Year help: I want to send my child alone on an international flight. - Help.com

You can sign him up as an unaccompanied minor, and people at the airport will guide him around so that he gets on his flight on time.

Where is your son/daughter flying? You must have both parents’ approval for him/her to travel alone. If you are divorced, you would need to provide a letter from your spouse’s lawyer stating they OK’d the travel. You would also need to provide a name and address of a person who is going to pick up your child at the destination. They will check when they escort out your child and if someone else will pick him/her up they might not going to let your child go with those. So give at least two names.

I think if he is above 14 years of age he is fine to fly on his own without any complications.

I just recently flew a three hour flight by myself, and I’m 16, was 15 at the time. You can drop him off or walk in, the farthest you can go though is the the security check in, where they check carry-ons and your body.
They say that anyone under 18 who is traveling alone will be given a off-duty air-flight attendant. But when I went no one was there. So i don’t really know what that was about!

It should be all right as long as you don’t move to another city while he’s gone! ;-)

Yes, you have to check him in and he will be escorted by a flight attendant to the plane. Give the flight attendant the names and address he is going. He is 16, but in Iceland he is still considered a minor.

You can go into the airport, be with him to check in his bags which they take after that. Then you can go to the security check in, and the only way to get in that is if you have a plane ticket. So he’ll do that by himself but you can watch because normally the walls are glass. After that there will be stores and food places around the gates. They have signs pointing you to the right gate. After he finds his gate, he should check in at the desk in the gate and make sure their is no complatations with his seat or anything. Then they will start calling boarding on the flight from the 1st class and rewards people, then 2nd class from back to front. Get on the plane, yadda yadda, and when he gets off the plane his girlfriend shoulw be at the gate so they will be right there!

My mother didn’t sign me in at all, it was all me

In case of accident or anything could happen, it is always wise to give a name and address to the flight attendant. They will put your son’s name in their computer and inform you or if they can’t find you, them, in case of emergency. I am not talking about plane crash. Also, it is safety precaution. No matter how busy you are, you are his mother and he is only 16. What the Icelanders say 12+ relates to the price of the ticket. Anyone 12 and over pays adult price and sits on one seat and not half price in the parents’ lap.

Don’t all teenagers know everything? Send him alone. He’ll figure it out!

When I first saw this post, first thing I thought about was the age, and what was the reason of him going overseas without a parent or anyone at all to go with him. But since he’s a teenager, that’s a whole different ballgame.

You don’t have to walk him off, he might feel a little uncomfortable asbout it. My I ask though, what exactly is he going overseas for? Is someone meeting him on the other side of the world? Or is he just going to try and travel around and hope not to get lost? LOL. If someone is waiting for him, then it should be fine to let him go on his own, if he wants you to see him off, then do that. If not, then just drop him off. Simple. :)