Safe Travel For Minors
Letting a child travel alone is a great task. It requires extra precautions and dealing with details that keep the child travelling all by himself or herself, safe. Usually, a majority of flights do not allow children so young to travel without an adult. Children under eleven years are called ‘unaccompanied minors’ and in accordance with the flight’s policy, they are illegal to be treated as adult passengers.
However, filling out a detailed form where one has to give all the needs and requirements of a child, and inform the flight attendant beforehand will help. Often, a flight attendant will accompany the child so that they are escorted, and release them to a person named by the parent or guardian, before the flight had taken off.
If you are intending on sending your child on a flight alone, you must make sure to follow the procedure that needs to be followed to make sure that the child boards and arrives safely.
In addition to sending a child alone, you have to agree that the airline will not take any special precautions when dealing with your child and will not be responsible if the child does not board the plane at all.
Age Guidelines
Airline rules vary from company to company, but for domestic flights, the basic policy is the same.
Children from the age of 1 4 are not allowed to fly alone. Some flights do take 5 year olds but generally, there are rules prohibiting children so young from travelling alone. They have to be accompanied by an adult.
Children who are older than 7 years of age are allowed to travel alone and allowed to go on connecting flights once the parents and guardians have specified it.
Children from ages 8 and above can go on by themselves but having a flight attendant escort them will cost more.
Anyone under the age of seventeen, and traveling on an international flight has to have a permission slip signed by their parents, giving the destination, the length of the stay and their explicit consent at the fact that they are letting a child fly alone.
Of course these guidelines vary from flight to flight, but the basics are the same. Letting a child travel alone is one of the most difficult jobs that flights have to deal with. Though most of the flights happen without incident, it does become a problem when something unfortunate does occur.
Of course, by letting a child travel alone, you are letting them experience something new and exciting. And sometimes, there is little choice, be it because of school or work, other than letting a child travel alone.
It is easier when you are waiting at the destination, ready to have the perfect holiday with your child in a new city and a new apartment you have booked for privacy and safety. Edinburgh Holiday Apartments and the like are the best place to rent when in a city where you want to spend time with your family and explore a city to your heart’s content.
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