Infant ticket for Business and First Classes

[kamchatsky]

Can someone here advise whether the size of the bassinet for First Class is larger than Business Class which is larger than Economy? Or are they all the same size?


If they are the same size, I wonder why airlines can charge 10% of the ticket for higher classes? Surely if the size of bassinet is the same, they should just charge the 10% of economy seat, regardless of class travelled. I mean the airlines are not going to provide gourmet 3 course meal in J/F for infants.


If it is different size, does F/C bassinets are that much better that warrants much higher prices than Y infant fare? What other features of F/C services that the infant will experience during the flight? What can justify airlines charging so much more for infants?


So background on this: I just redeemed 2 * J JL772 SYD-NRT on AA using 90K miles. This is the first time I am travelling internationally with infant. I need to add a ticket for edison junior:
- AA does not do point redemption for in lap infants.
- Whilst QF does allow inlap infant award for 0 (zero) points + tax (I praise QF for this!) but it requires booking with an existing QF ticket stock for adult, which in this case it isn't. Also there is no QF21 available for redemption in the months I wanted.
- JAL Mileage Bank charges full award points for infants that takes a seat, or pay 10% of fare for in-laps. Likewise for CX Asia Miles.


So AA was originally going to charge me for $650USD for edison junior ticket. I ended up calling JAL to have infant ticket issued for $459AUD. It is of course expensive and it is just the rules.


I did talk to my better half to checkin edison junior to luggage or carry on (well we do have a lot of luggage allowance), but decided against it on humanitarian grounds

I have more legs to book in this trip, and now i am thinking of doing it to minimise cost of edison junior especially I want to fly F before edison junior turns 2 which I will need a lot more points everytime I travel.

 

[eric2011]

I did talk to my better half to checkin edison junior to luggage or carry on (well we do have a lot of luggage allowance), but decided against it on humanitarian grounds

All I can say is......Keep trying. HaHa LOL
If I recall correctly a couple of years ago a Jet* steward put an infant in the overhead luggage compartment so we know it is doable.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

there are additional service elements that come with higher classes of travel, and presumably the fare reflects that. if you want a bottle heated in first class you aren't going to have to wait as long for a crew member to come see you as you are in economy. 10% of the applicable cabin fare seems reasonable.

 

[docjames]

$459 doesnt sound bad really.

The QF "taxes" would be somewhere around that mark i'd hazard a guess anyway.

 

[kamchatsky]

$459 doesnt sound bad really.

The QF "taxes" would be somewhere around that mark i'd hazard a guess anyway.

I just did a dummy QF21 SYD-NRT J redemption with and without infants sometime in 2014. Worked out it costs $175 for the infant itself. Of course it costs 72K QFF points + $256 per person for adult redemption, vs 45K AA miles + 104USD in taxes and service fees. So I guess it all balanced out.

 

[kamchatsky]

there are additional service elements that come with higher classes of travel, and presumably the fare reflects that. if you want a bottle heated in first class you aren't going to have to wait as long for a crew member to come see you as you are in economy. 10% of the applicable cabin fare seems reasonable.

Whilst I understand I don't have to wait long for crew member to heat up the bottle on J/F, I still not that convinced they can charge that much more for infant when the bassinet is the same. But of course they are the rules.