travelling with babies and children

With regard to babies and children, a number of regulations apply on board, which you have to take into consideration when you make your booking.

Babies
For babies up to the age of 23 months a baby fare of € 10 per single journey applies. A number of regulations apply on board, which you have to take into consideration when you make your booking:
  • Each baby has to be accompanied by a person of 16 years old or older.
  • A baby may only be transported on the lap.
  • Because of the safety regulations, each adult may only travel with a single baby.
  • Only if you have paid for an additional separate seat for the baby at the normal fare will there be room for a Maxi Cosi, approved by ANWB or TNO, with a maximum measurement of 41 centimetres wide and 57 centimetres long. Because of their size and flight safety requirements, a car seat or travel cot is not allowed.
  • Children’s seats for cars for larger children (from 9 months) are normally not suitable for fastening onto an aircraft seat and are therefore also not accepted on board.
  • Our crew always have the right to refuse a child’s seat for a car/a travel cot/a Maxi Cosi in the interest of flight safety. Travel cots are also not allowed on board.
  • transavia.com does not have any travel cots on board.
  • Newly born babies are not allowed to travel in a pressurised cabin until seven days after their birth.
  • The birth should have taken place without any complications.
  • Premature babies are not transported.
  • A luggage allowance of 10 kg (including buggy or Maxi Cosi) applies for babies.
Children
For children from the age of 2 years, the same fare applies as for adults. If the child turns 2 during the course of the journey, you will then also have to pay the same fee as for an adult.

Children who are travelling alone
transavia.com considers a child travelling alone as being a child of 5 to 15 years old that travels without being accompanied by a person of 16 years or older. Children younger than 5 years who travel alone are not accepted on board. On each flight, a maximum applies to the number of children who may travel alone.

Children aged 5 to 11 years old:
You need to report your child to the transavia.com call centre in advance. The person who brings the child to the airport should sign a document for the transfer at the check-in counter. You can already fill in this document:
1. open the document
2. fill it in, this can be done digitally
3. print 5 times
4. bring the document to the airport

transavia.com will take care of accompanying your child to and from the plane. The purser will receive the child travelling alone on board and upon arrival at the destination will transfer the child to a local representative of transavia.com. Someone (of 16 years or older) should always be available at the airport of destination to collect the child; otherwise the child will be taken back on the flight to where he or she came from. The person who collects the child should first report to the transavia.com representative at the airport in question and sign the document for the transfer of the child. For this service, you pay € 50 per child per single journey.

Children aged 12 to 15 years old:
These children are allowed to travel alone and are not accompanied by the staff of transavia.com. But if you prefer to do so, you may also request the service as described above for your child aged from 12 to 15 years old. For this service, you pay € 50 per child per single journey.

Luggage allowance for children
Children from the age of 2 may take with them a maximum of 20 kg of hold luggage.

Buggies and prams
Only light-weight (5-7 kg) collapsible umbrella buggies may be taken with you until you reach the departure gate, after which they will be placed in the luggage hold. Other prams and buggies have to be handed in immediately at the check-in counter and are then taken directly to the aircraft.

Familiar (contagious) childhood diseases
A child who is infected with one of the (childhood) diseases described below needs to be in the possession of a medical certificate in both Dutch and English, signed by an (independent) doctor, otherwise they will not be accepted. This medical certificate has to state that the disease is not (no longer) contagious and that it is safe to fly. This requirement is there for your own safety, for the safety of your child and for the safety of other passengers and the staff. If you have any doubts, you should always consult a doctor.

The following are contagious childhood diseases:

  • Mumps
  • Whooping cough
  • Measles
  • German measles
  • The fifth disease
  • Scarlet fever
  • Chicken pox

The Baby care lounge at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
If you travel with a baby or toddler, you may use the Baby care lounge at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Here you can feed your baby or toddler or let them take a nap in one of the seven sleeping cabins. In the cabins, comfortable seats for the parents have been placed. The Baby care lounge is located on the Holland Boulevard (between lounges 2 and 3) and is open daily from 06h00 to 22h00. Entry is free of charge.

Portuguese minors who are travelling from/to Portugal
1. Minors (below the age of 18 years) who have the Portuguese nationality, who are leaving from or returning to Portugal without a father, mother or legal guardian need a travel permit. This travel permit should meet the following requirements:
  • it should be signed by both parents or legal guardian; and
  • the signature should be confirmed as genuine by a notary if the father, mother or legal guardian lives in Portugal or
  • the signature should be confirmed as being genuine by a Portuguese consulate in the country where the father, mother or legal guardian resides. This travel permit is also required if minors are accompanied by a person who is not their father, mother or legal guardian. In such cases, the travel permit should clearly state the name of the travel companion.
2. the travel permit can be requested at the Portuguese Consulate and should be done personally by both parents or legal guardian.

Address Portuguese consulate in the Netherlands:
Willemskade 18
3016 DL Rotterdam

Minors who are travelling from/to France
The following regulations apply to minors who have the French nationality and who are travelling from/to France. These regulations apply to all minors, irrespective of whether they are travelling alone or with someone accompanying them:
  • Minors (below the age of 18 years) should be able to present a national identity card or passport.
  • Minors (below the age of 18 years) who are leaving France, should have a national identity card and an authorisation document issued by the municipality to depart from the country. This document is called an ‘Attestation d'Autorisation de Sortie’. If the minor has his or her own (valid) passport, the Autorisation de Sortie is not necessary.
Please note: Minors who are 8 years old and older and who live in France and have been entered in one of the non-French passports of their parents or companions, should also have a "Titre d'Identite Republicain" if they want to travel abroad.

Minors who do not have the French nationality, who are younger than 16 years and who are travelling back to France:
  • should, if they were born outside of France, be in the possession of a passport or an identity document accepted in France and a certificate of health (or an official copy of it), issued by the French Office the Migrations Internationales prior to coming to live in France.
  • should, if they were born in France, be in the possession of an official copy of the ‘Carte de Sejour’ (residence permit or visa) or a French identity document of one of the parents.
More information
Persons who have the French nationality can find more information by consulting the information for travellers of the Ministère des Affaires étrangères.