Originally Posted by cmallon

Hi,

We went to Melbourne in February, our wee boy was 1 year and 9 months at the time. We flew with Emirates and they couldn't have been more helpful, they moved us up the back to give us extra seats and actually went all the way bck down the front if I wanted anything from the hand luggage that I had left at our original seats. He was on my lap some of the time but people actually moved to let us have extra seats! Look at the very back of the plane, at first glance I thought the plane was full but all the empty seats were right at the back. We did the Glasgow - Dubai -Melbourne (refuelling at Singapore) route. I was worried sick but I needn't have bothered. As the flight ends up being split into 3 7 hour stints he had what would have been his bedtime on one of them and slept though take off and landing, it was only when we go up to get off the plane that he woke!! We just made sure he had plenty toys and went with the flow, if he wanted to sleep we let him and if he didn't we left him! It did take him a few nights to get over the jet lag but at least we were there and that was it over with (at least for 3 weeks). We were going to visit family so we just wanted to get there as quick as possible to spend as much time as we could with them but it's obviously different when your are emigrating. My biggest tip would be to try not stress to much about as you will end up making things worse for yourself.
Good luck,