wants to rest (or we need to move faster, lol!) Any insight into this would be great as we have never travelled with a stroller before. Thanks!

 

[Gracomom]

We've used this one a couple of times and never had trouble (it's a larger 3 wheeled, inexpensive one from Walmart): http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/expedition-sport-3-wheel-stroller/6000105530554

 

[Lizard Valley]

I work for them; they gate check all strollers

 

[shortie88]

Thanks so much for your replies. We've never travelled with our daughter before, so have never needed to fly with a stroller. Good to know that all strollers are able to be gate checked!

 

[Maddysdaddy]

Westjet story - we gate checked our Graco stroller when our daughter was 2 or 3 (so about 6 or 7 years ago), and when we picked it up, one of the axel's was bent and one of the wheels was broken in two.

They said that they would send it out to be fixed and that we should go out and purchase another stroller (that they would end up keeping at the airport on our flight home) and they would reimburse us the cost. Yes, it was a bit of a pain having to make an extra stop to buy a new stroller, but considering they could have told us to "get stuffed", we were pleased with their response.

Just throwing this out there as a word of warning that accidents do happen.