If you have purchased an airline seat for them, do you still need their birth certificate? The last time we flew with her was when she was a lap child.
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No, you don't need the birth certificate.
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I have talked to a few friends and no one has been asked for a birth certificate, with or without their own seat. But I would bring a copy just in case because I'm paranoid.
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Nope. We flew in August, and didn't need it. I did bring it, but never took it out of my wallet.
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We always travel with passports.
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Domestically, they don't ask.
I always have passports though, because I am one of those worried people, lol.
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We haven't needed anything.
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No. The airline only needs age verification if you are bringing them as a lap infant and TSA doesn't require ID until 18.
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Nope. No birth certificate needed
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Just flew to Florida last week from Atlanta. Both the flight there and back, they checked her passport. The passport pic is like when she's 8 months old and she's now turning 3. Looks nothing like her
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I have always brought it but they have never asked. We have done 3 round trips where she had her own seat.
Although at one security check point the tsa guy told me I should have a photo id for her? But no one else said that and I have no idea what that would be!
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Agree with with everyone, and if you are TSA precheck members your LO doesn't have to be (they don't do that for kids)
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@MamaCate: oh I just realized I have an ID card for her!
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@mediagirl: there you go! Where did you get one out of curiosity?
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We haven't needed it for domestic flights.
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Since we live in such a small country, all of our flights are international, so we always take our passports. We take them when flying domestically in the U.S. too.
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No, we didn't need anything for them, which is actually a little scary! We didn't fly internationally though.
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We flew last week. Southwest asked for DS's birth certificate (3 month old lap infant) both ways. I had my daughter's birth certificate (2.5 yo, ticketed passenger) but was not asked to show it.
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Technically yes you are supposed to have it (and the airline told me the hospital one was ok.) But I think they really only ask for it if they are trying to make sure your lo is ok to be a lap baby (so like on the border of two?) I flew in August and wasn't asked, but dd had her own seat. Id say bring t just in case though.
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I brought the birth certificate but nobody asked. I flew American, US Air and Hawaiian.
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Just to follow up on this - we were not asked at all about ID for our daughter. I guess once they have their own seat, they are all set.
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I know most of you are saying you don't need it, but our airline website says you do, so I want to be prepared. Is a copy ok or do they need the original? I don't love the idea of bringing his original birth certificate with us. I emailed the company but haven't heard back yet (and the wait time when I called at 8pm last night was 46 minutes!).
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@littlebug: we took a copy with us anyways. I think our copy is an original. When she was born, I went to the records office and got 3 originals printed.
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@mediagirl: No! But she has a passport, so we brought that.
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