flying w/o a car seat

[Portia]

One thing about the car seat - if you are flying on CX on planes with the new seats, the car seat will not fit. The new seats have an airbag attached to the seat belt which is too big to fit the car seat as you have to thread the seat belt through the car seat. Nobody from CX told us this before we boarded the plane earlier this month so we lugged our car seat to the plane for nothing when we could have checked it in!

With the CARES flight harness, I emailed the company about two months ago to find out if they would fit the new CX economy seats (fixed shell seats), but they never replied to me. This seems to be a good option if it works.

 

[Sleuth]

One thing about the car seat - if you are flying on CX on planes with the new seats, the car seat will not fit. The new seats have an airbag attached to the seat belt which is too big to fit the car seat as you have to thread the seat belt through the car seat. Nobody from CX told us this before we boarded the plane earlier this month so we lugged our car seat to the plane for nothing when we could have checked it in!

With the CARES flight harness, I emailed the company about two months ago to find out if they would fit the new CX economy seats (fixed shell seats), but they never replied to me. This seems to be a good option if it works.

We should have our flight harness soon, so we'll see.

Couldn't you use a seat belt extender on the new CX seats?

 

[carang]

i took my, then 2 year old, and my, then, 5 week old to canada BY MYSELF (36 hours door-to-door) last year. there was no way i could have handled a car seat. i had no problem with my 2 year old. he was EXCEPTIONALLY well behaved. the flight departed hk at 8am, so i had A LOT of entertaining to do. the tvs in the backs of the seats were a god-send!

it really all depends on the child. my son was awesome without a car seat, but when we go to australia this coming october, my daughter will be a nightmare without it. we didn't pay for a seat for her, so we don't have the option of taking a car seat for her.

good luck!

 

[Portia]

Sleuth - I don't think the seat belt extender will work with the car seat in the new CX seat. Although you might be able to thread the seat belt extender through the car seat, you wouldn't be able to tighten the seat belt enough to hold the car seat firmly against the plane seat, at least not with my car seat.

Please do let me know how the CARES flight harness works out for you as it looks like a really good option.