The_Skids
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I had a couple of flights today coming back from a vacation. The tickets were through United, but the last leg of it was on a Skywest operated flight in a CRJ 700. I was traveling with a 4 year old and she had a car seat that we carried onto the plane. We were told taxiing out that the car seat was against FAA regulations and that she could not sit in it. The plane stopped and the flight attendant took the car seat and put it in an empty seat in the front of the airplane.
My question is, was she right in doing that? I know the folks around us that had to suffer 20 minutes of crying thought that it was not right.
I have never heard of a regulation on the type of car seat that can be used, but I have only flown corporate.
The car seat did not have shoulder harnesses and used the seat belt from the seat.
Either way, the woman was extremely rude and seemed like she just had to express her power some how. It wouldn't have been as bad if one of the 4 other legs that we had been on in the previous week had done the same thing. Each time someone that took our tickets asked if we were going to check the seat, we just said she would sit in it and no one questioned anything.
Is this a case of a cabin nazi, or is there an FAA regulation against car seat without shoulder restraints?
My question is, was she right in doing that? I know the folks around us that had to suffer 20 minutes of crying thought that it was not right.
I have never heard of a regulation on the type of car seat that can be used, but I have only flown corporate.
The car seat did not have shoulder harnesses and used the seat belt from the seat.
Either way, the woman was extremely rude and seemed like she just had to express her power some how. It wouldn't have been as bad if one of the 4 other legs that we had been on in the previous week had done the same thing. Each time someone that took our tickets asked if we were going to check the seat, we just said she would sit in it and no one questioned anything.
Is this a case of a cabin nazi, or is there an FAA regulation against car seat without shoulder restraints?