bottle fed babies + international flights

From experience, the cafes at Auckland airport will heat up water for you. I think the situation on the plane totally depends on which airline you are flying. Generally on the airline website they will have that info.

I would take the appropriate volume of water in the bottle(s) - sterile or not depending on what you do, and the formula in a dispenser, then you just have to hand over one bottle to whoever will heat up the water for you.

good luck!

We flew to London and back with a bottle baby, and we just had the flight attendents wash the bottle out after each feed. They also filled up the bottles and heated them for us too.

and it's only a short flight so you should be fine!

When we flew from Akl we were able to take our stroller right up to the gate, they tag it at check in and then take it off you as you get on the plane. It should be waiting for you when you get off at the other end

I took our own cooled, boiled water in the bottles we needed and formula in a dispenser. They didn't even look at it going through security in Akl, they just said as long as you have a baby it's OK We also had jars of baby food and dry snacks like crackers and cereal.

C drinks formula at room temp but the family next to us got their bottles heated on the plane. They will rinse bottles for you too but no facilities to sterilise so if take one more bottle than you think you will need.

Does your DS take a dummy? Use a dummy clip! So you don't have to keep picking it up off the floor. We gave C the dummy during takeoff/landing if it didn't coincide with a feed.

HTH Enjoy your holiday!