Toni Perkins
Level 2 Member
Has anyone here had an experience booking a future flight for an unborn child on an award ticket? I've googled the crud out of it, and I know that if you actually buy the ticket and fly with the airline you purchased the ticket through, you can do a sort of dummy booking and then they can change the name, birthdate, etc. once the baby is born. Unfortunately, there is no info on booking with an award ticket, and when I spoke with a few AA reps yesterday, we are trying to book a flight to SYD on Qantas, they said that since I am not actually flying with AA, there is no way they can change the info at a later date.
I could just take her as a lap infant, but it's a 17 hour flight, and that just sounds like the worst kind of torture I can think of. Not to mention having her in a carseat is just much safer.
I also thought about booking two seats for myself, have her as a "lap infant" and then just put her in the other seat. I know that very large people or people with certain needs are able to book two seats for themselves. I can't see why I couldn't just do that. The only potential problem I can see there is that the airline will not let me bring the carseat on board, which would basically defeat the entire purpose of booking the extra seat because she will only be around 6 months old, so it's not like she can just sit in the extra seat without a carseat and hang out.
If all else fails, I can just book the seats I need and then hope that in December when she is born and has a birthdate I can find award availability for her on the same flight, not likely, or just take her as a lap infant and be miserable for 17 plus hours twice! Anyway, if anyone has any experience or advice, I would love to hear it! Thanks!
I could just take her as a lap infant, but it's a 17 hour flight, and that just sounds like the worst kind of torture I can think of. Not to mention having her in a carseat is just much safer.
I also thought about booking two seats for myself, have her as a "lap infant" and then just put her in the other seat. I know that very large people or people with certain needs are able to book two seats for themselves. I can't see why I couldn't just do that. The only potential problem I can see there is that the airline will not let me bring the carseat on board, which would basically defeat the entire purpose of booking the extra seat because she will only be around 6 months old, so it's not like she can just sit in the extra seat without a carseat and hang out.
If all else fails, I can just book the seats I need and then hope that in December when she is born and has a birthdate I can find award availability for her on the same flight, not likely, or just take her as a lap infant and be miserable for 17 plus hours twice! Anyway, if anyone has any experience or advice, I would love to hear it! Thanks!