SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

[daft009]

I was planning on flying my family SYD-SIN-CPH in SQ business class. There are 4 of us, two kids aged 2 and 5. However it seems very tricky looking after the 2 year old in J. Modern business class seats have so much privacy, which is fantastic, however it would probably work against us.

We flew J last time we went to Europe but that's 3 years ago and we only have a lap-infant. Much easier to wrangle.

I'm thinking now we just go PE instead, and break up the trip a bit more. I welcome any input from anyone who has flown with a 2 year old in the SQ J cabins.

Yeah they'll spend more time in your seat than theirs. No point going J. 3-4yo onwards they should manage in J.

From memory SQ PE the arm rests don't go up so the 2yo will not be able to lie across seats in your lap... Just double check . Been ages since I flew SQ PE

 

[blackcat20]

@Lost Redditor we've done it with 2 and 4 year olds. Its doable, but you do end up getting up a lot to assist, so its not the most relaxing (unless they fall asleep). We set ourselves up so that it was one kid next to one adult, but then an adult behind that kid, and a kid behind the adult. So the person behind/in front could get up to help, while the person next to could also assist.

 

[FlyingFiona]

From memory SQ PE the arm rests don't go up so the 2yo will not be able to lie across seats in your lap... Just double check . Been ages since I flew SQ PE

When I last flew them (years back) and sat in D the arm rests between E and F go up. (I had flown Y MEL-SIN then PE SIN-CDG and both legs was neighbourless. I thought that Y was better in this instance because I actually had more space and could shift around to sleep better in Y than I could in PE with the fixed arm rests.)