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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a car seat safety nazi, so ignore this advice if you want.  Checking the car seat isn’t safe, you have no idea how much happens to it while checked.  Nor is renting the seat, same idea but you don’t know if it’s been in an accident.  I have a 3yo.  I have a travel car seat, graco contender, that I also have straps that hook it to the suitcase with.  I just travelled alone, with kid, car seat and suitcase.  Total pain in the arse, but not really that awful.  I used the seat on the plane, easiest to install with seat belt extender.  [/quote]

Gate checking the seat gets around these (unfounded, I think) concerns about 5e seat being damaged while checked.[/quote]

I wish this were the case, but on our last flight, they threw all of the gate-checked strollers and car seats in the plane next to us from the ground level into the cargo bay, where they just landed in a big pile. I was pretty aghast (since we had just checked our stroller on own flight!) That's not to say that a seat that gets thrown around is necessarily going to get damaged, but it's definitely not good for the seat, which is why the car seat manufacturers recommend against it. I do think it's probably true that it will get thrown around less if gate checked than if checked as luggage. But it does still get thrown around, at least on some airlines.[/quote]

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