Travelling with Children

Booking
Seat
Baggage
Meals
At the Airport
Entertainment
Nursing
Regulations

Booking

Booking a ticket for your child

To fly with your child on Singapore Airlines, you must book their ticket together with your adult ticket in a single transaction. You may need to provide additional documents if you are traveling with your child to/from certain destinations. Learn more.

For infants

At least seven days old and under two years old. Each infant must be accompanied by an adult who is at least 18 years old. Please contact Singapore Airlines to assist you with the following types of booking:

a) If you have medical clearance to fly with a newborn between 48 hours and seven days of age.
b) If your infant is crossing his or her second birthday before the start of the subsequent flight in the booking, as he or she will require a seat due to safety requirement.

In special cases where only one adult is available to travel with two infants. One of the infants will be required to use an approved child car seat on a separate passenger seat while the other will use an infant seat belt on the adult’s lap.

Seat

Keeping your child safe and comfortable

Select standard seats for free, on a first-come-first-served basis, when you travel with young children in the same booking. This excludes seats in the emergency exit row due to flight safety requirement.

Bassinets

Bassinet seats in Premium Economy and Economy Class are reserved for passengers with infants, on a first-come-first-served basis. Each bassinet measures at 768mm (L) x 298mm (W) x 158mm (H) and can support a maximum weight of 14kg.

Families travelling with 2 or more infants may not be able to be seated together as the bassinet points may not be positioned side by side.

If you have a Scoot flight in your itinerary, please note that bassinets are not provided on board Scoot flights.

Baggage

Pack all the baby essentials for a fuss-free trip

We provide our young travellers with baggage allowance so that the family can have a fuss-free flight! Do refer to your e-ticket for the baggage allowance.

For infants

Depending on the itinerary and class of travel, infants will be entitled to check in up to 10kg* of baggage, or a piece of baggage up to 23kg/32kg*, along with a fully-collapsible stroller and car seat.

Alternatively, you can carry a compact, foldable lightweight stroller on board the cabin. If you’re departing from Singapore, you’ll also enjoy an additional 6kg of cabin baggage allowance for breast milk, infant food, and baby amenities. If you're departing from or transiting through other countries, contact Singapore Airlines for the country-specific restrictions.

If you have a Scoot flight in your itinerary, please note that all Scoot flights will require the stroller to be checked in at the aerobridge if there is no space in the cabin compartment. Checked baggage allowance for infants are not included on Scoot flights.

Meals

Tasty eats for young travellers

Upon request*, your infant will be served age-appropriate meals that are easy to chew and digest. Travelling with older children? Let them pick among the Western, Asian, and vegetarian options.
The little one is a fussy eater? No problem—you are more than welcome to bring your own food on board. We recommend bringing food that does not require chilling or heating due to operational restrictions.

Child meal for infants and Asian/Vegetarian meal options for children may not be available on some flights. There is also no meal service in the Economy Class cabin on flights between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur due to the short flight time. Please refer to Manage Booking for the meal availability.

*We are unable to serve your infant an adult meal if there is no prior infant meal request.

At the Airport

On your day of travel at the airport

Entertainment

Child-friendly entertainment.
Stress-free parents.

Nursing

Supporting every mother’s right
to nurse in comfort

We believe it’s every mother’s right to be able to nurse their infant or express on board. You can choose to do so at your seat if you prefer—our crew will be happy to provide you with an extra blanket for added privacy.

*Both manual and electric breast pumps are allowed on board. However, do ensure that its batteries meet the approved guidelines.

Special regulations for France, Italy, The Republic of Philippines, South Africa and Vietnam

To protect the safety of children, certain countries require you to prepare additional documents when you are travelling with a child.

Flying from France

French residents—regardless of nationality—under 18 years old who are flying from France without his or her parents or legal guardians will need to provide the following documents:

A valid passport in the passenger’s name
Exit territory authorisation form signed by the passenger’s parent or legal guardian
A photocopy of a valid identity document of the parent or legal guardian who signed the exit territory authorisation form

Flying from Italy

Nationals of Italy below 14 years old, who are unaccompanied or accompanied by someone other than the parent/guardian stated on page five of the minor’s passport, are required to have an authorisation form (Dichiarazione di Accompagnamento) signed by both parents and issued by the local police, when traveling to or from Italy.

If the passenger’s parents reside abroad, the authorisation form must be issued by an Italian embassy or consulate.

If the passenger is traveling from Italy, his or her parents/guardians may submit the travel authorisation request online through here.

Flying from The Republic of Philippines

All passengers under the age of 18 who are travelling into or out of the Philippines must provide additional documents.

Please refer to the Department of Social and Welfare Development website for more details.

Flying into or out of South Africa

All passengers under the age of 18 who are travelling into or out of South Africa must provide additional documents.

Please refer to the South African Department of Home Affairs website for details.

Flying from Vietnam

Nationals of Vietnam below 14 years old must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardian, when travelling from Vietnam. If the accompanying person is not the minor’s parent or legal guardian, they are required to produce a letter of authorisation signed by the parents or legal guardian. Please download the letter from the links below.

