However, airlines recognize this problem and provide some incentives for families with small children to keep them traveling on airplanes.

One such incentive is directly targeted at reducing travel costs.  Some airlines offer as much as 50% discounts for seats assigned to babies.  Check with your airline to determine your options for obtaining reduced airfare for your children.

Airlines classify an infant as a child under 2 years old.  On domestic flights an infant traveling as a lap child usually travels free.  On long international flights, it is common for an infant to pay as low as 10% of an adult fare when flying as a lap child.  Check with your airline to determine discounts that they honor.

Discounts for seats assigned to children ages 2 to 11 years old vary according by airline.  Before you decide that it is too expensive to take that distant vacation because you must pay for your small children to fly, contact your airline to determine your eligible discounts.  You may find out that it is not too expensive after all. 

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 Flying Kids Mission

As parents, we are responsible for molding our precious babies into well rounded adults who have an appreciation for the variety of opportunities that they have available to them as they grow and develop as individuals.  Exposing children to varying geographical locations and cultures around the world is an important teaching method that many parents have the option to use for developing generations of culturally aware future leaders who have childhood experiences that help them understand and personally relate to global issues.  It is the mission of Flying Rugrats to arm parents with information about flying with children, toddlers or infants strategies in an effort to dispel fear or apprehension about family travel so that families may travel freely and better educate our future world citizens through positive travel experiences.