One-way award with lap infant

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by Ben Schlappig Guest July 4, 2018, 11:55 am

One-way award with lap infant

Anonymous Guest
July 4, 2018, 11:55 am

My wife and I have booked some upcoming travel using Flying Blue miles from ORD-AMS in business class. In attempting to add our daughter as an infant-in-arms ticket, they are trying to charge us 10% of the one-way gouge rate (the round trip cost is about 60% of the one-way). Is there anything we can do here?
David W Community Ambassador
July 5, 2018, 11:52 am

That’s the rule for infants traveling on an award ticket for some programs, one of which is FlyingBlue – [URL]https://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2014/09/17/infant-award-travel/[/URL]

I’m not sure what you can do to get around the 10%. Maybe ask if you can have the infant with you if you purchase a separate round trip flight for her?
Bossman New Member
July 6, 2018, 1:13 pm

[QUOTE=”Dan Marks, post: 59007″]My wife and I have booked some upcoming travel using Flying Blue miles from ORD-AMS in business class. In attempting to add our daughter as an infant-in-arms ticket, they are trying to charge us 10% of the one-way gouge rate (the round trip cost is about 60% of the one-way). Is there anything we can do here?[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately this seems to be pretty standard on international carriers…I think the last time we were in this situation (on BA) they let us cover the 10% with Avios rather than cash.

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