Letter of Authorisation

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Cabin stroller requirements

You can carry a compact, foldable lightweight stroller on board the cabin if it meets the requirements below. The stroller will be regarded as one piece of cabin baggage, and will count towards your cabin baggage allowance.

Less than 7kg, and sum of length, width and height should not exceed 115cm.
Must be able to be stored in the cabin overhead compartment
Must be properly packed in a suitable bag prior to boarding, remain folded, and unused in the aircraft cabin throughout the flight.

Singapore Airlines reserves the right to reject strollers that are not appropriately packed. If your stroller does not meet the requirements or if there is no space in the cabin, it will be checked in. Strollers that are checked in will not be counted as part of your checked baggage allowance. Please check with the ground staff on the stroller retrieval location before your flight and/or upon arrival.

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Child car seats and harnesses requirements

If you’ve purchased a separate passenger seat for your child under three years old, you may bring an approved child car seat or harness for use on board. For safety, your child should be secured in the car seat by its harness at all times—even when the seat belt sign is switched off.

You must also meet the following requirements:

Child car seats must be approved by a foreign airworthiness authority and meet government standards such as the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), or equivalent.

UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)

US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

European Safety Standard requirements of United Nations ECE Regulation 44 (UN/ECE 44)

Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (CMVSS) No. 213 entitled “Child Restraint Systems” or CMVSS No. 213.1 entitled “Infant Seating and Restraint Systems”

Australian/New Zealand design standard AS/NZS 1754 for infant car seats.

Do note the location of these approval labels on your child car seat, as you may be asked to show it to our ground staff and cabin crew.

Child harnesses must be approved by the FAA, such as the AmSafe Child Aviation Restraint System (CARES) child harness. However, the CARES child harness may not fit in some of our First and Business Class seats. For details, please contact Singapore Airlines.
Child car seats and harnesses must be fitted according to the manufacturer’s instructions. You may be asked to provide the manufacturing standards and instructions to our ground staff and cabin crew.
Child car seats and harnesses cannot be fitted on seats at the emergency exit rows, as well as the rows immediately before and after.
Child car seats that must be secured by a three-point harness cannot be used on our flights.
Booster seats, vests and harness-type child restraint devices cannot be used on our flights.
Child car seats must be forward- or aft-facing and secured to the passenger seat with the aircraft safety belt by a lap belt or two-point harness.
An aft-facing child car seat that doesn’t have a belt path must be used with a detachable base. However, these child seats that require detachable bases may not fit properly in the passenger seat.
An aft-facing child car seat that has a belt path, and is properly labelled, doesn’t need a detachable base.
Child car seats must not extend unreasonably beyond the passenger seat. An adult must be able to move past the car seat when the seats in the row immediately in front of it are in the upright position.
Child car seats must not block the aisle. The aisle must remain accessible during taxi, take-off and landing.
Depending on your class of travel, the child car seat must fit within these maximum areas:

Aircraft type	Class of Travel	Maximum area (width x depth)
B737-8	Business	19.4" x 17.5"
B737-8	Economy	17.8" x 18"
B737-800	Business	21" x 20.5"
B737-800	Economy	16.3" x 17.5"
B77WR	First	36" x 18"
	Business	29" x 18"
	Premium Economy	19" x 17.5"
	Economy	18" x 17.5"
B787	Business	19.5" x 20"
B787	Economy	16.5" x 17"
A359 MH	Business	19.5" x 20"
A359 MH	Economy	16.5" x 17"
A359 LH	Business	29" x 18"
	Premium Economy	19" x 19.5"
	Economy	18" x 17"
A359 ULR	Business	29" x 18"
A359 ULR	Premium Economy	19" x 19.5"
A388R	Suites	21" x 20.5"
	Business	24" x 18"
	Premium Economy	19" x 17.5"
	Economy	18" x 17"

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Inflight convertible bed requirements

If you’ve purchased a separate passenger seat for your child, you’re welcome to bring your own inflatable flight cushion or convertible gadget to turn your child’s seat into a bed.

Just be sure to pick a window seat or the middle seat in the centre section—and follow the manufacturer’s instructions for use.

You must also meet the following requirements:

Your child must be able to fasten the seatbelt under his or her arm when using the inflight bed.
If your child is under two years of age, he or she must be removed from the convertible inflight bed and secured with an infant seatbelt whenever the seatbelt sign is switched on.
Convertible inflight beds must be packed and securely stowed in the overhead compartment or under the seat in front during taxi, take-off and landing.
Convertible inflight beds cannot be used at the emergency exit rows.
Convertible inflight beds must not interfere with or prevent the seat in front from reclining.
Convertible inflight beds must not damage the aircraft seat if they need to be attached to any part of the seat.
Convertible inflight beds should not exceed a total dimension of 115cm (when the length, width and height of the fully deployed bed is combined), and will be counted as part of your cabin baggage allowance.
Convertible inflight beds cannot be combined so as to allow two or more convertible inflight beds to occupy several seats.

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