Hey all,
Wanted to share a recent experience I had with Qantas traveling with my almost 3 year old in Y.
We did a trip PER-BNE, traveling there on Qantas and returning on Virgin.
I normally travel solo or with the wife as I like the quiet / downtime in the air but it was time for a family getaway so the little one came with this time.
Having never flown domestically with her before I was quite nervous on how it would go, would she sit in her chair for the almost 5 hour flight, would she cry / scream and annoy the other passengers.
The flight there turned out to be really good, she sat in the chair, slept, ate and didn't cry at all so I was pretty happy with the outcome. The flight attendant was amazing, he came over and offered her a pillow to sleep on, I asked it they have any blankets and he brought one over, offered her juice and warm milk when we were stretching our legs in the galley. At meal time she got a kids pack with various snacks and a hot meal.
The return flight we took Virgin, I like traveling with them due to the complimentary lounge access but a big mistake on my part this time was not checking as it takes half an hour longer BNE-PER on Virgin than it does on Qantas, no idea why that is but my fault for not checking.
Return flight we sit down, we asked for a pillow / blanket and are told they don't offer that on domestic flights, we got no kids pack and no child meal. We put the little one down for a nap over 2 seats and the wife stood in the back galley and was told she had to go and sit down as she wasn't allowed there.
If I was traveling solo both flights would been about the same but with a child I don't think il fly anything other than Qantas domestically from now on. I am not sure if what we experienced is normal but the overall experience of the two traveling with a child was very different.
Just some info on our experience the other weekend for anyone looking at traveling interstate with small kids.
Wanted to share a recent experience I had with Qantas traveling with my almost 3 year old in Y.
We did a trip PER-BNE, traveling there on Qantas and returning on Virgin.
I normally travel solo or with the wife as I like the quiet / downtime in the air but it was time for a family getaway so the little one came with this time.
Having never flown domestically with her before I was quite nervous on how it would go, would she sit in her chair for the almost 5 hour flight, would she cry / scream and annoy the other passengers.
The flight there turned out to be really good, she sat in the chair, slept, ate and didn't cry at all so I was pretty happy with the outcome. The flight attendant was amazing, he came over and offered her a pillow to sleep on, I asked it they have any blankets and he brought one over, offered her juice and warm milk when we were stretching our legs in the galley. At meal time she got a kids pack with various snacks and a hot meal.
The return flight we took Virgin, I like traveling with them due to the complimentary lounge access but a big mistake on my part this time was not checking as it takes half an hour longer BNE-PER on Virgin than it does on Qantas, no idea why that is but my fault for not checking.
Return flight we sit down, we asked for a pillow / blanket and are told they don't offer that on domestic flights, we got no kids pack and no child meal. We put the little one down for a nap over 2 seats and the wife stood in the back galley and was told she had to go and sit down as she wasn't allowed there.
If I was traveling solo both flights would been about the same but with a child I don't think il fly anything other than Qantas domestically from now on. I am not sure if what we experienced is normal but the overall experience of the two traveling with a child was very different.
Just some info on our experience the other weekend for anyone looking at traveling interstate with small kids.
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