Under-2’s in First – booking question

[alig4th]

All. Hoping you all can help.

I’m looking at reward seats for us (myself, wife, 5yo and under-2yo) in First to the USA. I know under-2s can have their own seat if we want to book that, but they’d actually be a lap infant here. In the BA App rewards search function, searching for “two adults, one child” brings up a lot more results than “two adults, one child, one infant”.

My question is:
– is the app here assuming the infant would have their own seat (i.e. looking for 4 available seats, not three)? Or is there some restriction/limitation/ban on having lap infants in First (and they have to have their own seat)?

TIA

[Vit]

Hi, not sure if you’re trying to use any amex voucher in combination with your booking. In my experiences with booking First, it was easy enough to just book for 2 adults (or in your case 2 adults + 1 child). Then called to add 1 infant. It is 10% in tax+fees (if I am not mistaken) and 10% avios. You can also have all details of your infant saved in your BAEC account so the CS agent can just pull it through. 🙂

Also since you will have booked First, you can call up YouFirst line which in my case got answered straight away.

Hope this helps.

[Richie]

BA First cabins do have bassinets for infants, always consider that the bassinets may be on the small side.

The cabin is generally 8 seats only. You may get more options on A380 routes which are 14 seats.

[alig4th]

Thanks both.

Good to know bassinets exist (although ours will almost certainly be too big for a bassinet) as that suggests their own seat is not a requirement.

Yes, we were probably going to call (mostly so BA IT charges us the 10% rate), and there is (currently) three Avios seats on the route(s) we’re looking at; unsure what plane it is but that makes less of a difference to us Vs having availability.

[Richie]

The expected aircraft type is sometimes detailed near the flight number on BA.com.

BTW The maps on Aerolopa.com show bassinet positions.

[alig4th]

Richie wrote:

The expected aircraft type is sometimes detailed near the flight number on BA.com.

BTW The maps on Aerolopa.com show bassinet positions.

Thanks. As I say, we won’t need an actual bassinet seat, and I’m less bothered by what type of plane we’re on. It’s more about confirmed availability for the three seats (and a flight time that works with the kids)