Can i lie about my kid's age for an unaccompanied minor flight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would do it in a second. My kids fly unaccompanied all the time, I walk them to the gate, the Child never provides ID, I am not sure why PP is mentioning a passport. If its a domestic flight that is not needed.

What age are your kids?
How do you (as an adult) get through security?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You can't, they check the age with the passport.

who does? And when?

TSA. When you arrive. She will need to show ID. They will see her age. Yes, if they can get $300 out of her they will.

It's not 1992.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.
She is flying for a funeral of a friend who died. It's very sad.
We really don't have the extra $300 for this fee (on top of $400 for the ticket).

This sounds like something you should accompany her to -- sorry that's not something i would send my teenager alone to do.

Good Lord.
Stop with the criticism.

She is meeting a parent who will be there already. Parent #2 lives in that town. Please stop with the holier-than-thou parenting.

[Anonymous]

An hour flight is what, a four/five hour drive? Why not just drive her? What about Amtrak?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You can't, they check the age with the passport.

who does? And when?

TSA. When you arrive. She will need to show ID. They will see her age. Yes, if they can get $300 out of her they will.

It's not 1992.

So the TSA age is literally going to check her passport against her boarding pass and then make the mental calculation to realize that she is 14 years, 51 weeks old?

Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You can't, they check the age with the passport.

who does? And when?

TSA. When you arrive. She will need to show ID. They will see her age. Yes, if they can get $300 out of her they will.

It's not 1992.

So the TSA age is literally going to check her passport against her boarding pass and then make the mental calculation to realize that she is 14 years, 51 weeks old?

Really?

Oops,
Meant to type

So the TSA agent is literally going to check her passport against her boarding pass and then make the mental calculation to realize that she is 14 years, 51 weeks old?

Really?

[Anonymous]

I’m not advocating for lying about age, but my daughter traveled unaccompanied many times as a minor and never needed ID. I was always with her at check in just to be sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The chances are ZIP. Passports have birthdates on them. She’ll need ID to check in, ID to go through security etc. Why can’t she fly a week later?

Security will check her ID against her boarding pass but they won't check to see if the age on her ID is >15, right?

And do they ID check at the gate? Not for an adult---they just scan bleep the boarding pass. I wonder if they do for teenagers. Anyone know?

It's sort of the opposite. TSA doesn't need any ID for minors, even unaccompanied ones.

You're going to need to provide a birth date when booking the flight. If you lie, you might run into problems with the security screening. If you tell the truth, they'll know when you check-in. It's not going to let a 14 year old check in online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.
She is flying for a funeral of a friend who died. It's very sad.
We really don't have the extra $300 for this fee (on top of $400 for the ticket).

This sounds like something you should accompany her to -- sorry that's not something i would send my teenager alone to do.

Good Lord.
Stop with the criticism.

She is meeting a parent who will be there already. Parent #2 lives in that town. Please stop with the holier-than-thou parenting.

It's a funeral for a teenager - that's heavy. Sorry you are ok with being a crappy parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.
She is flying for a funeral of a friend who died. It's very sad.
We really don't have the extra $300 for this fee (on top of $400 for the ticket).

This sounds like something you should accompany her to -- sorry that's not something i would send my teenager alone to do.

Good Lord.
Stop with the criticism.

She is meeting a parent who will be there already. Parent #2 lives in that town. Please stop with the holier-than-thou parenting.

It's a funeral for a teenager - that's heavy. Sorry you are ok with being a crappy parent.

in addition to trying to get your kid to lie about her age to the authorities to save some $$$

[Anonymous]

If the age restriction is just with the airline (which it sounds like it is) I cannot imagine this would be a problem. TSA doesn't care what the individual airlines' flying requirements are. They're just there to be sure passengers aren't terrorists. They're not going to compare your kid's age on her passport to her boarding card, look up the requirements for that specific airline's minor rules, and then search to see if there's someone 16+ with her. And I've never, ever seen an airline check-in desk at the actual gate do anything other than scan the boarding pass. It's not like she's 3 and they're going to be able to tell by sight that she's one week under 16.

I'd do it if I were you, OP. $300 is a LOT of money and for absolutely no benefit to anyone but the airline in this case. I'm really sorry about your daughter's friend's passing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here.
She is flying for a funeral of a friend who died. It's very sad.
We really don't have the extra $300 for this fee (on top of $400 for the ticket).

This sounds like something you should accompany her to -- sorry that's not something i would send my teenager alone to do.

Good Lord.
Stop with the criticism.

She is meeting a parent who will be there already. Parent #2 lives in that town. Please stop with the holier-than-thou parenting.

It's a funeral for a teenager - that's heavy. Sorry you are ok with being a crappy parent.

F-you. The kid is attending WITH A PARENT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the age restriction is just with the airline (which it sounds like it is) I cannot imagine this would be a problem. TSA doesn't care what the individual airlines' flying requirements are. They're just there to be sure passengers aren't terrorists. They're not going to compare your kid's age on her passport to her boarding card, look up the requirements for that specific airline's minor rules, and then search to see if there's someone 16+ with her. And I've never, ever seen an airline check-in desk at the actual gate do anything other than scan the boarding pass. It's not like she's 3 and they're going to be able to tell by sight that she's one week under 16.

I'd do it if I were you, OP. $300 is a LOT of money and for absolutely no benefit to anyone but the airline in this case. I'm really sorry about your daughter's friend's passing.

I agree with all of this, and please ignore the morons who 1. don't understand what it means to be on a tight budget and 2. don't get that the other parent is capable of helping your teenager.

I am not sure why DCUMers have to turn everything into an opportunity to show the worst part of themselves...I wonder if it is exhausting being so mean all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You can't, they check the age with the passport.

who does? And when?

TSA. When you arrive. She will need to show ID. They will see her age. Yes, if they can get $300 out of her they will.

It's not 1992.

So the TSA age is literally going to check her passport against her boarding pass and then make the mental calculation to realize that she is 14 years, 51 weeks old?

Really?

Oops,
Meant to type

So the TSA agent is literally going to check her passport against her boarding pass and then make the mental calculation to realize that she is 14 years, 51 weeks old?

Really?

The boarding pass get scanned. When was the last time you were on a plane?

[Anonymous]

If she's flown dozens of times, she has a frequent flyer number, I'd expect. And her real birthday is on there.

My worry would be that she has no problem going out, but then hits a snag getting back.