If it’s been a while since your last flight with your young child, you’ll have one more thing to look forward to as you pass through airport security points within the U.S. Children 12 years and younger are no longer required to remove their shoes. When I think of the absurd moments of travel over…
When setting out to travel with a baby, it can be tempting to pack everything including the kitchen sink—or at least the infant bathtub that fits it. And when you’ll be flying with your baby, what more logical place could there be to keep it all than in your diaper bag? That is, until…
Using an airline bassinet on an upcoming long haul flight? Take note of this traveler’s tale and heed these tips — and remember, there’s A LOT more advice and information in the Flying with a Baby or Toddler Advice Index! Last week I heard from a mother preparing to fly with SAS from the United…
It was somewhere between the twelfth and twentieth lap I made around the aircraft, bouncing my wired-and-overtired baby in my arms as she elected to not sleep on the overnight flight to Paris, that I realized I would pay a goodly sum to any qualified person on my flight to take over while I snoozed….
One good reason to wear your baby facing forward? Blowing kisses to the crowd to pass the time in the airport line. Come on grouchy travelers, tell me you don’t want to see this baby boarding your flight? The girls were heartsick, however, after SO MUCH FUN in Jamaica and having to leave the vacation nannies they’d…
This is the third post in the “Fit more travel into your family’s new year” series this month. If you missed the earlier posts, you can start here. Following last week’s post: “Get (at least) one roundtrip flight with a mileage credit card,” I want to address one of the other best ways I’ve learned…