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Anyone travelled recently within europe on ba or similar airline and know how baggage restrictions work when you have your bags, baby, buggy and car seat?? Im baffled by the website info? Seems to suggest you get only the same allowance as normal when travelling w imfant (ie no allocation for them?) - i think a suitcase plus 1 piece of hand carryon luggage - so do i pay extra for checking a car seat? And what about a buggy? I think i can take to the gate - is that definitely the case w a buggaboo type buggy? How in the world im going to fit all his clothes, my clothes, toys, and huge amounts of baby stuff in 1 bag is beyond me!


Will try ringing ba to double check but i thought i might get more sense out of this forum!

We're booked to fly with BA in a couple of weeks. We have been told that we have a full baggage allowance (hand and checked in) for Baby Knomester who is 8 months. We can also take his carseat and buggy at no extra cost and can take the buggy up to the gate with us.


Hope this helps!

Hmmm don't know about BA but on Manu airlines you don't get a baggage allowance for a baby unless you've book a seat in their name. You can book & pay for extra hold baggage if need be, but IME I am prone to pack too much & with the restriction if sharing I usually get it about right.


Easyjet will take a travel cot or car seat as a FOC extra so if they do I'm sure airlines like BA do to (I think it's either or, plus a buggy not all 3 however.


Handluggage is tricky as I always wanted a change bag as well, in the end I made sure I could squash it into my main hand luggage if the queried it, but they didn't say anything.


I would phone & check on the hold luggage to be safe if you want to check in a bag each.


Happy travels!

We flew BA to the US in Feb so not sure if it is different for Europe but free allowance for the baby was a buggy and a car seat and on bag, we also had a travel cot and this classed as the one piece of luggage for the baby and the rest of her stuff was just in the other bags. The cot itself weighed 10 kg. They were a little vague on how much this could weigh. One thing to look out for is that they now have some odd policy in place that means that each individual bag cannot weigh more than 23 kg or something else they charge you ?40 a bag. The guy who checked us in had a 2 year old so was very forgiving when most of our bags weighed around 23-24 kg and gave us a chance to swap luggage around to avoid fess.


I did phone them in the rum up to it several times about seating, meals, carrying expressed breast milk etc etc and found them to be really helpful...

Buggy thing depends on airport not airline. most places you take it to gate, some (stockholm arlanda) you have to check it in and they lend you one to take through (but this doesnt count towards your check in allowance).


Can't remember if BA give you check in baggage for little one, but you definitely get one piece of carry on (changing bag) and I think BA now don't count your handbag as your one piece of luggage.

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