Flying home

Reading Liz's blog about her vacation (wait a minute, you ARE on 1 year vacation now anyways Liz..hahaah:) ), reminded me about the crazy cost we have to pay to fly back home to Indo.

To fly International, kids under 2 still have to pay some fee, compared to domestic; US and Canada I guess; where kids under 2 can fly for free. The cost for infants is approx. 10% of the regular ticket price. And the regular price isn't the price that you would've paid as an adult. I guess travel agencies have deals with airlines or something that at the end, the price that we pay to the travel agencies are actually a discounted one. So last year, when we took Kairo home, his ticket costed around $300; that means the regular ticket price for an adult is around $3K..thank goodness for travel agencies.

Now after they turned 2, there's this fee called Child fare which is pretty much 80% or so of your adult discounted price. That's crazy!!!! So the difference between flying a 23 month old and a 24 month old is approximately $800.

But then of course, if you are paying infant fare, your child has to sit on your lap. It's such a dilema, since no toddler would sit on a seat, let alone on your lap for 10 hours straight. At least a seat has a seatbelt, so you can sort of force them to sit down for few minutes before they throw tantrums and every other passangers start giving you dirty looks:) But at least he can nap there and you can sort of have your hands free (unless you have another infant in which case might as well stay home and cry...hehhe...just kidding:) )

All in all, the conclusion is that if you will take your 2 year olds, you will have to pay that extra $800 or so, for JUST IN CASE he needs to nap. We just can't win..:(

So yeah, we are not going home this year. I remember the last time Shun and I flew back from Indo for my sister's wedding,we were watching tons of movies, cuddling, sleeping , playing games, basically doing whatever the heck we wanted to do. Gone are those days now..:) Oh well...