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Traveling with 4 month old..?

She is going to be sitting on my lap but i need to bring her car seat on this trip since we are driving back and i was wondering are you allowed to gate check car seats? I know you can strollers but im not bringing a stroller so can i gate check the car seat or do i have to check it in like luggage I’m flying american airlines, but couldnt find a number to contact them!

I know that now airlines are being very strict with hand luggage, you’d definately have to take advice from the airline on this one. I have seen lots of people check in their car seats with their luggage and never gate check them but that doesnt mean you cant.

If you do check it in, try to take some good plastic sheet or bag and some tape, they get very dirty on the conveyor belts.

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How The Airlines’ Poor Customer Service Is Killing The Economy

In my teens my friends and I would occasionally marvel at incoming jets at LAX, standing under them as they thunderously swooped down from the sky above our craned heads.

Wow, to have the power and freedom to fly anywhere! To be served by pleasant, smiling professionals, and to be treated as VIP’s! Heaven wasn’t above the clouds; it was sleekly swooshing through them in ease and consummate comfort in the latest technological marvel.

To be paid for the privilege, as well? Imagine that!

Yesterday, I did a roundtrip from LAX to San Francisco to teach my class, “Best Practices in Negotiation.”

It was a long day, filled with trains, planes and cars. Leaving home at 3:30 a.m. I returned at 10:30 p.m.

There was a time, not long ago, when I would commute to Sacramento in the morning, consult, and return the same evening, several days in a row. Instead of checking in and out of hotels, it actually saved time.

But now, using planes as sky buses is virtually impossible.

Between security hassles, having to allocate more time at airports, and the uncanny proclivity of airlines to make flying obnoxious, avoiding travel is much more compelling than ever.

Peter Drucker once commiserated with me by noting that as a consultant “Your business is always where you, aren’t!” We fly to work, partly because as a famous broadcaster quipped: “An expert is an ordinary person more than a hundred miles from home.”

But aversion-to-aviation is what airlines are spawning. Poor customer service dampens demand for travel. That’s bad for business: theirs and mine. Diminishing my ardor to work in far-flung places has a multiplier effect.

I earn less and spend less. I add value to fewer clients, permitting their businesses to shrink, as well. They hire fewer people, and so the spiral worsens. Now, multiply me by tens of millions that feel the same way.

When people like me expect hassles, they think twice and three times about taking to once a sufficiently friendly, but now more mean jet stream.

Carriers contend they are committed to turning a profit at any cost. But they’re failing to see that collapsing demand can doom them faster than fluctuating oil prices, or even, grave and serious as they are, security-related considerations and inconveniences.

There are significant downside risks to systematically deleting such once taken-for-granted items as blankets and pillows and hot meals, while instituting restrictions and costs for checked and carried on luggage, and most recently, requiring premium prices for legroom and aisle seats in economy sections.

Charging more for a ticket booked through a phone call instead of online, and other pinpricks, collectively are leeching the life force out of business and vacation travelers.

Airlines may never again represent freedom and luxury and escape, as they did to my pals and I.

It’s one thing to take the fun out of flying. But by making business far more difficult to perform, airlines are pilfering our profits and sapping our motivation.

It makes even the most ardent free market zealot wonder if perhaps it’s time to consider re-regulating the airlines, for the good of all.

About the Author

Dr. Gary S. Goodman is a top-ranked negotiation speaker, telemarketing speaker, and customer service speaker at Google, and a distinguished, sought-after sales speaker, motivational speaker, and attorney. President of Customersatisfaction.com, he is a frequent TV and radio commentator and the best-selling author of 12 books and more than 1,700 articles that appear in 25,000 publications. President of Customersatisfaction.com, Gary conducts seminars and speaks at convention programs around the world. His new audio program is Nightingale-Conant’s “Crystal Clear Communication: How to Explain Anything Clearly in Speech & Writing.” His web site is:http://www.customersatisfaction.com, and professional speaking, seminar, and consulting invitations can be addressed to:gary@customersatisfaction.com.

Guests name Jazeera Airways as the region’s Airline of Choice
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