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re: At what age are you cool with your kids flying alone?
Posted on 6/6/21 at 9:24 pm to windshieldman
Posted on 6/6/21 at 9:24 pm to windshieldman
My son, now 23, flew by himself from Nola to Houston when he was 7. We were able to take him to the gate and hand him off to a flight attendant. My parents were able to pick him up at the gate as soon as the flight attendant escorted him down the jetway. SWA
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Posted on 6/6/21 at 9:39 pm to Count deMonet
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flew by himself from Nola to Houston when he was 7. We were able to take him to the gate and hand him off to a flight attendant. My parents were able to pick him up at the gate as soon as the flight attendant escorted him down the jetway. SWA
Yeah. It’s not that difficult. I don’t see what the issue is.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 9:45 pm to tgrbaitn08
I flew from Lafayette to Tokyo alone when I was 13.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 9:54 pm to HubbaBubba
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one just got out of kindergarten and the other turned 8
Too young. My teenagers fly by themselves but they didn’t start doing this until they were 14 and 15. They flew together to California and North Carolina. I would never send a kindergartner without an adult.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 10:02 pm to HubbaBubba
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Posted on 6/6/21 at 10:14 pm to HubbaBubba
My daughter is flying alone for the first time in 2 weeks. She’s 14. I’m still apprehensive.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 10:15 pm to Notnac
I think it depends if the kid is used to flying, if they have flown a good bit then the younger they can fly alone
Posted on 6/6/21 at 10:20 pm to Bluegrass_Cat
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had a 5 year old girl by herself on my flight last night.
Air Force One?
Posted on 6/6/21 at 10:29 pm to HubbaBubba
I have 2 twin cousins that live in Paris. They flew alone from Paris to NOLA when they were about 12-13.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 10:31 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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I'm not a parent, but there are WAY too many pervs in this world to put any kid under 15 on a plane alone.
The stranger danger campaign was such a smashing success.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 10:37 pm to The Third Leg
The airlines dont let the kids out of their sight when flying without an adult. Someone takes them to their gates and meets them at the next gate. When they are on the flight the stewardesses watches them like a hawk as well. I wouldnt have a problem sending a 5 or 6 year old on a flight. I did it at that age in the 70's.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 10:40 pm to HubbaBubba
12 or so
Posted on 6/6/21 at 10:48 pm to HubbaBubba
An 8 year old should barely do anything on their own much less trying to navigate an airport by themselves wtf
Posted on 6/6/21 at 11:07 pm to VOLhalla
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I started flying by myself around age five once a year to see my grandparents. Wasn’t a big deal at all - the airlines have hostesses that are assigned to a child and stays by their side the whole time. If there’s any layover there are rooms at airports for children filled with games/TVs/snacks and usually free pizza/burgers. It wasn’t uncommon for hostesses to bump my seat up to first-class.
I don’t know how much has changed since the late eighties/early nineties, but traveling alone as a kid was pretty fun.
I did the same at 5. Flew from BTR to DFW & back to see my dad. Later it was LFT to DFW. A few times I left from BTR/LFT & flew to LAX & also SFA (with connections in Houston or ATL to meet my dad for visits to the grandparents.
An unaccompanied minor is a misnomer. The kid is assigned a flight attendant the entire time. Parent gets their entire company profile & all the contact info you need. Parent escorts the kid to the gate & meets everyone. Then the oid flies in the 1st row of the section & (pre-9/11) got that full cockpit visit to get a pair of wings & see all the cool controls, meet the pilots, etc. Always the ast to get off the plane with the flight team. Your assigned attendant walks you beyond security to meet with a specified & verified adult/parent/family member with ID & all of that to be fully checked.
I loved it & did it every Spring Break, Summer, every other Thanksgiving, the rotating Christmas Break weeks, & a couple long weekends every year from 5 - 16. At that point I started driving to DFW. I met a new hot (or what what young brain told me was "hot") woman every flight. Fell in love each time for a few hours then moved on. Definitely set me up for an enjoyable HS & college/20s dating life thanks to that familiarity with meeting women forgetting about them with relative ease.
People today are so freaking overprotective. If you're 30+ = you rode your bike all over the city from dawn to dusk. The only thing that's changed since then is your immediate access to the worst news possible. Before no one knew about most of it because we simply didn't know it existed. We need to get back to that way of life. It'll have far more benefits than actual bad things that happen to us/your kids.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 11:12 pm to HubbaBubba
Myself and a buddy flew by ourselves the first time either in kindergarten or first grade, but it was a direct flight from shreveport to Baton Rouge ~30 years ago. I might have a little more reservation on sending kids that young all the way across the country.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 11:18 pm to HubbaBubba
I did at 13 after 911. Idk if I would because they don't have anywhere to go that we wouldn't.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 11:24 pm to HubbaBubba
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Posted on 6/6/21 at 11:31 pm to forever lsu30
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The kid is assigned a flight attendant the entire time.
Guess the Tooth Fairy is coming early!
Posted on 6/6/21 at 11:41 pm to USMEagles
My Mom lived in San Antonio when I was 2-7. Dad lived in West Monroe. They would fly me back and forth 4-5 times a year starting at 5. The security wasn’t what it is now. They were able to walk me to the door of the plane and the other would be at the gate when I arrived. Never had any trouble and the stewardesses would always spend a lot of time with me.
Posted on 6/6/21 at 11:45 pm to HubbaBubba
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At what age are you cool with your kids flying alone?
Probably never. But eventually they are going to do it.
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