Long Haul Flights w/Kids

Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids, Part 4: Packing List & Last Thoughts

August 3, 2009
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If you are just joining the Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids series, please start at Part 1. This final installment will talk about my packing list, some random last thoughts and business class seating. We had the privilege of flying long haul in Cathay Pacific business class in February. This is a photo from that flight of La Jolla Girl in her “pod” complete with DVD player, half eaten cheese plate on tray, [...]

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Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids, Part 3: Sleep on the Plane & Gear

July 26, 2009
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If you are new to the Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids series, start first by reading Part 1 and Part 2. If your baby needs a bassinet, you’ll be in the bulkhead.  The bassinet unfortunately takes up quite a bit of your space, even in business class.  I’m sure it’s possible, but it doesn’t seem to be something that you can plop up and down or takeaway as you need or don’t need it.  [...]

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Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids, Part 2: What to Bring

July 20, 2009
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This photo is of La Jolla Girl standing at the edge of her reclined seat watching Handy Manny on the airplane TV. She did this for hours on a long haul flight and was 17 months old.  To start from the beginning of this Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids series, please see part 1. Cleaning: The first thing I do when I get to our airplane seats, is take an antibacterial wet wipe [...]

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Long Haul Airplane Travel With Young Kids, Part 1: Planning Flight & Jet Lag

July 13, 2009
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I didn’t sleep well for the prior week before my first flight (which happened to be a long haul flight) with La Jolla Girl from Hong Kong to LAX. She was 3 months old, the distance was far and I was scared out of my mind. Especially, because I booked my flight last minute, we also had to connect in Tokyo. So we flew Hong Kong – Tokyo – LAX and then had a car ride [...]

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