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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, we always use a car seat on a plane.  Our 3 yo is getting big enough that she could safely sit in one of those airplane harnesses, but we don't want to check the car seat and have it banged around in the checked bag process.  Get a wheeled cart that the seat straps onto for taking it around the airport -- something like Go-Go Babyz, though there are many brands.

We have flown with a Chicco Nextfit rear facing and a Scenera NEXT rear facing.  When it's rear-facing they barely fit (Chicco fit a little better) and the person in front cannot recline his seat.  On the other hand, the child can more easily sleep (very difficult forward facing, because the seat is so upright) and cannot kick the seat in front.  Another thing to remember is convertible seats are heavy, and you have to carry (not wheel) them down the aisle.

On our most recent flight we bought a very lightweight forward-facing (harnessed booster) seat and used that for the whole trip, even though our kid is still RF at home.  Overall it worked fine, but our kid could not nap in it (misery as we had booked a redeye) and really couldn't help bumping the seat with her feet because of the height/position -- that is, she wasn't *kicking* but the passenger ahead still felt every jolt.  I felt like the person in front would have resented us no matter what we did.[/quote]

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