infant carrier base on airplane?

[tjmw2727]

I've been sending my mother after them (my parents are travelling with us and actually used their miles to purchase some of the tickets)... she's much more doggedly determined and vicious than I am! They have played with the seats more than once... we just need to check whether the latest incarnation has two seats together with one being the window! Keep your fingers crossed for us!

Actually that's good, the more people traveling in your group the more likely you are to get what you need even if you have to swtich amoung yourselves. Unfortunately the further away your trip is the more likely it is to happen again. Every time there is a change, even a small one the computers seem to re-assign seats.

TJ

 

[camlace]

Not sure why many posters are insisting the carseat needs to go in the window seat? The carseat can go in a middle seat if there is no one in the window seat and/or if a member of your party sits in the window seat.

From jetBlue's website:
In addition, the following guidelines will be observed:
an infant safety seat cannot occupy an exit row seat nor an aisle seat.
an infant safety seat should be placed in a window seat; it may be placed in a
middle seat as long as the window seat remains empty.
infant safety seats may not be placed between two individuals.
only one lap infant will be assigned per row of seats on each side of the
aircraft.
any infant seat used during flight must remain secured to the passenger seat
at all times, even when unoccupied.

From Delta's website:
If a child is placed in a restraint occupying the middle seat of a single-aisle aircraft, the accompanying adult has to sit at the window seat, unless the window seat remains vacant throughout the flight. This is so other passengers can easily access the aisle.

I agree with the PP, the airline will need to give you 2 seats together at a window, but they do not have to give you the 3rd seat adjacent.

 

[MaleficentFan]

Given the status of air travel today I think the general assumption is that most flights are full and that there will be no empty seat, much less one at the window. I know the last three times we went to Disney our planes were full going down and coming back. It's a fairly popular destination (as we Disers well know!) so I doubt there will be any empty seats. That's why I'm concerned about making sure we have at least 2 seats together with one at the window. We know that they do not have to guarantee us three seats together... we're just frustrated because we booked our flight very early and originally had three seats together. We got the shaft when the airline changed the plane and decided to split us up. I just want to handle it asap so that it doesn't end up with me on the plane having paid for a seat for dd and not being able to use it becuase Continental lacks common sense. (Hello Continental... she has the same last name as we do and we have to give you her age when we bought the tickets... how did you think she was going to fly? )

 

[Nanu57v]

Not sure why many posters are insisting the carseat needs to go in the window seat? The carseat can go in a middle seat if there is no one in the window seat and/or if a member of your party sits in the window seat.

Well I was assuming the window seat was occupied. The way the flight attendant explained it to me (not the mistaken one who thought DD should be FF), we couldn't put her in the middle because the person in the window seat would have to climb over the seat in the event of an emergency landing. Its so tight the person in front of us couldn't even recline.

 

[NotUrsula]

The way that the FAA words the regulation, the carseat may not "impede egress" from the row. Most airlines interpret that as must be in the window position so that no one has to crawl over it in an emergency.

Delta is an exception; they seem to feel that as long as the person being impeded is family, somehow it's OK

 

[jujashmom]

We have taken 4 trips with DD in her first year and have not taken the base...just the car seat itself.

We flew Southwest every time and had to put the carseat in the window seat, so it wouldn't block the row--even with one of us in the seat.