Am I old enough to travel on a plane alone?
Im 17 and over christmas break i want to go visit my family in west palm beach florida. i live in omaha. and when i got on the internet it said can't buy tickets unless an adult is traveling with me.
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I flew alone when I was 5, call the company and im sure you will be fine.
2 :
You are old enough to fly alone, but not old enough to make your own arrangements. When you are under 18, an adult parent or guardian needs to make the arrangements for you. It's not as simple as buying a ticket online and going somewhere. If you manage to buy a ticket yourself, you will find you have a problem when you check in. When you check in for your flight, you'll have to show identification - even if you check in at the computerized quick check-in. And if your identification is fake, not federally recognized (i.e. school id), or it clearly states you are under 18, you won't be allowed on the flight. What the 5 year old traveler probably doesn't remember is that when a person under 18 travels alone, there is an adult at the departure gate, with special paperwork, who gives you and the paperwork to the flight attendant who then personally takes you to your seat. For the whole trip that you fly alone you will wear a special identification that states you are a minor traveling alone so that all the flight staff know who you are. You have to wear this identification during the whole flight and are not allowed to remove the identification until the adult at the destination picks you up. At your destination, the flight attendant will ask you to stay seated until the plane is (nearly) empty then personally escort you off the plane and check the identification of the pre-designated adult who should be there waiting to pick you up. The policy is the same at every airline, and there's no way around it.
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i don't know what airline you were looking at but you are old enough to travel alone without extra fees on continental and same goes for southwest The following rules are in effect for unaccompanied minor travel: Continental will allow unaccompanied minor travel only on Continental Airlines, Continental Micronesia, Continental Express and Continental Connection flights. Unaccompanied minors under 5 years of age are not accepted. Unaccompanied minors ages 5-7 may only travel on nonstop flights. Unaccompanied minors ages 8-11 may travel on any flight (nonstop or connecting) operated by Continental, Continental Micronesia, Continental Express, or Continental Connection. However, travel will not be allowed on the last connecting flight of the day รข€“ unless the connecting flight is the only published service to that destination. Unaccompanied Minors are not accepted on flights which require an overnight stay in order to make a connection. Children ages 12-17 have the option to pay the fee and use the unaccompanied minor service or they may travel as adults with no unaccompanied minor service provided. Children under the age of 12 traveling alone may not travel on any flights operated by Continental that connect to/from other carriers
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