Summary
- Airlines have unaccompanied minor policies to ensure safe travel.
- Mistakes can happen, as seen with a 6-year-old boarding the wrong flight.
- United Airlines assists minors aged 5-17 traveling solo.
To help ease the worry of parents and to help turn the entire experience into an adventure, many airlines have an unaccompanied minors policy to ensure young people traveling alone are looked after. In the old days, airlines would have a staff member accompany the minor to the gate and ensure that they boarded the aircraft safely.
Photo: United Airlines
Things can sometimes go wrong
Despite all the precautions and safety measures in place, things can sometimes still go wrong, as was the case with a six-year-old named “Casper” last December. Casper was flying from Philadelphia to Fort Myers to see his grandparents; instead of putting him on the Fort Myers flight, the gate agent…
