Flying - Unaccompanied minors

[Finemjen]

can anyone share experience of their kid flying alone? Which airline is best?

A lot of them won’t take young children, so what age?

How old and where to / from?

We live abroad so relatively common in our friendship group but for airlines recommendations very much depends on age and where to/from. Generally speaking you're looking at the flagship providers but BA are over 14 only

www.britishairways.com/content/information/travel-assistance/children-travelling-alone

You need to work put who will actually take the age of kids you've got on the route you need. They you can start looking at if you would be happy with the service.

We never used it, but have friends who have successfully used Emirates. Picked because we lived in the ME.

I know a few people who have done this, always successful! I think the kids actually enjoyed it, as long as they’re used to flying usually anyway I don’t see a problem.
Ba always good. Don’t use Etihad.

Emirates were brilliant and take younger children.

DS flew Delta Airlines last year no problem. Aged 17.

@Round123

Ba always good

? BA - they stopped their Unaccompanied Minors service quite a few years back. As a pp has said the minimum age for travel with them unaccompanied now is 14.

Airlines have varying policies so it’s hard to answer to meaningfully answer the OPs question without knowing where in the world or what route, if any, is under consideration.

I used this service once with my DS with royal air Maroc which was faultless but quite expensive. British airways don't do it. Where are you looking to fly to?

That's not an unaccompanied minor - you're an adult at 16 for airlines purposes

Thanks, I didn't know that. I had a letter written out for US Border Control and Delta Airlines which didn't even get requested by either🤦‍♀️

All he got asked by Border Control was "are you here to visit family or friends?" He replied "yes" and that was it🤷‍♀️

17!

@InkHeart2024

Depends on the country. Dd counted as a minor at 17, they asked her why she was travelling with just me, but they accepted our explanation without proof at least

That's a different issue to whether airlines will let them fly without an adult though

You don’t say where you’re heading to but Air Baltic, Air France, KLM, SAS have all been good.

Have used Air Canada a few times but had had to pay for the service