Infant car bed

We have an infant car bed; does anyone know if these are allowed on
commercial airlines? It has only a 3-point harness; is that the
current standard for this type of child restraint?

Pologirl wrote:
We have an infant car bed; does anyone know if these are allowed on
commercial airlines? It has only a 3-point harness; is that the
current standard for this type of child restraint?

This is absolutely no help whatsoever, but I know that on the British
Airways upperclass they would put infants in *their* car-bed carriers.
I've heard that the costco-variety car-bed is permitted on American
airlines, but this is just anecdotal....Perhaps give the airlines a
call?

Geez, I'm so very happy that you and the little one will be going
home.

Caledonia

Pologirl wrote:
We have an infant car bed; does anyone know if these are allowed on
commercial airlines? It has only a 3-point harness; is that the
current standard for this type of child restraint?

In the US, the airlines check the car seat for the red FAA approval
notice. If the car seat has it, then it is OK. It is usually in small
red print mixed in among lots of other notices on one of the many
stickers on the car seat. I always try to remember where it is on each
car seat so I can quickly point it out when challenged. On some
flights they have checked several times, on others not at all.

--Betsy

In the US, the airlines check the car seat for the red FAA approval
notice. If the car seat has it, then it is OK. It is usually in small
red print mixed in among lots of other notices on one of the many
stickers on the car seat. I always try to remember where it is on each
car seat so I can quickly point it out when challenged. On some
flights they have checked several times, on others not at all.

this is correct, I was doing a lot of searching for this a couple of weeks
ago as we were travelling on a US airline with a British car seat, without
that sticker it was a case of flight attendant approval and all they asked
was is it suitable for air planes, to which we said yes.

My concern about an infant car bed would be the size, don't they lie across
two seats when in a car? or is it one of the ones that can also bend in the
middle and be rear facing?

http://www.saferidenews.com/html/Airplane_Eng.htm is quite helpful, it says
the width must be less than 16 inches, but nothing about 3 point v 5 point,
I'm fairly sure our infant seat was only 3 point, and we used that on planes
no problem.

Anne

Anne Rogers wrote:
In the US, the airlines check the car seat for the red FAA approval
notice. If the car seat has it, then it is OK. It is usually in
small red print mixed in among lots of other notices on one of the
many stickers on the car seat. I always try to remember where it is
on each car seat so I can quickly point it out when challenged. On
some flights they have checked several times, on others not at all.

this is correct, I was doing a lot of searching for this a couple of
weeks ago as we were travelling on a US airline with a British car
seat, without that sticker it was a case of flight attendant approval
and all they asked was is it suitable for air planes, to which we
said yes.
My concern about an infant car bed would be the size, don't they lie
across two seats when in a car? or is it one of the ones that can
also bend in the middle and be rear facing?

http://www.saferidenews.com/html/Airplane_Eng.htm is quite helpful,
it says the width must be less than 16 inches, but nothing about 3
point v 5 point, I'm fairly sure our infant seat was only 3 point,
and we used that on planes no problem.

Anne

I've never heard of an infant car bed. Strange.
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I've never heard of an infant car bed. Strange.

I was unfamiliar with the term, but it seems it is a seat such as

http://www.babyworld.co.uk/informati...uct.asp?id=178

which can be used either lieing flat across two seats, or like a regular
baby bucket seat, there are other brands such as

http://naturalbaby.stores.yahoo.net/noname5.html

which doesn't appear to be able to be used in other positions and I'd doubt
if you could use it on an airplane, though the page says it has passed
airline safety tests, I just can't work out how it would fit!

Anne

http://carseats.babycatalog.com/infa...-ride-22022FSM

the cosco one is definitely not suitable for use on airplanes, scroll down
to the bottom.

Pologirl, what infant car bed do you have?


Anne

Anne Rogers wrote:
I've never heard of an infant car bed. Strange.

I was unfamiliar with the term, but it seems it is a seat such as

http://www.babyworld.co.uk/informati...uct.asp?id=178

which can be used either lieing flat across two seats, or like a
regular baby bucket seat, there are other brands such as

http://naturalbaby.stores.yahoo.net/noname5.html

which doesn't appear to be able to be used in other positions and I'd
doubt if you could use it on an airplane, though the page says it has
passed airline safety tests, I just can't work out how it would fit!

Anne

Yeah, I looked it up after reading the thread. I can't imagine that you
could use it on an airplane, without at least buying two seats.
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Anne Rogers wrote:
I've never heard of an infant car bed. Strange.

I was unfamiliar with the term, but it seems it is a seat such as

http://www.babyworld.co.uk/informati...uct.asp?id=178

which can be used either lieing flat across two seats, or like a regular
baby bucket seat, there are other brands such as

http://naturalbaby.stores.yahoo.net/noname5.html

which doesn't appear to be able to be used in other positions and I'd doubt
if you could use it on an airplane, though the page says it has passed
airline safety tests, I just can't work out how it would fit!

Anne

I know that NICU babies who can't pass a car seat test or who have a
medical problem preventing regular car seat use the car beds sometimes.
I have no idea about on an airplane though.

Sharalyn
mom to Alexander James (9/21/01)

Anne Rogers wrote:
the cosco one is definitely not suitable for use on airplanes

Yes, and that's what I have. We used it in the taxi "home" yesterday.
Probably the car bed is much safer than just holding the baby, but it
doesn't seem nearly as safe as a regular car seat.

The baby is not comfortable yet in a regular car seat, because her
surgical incision runs from point to point of her buttocks. I expect
we will use the car bed for the next week or two.