Can you take booster seats on easyjet?

clairehi

Hi all
we are flying with Easyjet from Gatwick to La Rochelle in August and hiring a car at the other end.
the cheapest car hire is Europcar via Easyjet website but they charge £43 to rent a booster seat or child car seat:eek:

I believe I need 2 of these seats as I have 2 children age 7 and 9. the 9 yr old does not need a booster under UK law (too tall). However, from the AA website, all children under 10 in France must have a booster seat (and travel in the back of the car).

we could possibly take our own booster seats with us but I am unsure of airline regs. could we take them as carry on if the children sit on them on board (do standard UK car booster seats fit on narrow airline seats?)

havent been abroad for a few years so no experience of this can anyone help?

thanks

dangers

We went to Italy last year with Easyjet. Our booster seats were packed into a holdall for the journey out (we have spares!), but on the way back, if we had wanted to put them into the hold, then we would have had to pay for extra hold luggage. We then struggled (and succeeded) in getting them back into the holdall.
I was a little annoyed as I had asked in Bristol before we left as to whether they would carry them foc. Yes was the answer!
By the way, we went to La Rochelle a couple of years ago - it is a very small, quaint airport!

ChasingButterflies

Hi,

We always take the kids car seats out with us (not flown with easyjet though) I purchased a large (cheap!) holdall and the car seats go in there and are easily accessable when you arrive and easy to pack up when you drop off the hire car on the way back.

I really don't think you are allowed to "use" them on the plane.

I am not sure if you would be allowed to put them in the hold (although I would advise against it) On the way home one year when dd2 was tiny and in car seat with click base I couldn't get the click base and 2 booster seats in the bag on the homebound flight. So they told me not to worry and take the base to the other desk by the time I got it back at the other end it was damaged (cracked) and I had to buy another one :rolleyes: Europcar have brought down their car seat charges since the last time I used them :rotfl: (that was the year before I started taking our own :rotfl:)

Have a great holiday!

liz-paul

They would def be able to take them as hand luggage if they didn't have bags. You can take a pushchair OR car seat free of chagre in the hold when travelling with young children but not sure about older ones like yours.... Not sure what the rules would be if the kids had a bag & a booster seat each but it probably wouldn't be a problem.

Although saying that Gatwick did have a really strict one item of hand baggage per person no exceptions which was enforced by security not the airlines. I think this has relaxed in recent times though....

clairehi

Wow, you'd need a big holdall to fit our booster seats in - they are quite bulky and I am not sure would fit in a piece of carry-on, but I will check.

edited to add: max dimensions of carry-on re 55 x 40 x 20cm so I will check but think the seats may betoo large to be allowable.

ChasingButterflies

Hi again,

Sorry I might have caused confusion?!

When I said about not putting seats in the hold I meant without any protection... i.e. ours nornally go in a bag with bubble wrap/blanket wrapped round them.

We have holiday car seats (britax horizon booster cushions) which have been picked up when on special offer etc. Rather than the high-back boosters they normally have at home... Also handy to pop in Granny's car/when friends come over etc.

When we had to fit in the "baby seat" and boosters we had a large (think cricket bag) size holdall like this http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2850928/Trail/searchtext%3EHOLDALL.htm or smaller one http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2850928/Trail/searchtext%3EHOLDALL.htm

Info about car seats here http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Book/regulations.html#infants Scroll down to point 13 and then read the bit after Passports.

busiscoming2

We flew back from majorca with easyjet a couple of weeks ago and the family sitting in front of me had 2 booster seats as hand luggage, whether this was part of their allowance or extra I don't know but they went in the overhead locker. (didn't see what else they had).

dangers

Our booster seats that have flown with us on four occasions now are normal Britax ones (the previous times we flew with BA and we tied the two together and they were put with other car seats and oversized(!) luggage.