Airline guide · rules last checked 13 October 2026
Condor lets you check in 2 child items (pushchair or buggy, car seat, travel cot) and push the pushchair to the gate. But you still carry everything through two airports with a baby in your arms, and in Heraklion the pushchair comes back on the baggage belt (or at the aircraft door at some airports). With Holiday Stork your gear is waiting in the arrivals hall at Heraklion Airport.
Condor flies to Heraklion (HER) from many German airports, including Frankfurt, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart and Leipzig/Halle, mostly in summer. Each baby or child can bring up to two items such as a pushchair, travel cot or car seat in the hold, and the pushchair can be used up to the boarding gate.
A pushchair or buggy is one of the two baby items each child can bring, with no advance registration. You can push your child to the boarding gate, where it is loaded into the hold. On arrival it is often returned at the aircraft door, but not every airport can do this, so it may come back in the baggage hall. Joggers, bicycle trailers and fold-up wagons are not accepted.
A car seat can be one of the two items and travels in the hold. To use it on board, the child needs their own booked seat, and the car seat must be approved (for example ECE R44, FAA or Transport Canada) and no wider than 43 cm. Car seats go in window seats, not in or next to emergency exit rows, and the crew can move an unsuitable seat to the hold.
A travel cot can be one of the two baby items carried in the hold, with no advance registration. Condor no longer offers onboard baby bassinets, so plan for your baby to sit on your lap with a loop belt.
Condor does not list high chairs among the baby items it carries, so check with Condor before you travel if you want to bring one.
Your stroller, car seat and travel cot, cleaned, checked and waiting for you in the arrivals hall at Heraklion Airport.
Every step of a return trip on Condor with a pushchair, a car seat and a travel cot.
Fold the pushchair, bag the car seat and the travel cot, and squeeze them into the car with the suitcases.
Pack clothes, nappies and toys. Nothing bulky.
Push the baby, pull the cases and carry the car seat and cot across the car park.
Walk in with your suitcases and your baby.
Queue at the check-in desk or the boarding gate to check in the car seat and cot as child items.
Nothing extra to check in.
Lift your baby out, fold the pushchair and heave it onto the belt while the queue waits.
Your hands stay free for your baby.
Leave the pushchair at the gate and carry your baby and bags on board.
Board with your baby and a nappy bag.
The pushchair comes back on the baggage belt (or at the aircraft door at some airports), so you carry your baby through passport control and baggage claim, then wait for the car seat and cot.
We meet you in the arrivals hall with the stroller unfolded and ready.
Fit your own car seat into an unfamiliar car, in the summer heat, with a tired baby.
We fit the car seat in your rental car before you drive off.
Gear that travelled in the hold can arrive scratched or broken, far from home.
Cleaned, steam-sanitised and safety-checked gear, the right size for your child.
Do it all again: fold, bag, check in, security, aircraft door, baggage belt.
We collect everything before you fly. You leave with only your suitcases.
Yes. Condor lets you check in 2 child items when you travel with an infant: pushchair or buggy, car seat, travel cot. You still carry them through both airports, check them in at the check-in desk or the boarding gate and collect them from the baggage belt (or at the aircraft door at some airports) in Heraklion.
A pushchair or buggy is one of the two baby items each child can bring, with no advance registration. You can push your child to the boarding gate, where it is loaded into the hold. On arrival it is often returned at the aircraft door, but not every airport can do this, so it may come back in the baggage hall. Joggers, bicycle trailers and fold-up wagons are not accepted.
A car seat can be one of the two items and travels in the hold. To use it on board, the child needs their own booked seat, and the car seat must be approved (for example ECE R44, FAA or Transport Canada) and no wider than 43 cm. Car seats go in window seats, not in or next to emergency exit rows, and the crew can move an unsuitable seat to the hold.
Fly light. Holiday Stork has your stroller, car seat, travel cot and high chair cleaned, checked and waiting in the arrivals hall at Heraklion Airport, fits the car seat in your rental car and collects everything before you fly home. No bag drop queues, no folding at security and no waiting at the baggage belt with a baby in your arms.
Holiday Stork meets you in the arrivals hall at Heraklion Airport or delivers to your hotel or villa anywhere in Crete.
Rules last checked 13 October 2026. Always confirm on your booking before you fly. Sources: Condor: Baggage for kids, infants and babies, Condor: Gepaeck fuer Kinder, Kleinkinder und Babys, Condor: FAQ Traveling with children and babies, Condor: Flying with kids, toddlers and babies, Condor: Fliegen mit Babys, Kleinkindern und Kindern, Condor: Flights to Heraklion. Holiday Stork is not affiliated with Condor.
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