[Annee]

We bought a seat for our son and brought an FAA approved carseat along for safety. We did put Jesse in the carseat on takeoff and landings but he screamed horribly the whole time! It's my understanding that the airlines don't allow you to keep your child in the bjorn or snugli during takeoff and landing - you can hold them on your lap or put them in a carseat but not in a snugli or bjorn. Can anybody confirm that?

Re the airfare for the seat: we paid about $400 for his one-way ticket this past June. We bought the ticket while in Guatemala through a partner company with Velocity Travel. If we'd bought it in the U.S. it would have cost around $1000. The travel agent brought the ticket to us at the Marriott. Also, you have to make sure the name on the ticket matches EXACTLY the name on your child's passport, so we thought it safer to wait to book the seat until after we had the actual passport in our own hands.