How Do You Keep Your Sanity And Baby Happy While Flying?

Give her a bottle while taking off and a bottle while landing, or nurse her if you are still nursing. Drinking something will help her with the pressure in her ears.
Take crackers and snacks for her and some small toys you can entertain her with.
Another tip, if possible keep her awake for a while before the flight so maybe when you are flying she will just go take a nap.

i had a 5 year old i flew with…wow ! and usually a 2 hour turns into way more, so be prepared. just try and get some sleep before. you can get caught up with sleep, but never will catch up. i was constantly saying his name and urging him to keep close. you have to cuz there are a ton of creepy people out there.
one thing i did i can share that was positive…hahaha…was pack new surprise toys and gifts that worked well. lots of them. and things that it wouldnt matter if they were lost.
i was sooooo tired but, all in all a good experience.

I just got back from a Christmas trip with our 24 month old. Yes, a little older than yours, but not too different mentally. The same tricks should work. Our flight was 3 and half one way, and a long 4 and half on the way home (because of winds). She’s always happy when she’s eating. I don’t know how far along your baby is on eating, but our little girl loves crackers. A bag of crackers bought us a good 30 mins of peace. We have a portable DVD player. Baby crack er I mean Einstein DVD’s bought us about an hour or so, before she got bored with those. This was key: put her in a car seat. Buy the extra seat. It is so worth it. We strapped her little tush in the car seat, and to her it was no different than being in the car. She knows she can’t get out and walk around in the car, so the idea never crossed her mind in the plane. Cause let me warn you, if you let them run up and down the aisle once, you’re done. She’ll want to keep doing it. Then you’ll be in the uncomfortable position of apologizing to all the passengers sitting in aisle seats she bumps into, stops and stares at etc… Yeah, most passengers are polite and smile, and say no problem, but you know it’s annoying when someone else’s kid keeps running past your seat followed by the parent. So just lock her up in a car seat, and put it next to the window so she’s tucked away from the aisle and won’t get any ideas. Also, like the other person said, buy some surprise toys you can pull out of your carry one bag. Spread them out so as she gets bored of one, you have a new one. I had some silly putty, and she loved it. That bought us another hour. And take it from me, have a clean outfit in your carry on bag. It wasn’t fun for us having to wash her and her clothes in the bathroom sink to get the poop off, and then have to put wet clothes back on her, after she had some G.I. distress that overflowed the diaper. 2 and half hours should be a piece of cake. That would be a treat for me. Bottom line, food, toys, movies, and car seat. Good luck.