A woman has claimed that an airline wouldn’t let her take a scheduled flight with her twins due to a rule about air travel with children.
The single parent, Amanda Bailey, shared a recent video on TikTok about the experience days before she and her three-month-old children were meant to board their flight. According to Bailey, Flair Airlines, a low-cost Canadian air carrier, wouldn’t allow her on the flight if it was just her and her children.
“So we are not allowed to fly by ourselves on Thursday, and I’m super disappointed,” she said, while wiping the tears off her face. “I didn’t think I was allowed but after calling Flair and confirming multiple times, they said it was fine. You get your hopes and you’re like: ‘I can do it. I can do it.’ And I’m packed.”
According to the Government of Canada, “the Canadian Aviation Regulations require that no passenger can be responsible for more than one infant” under the age of two. When travelling with children under two, one adult must accompany each child on the plane.
In her video, Bailey said that when she found out that she couldn’t travel with her two children, she also felt she couldn’t ask a friend or family member to join her on the flight because of the cost.
“And flights right now are ridiculous to even ask for somebody to come with me and they won’t honour a price or anything,” she explained. “So it’s just super frustrating and it just, it sucks being a single mom.”
She continued: “Not being able to do the things that you literally do on an everyday basis because of safety, but at the time it’s like, you can’t in a timely manner care for two babies.”
Bailey went on to question Canada’s rule for adults travelling with children under the age of two. “Okay, in a timely manner, how am I gonna be able to care for two two-year-olds, or a two-year-old and a three-year-old?” she added.
The single parent emphasised that not being allowed on the plane “made no sense” to her, especially as her children are still “travelling with a car seat”. She also acknowledged that if her children were two-years-old, she’d “probably still have them in a car seat”.
“To unbuckle them from a convertible car seat to an infant car seat is gonna be no different,” she continued. “My timely manner is gonna be the same. In the event of a fire…
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