Flying with 14YO daughter and her friend tomorrow, friend does not have TSA Precheck

[Anonymous]

Have your DD and the friend flown frequently before? Are they familiar with going through TSA?

If so, send your daughter and friend together, just b/c it's boring to wait in line alone. I have 12 year olds, and we have flown a ton, and I would have no issue with them going through security alone while I waited on the other side if it was necessary.

If they haven't flown a lot, then you all go through regular security together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have your DD and the friend flown frequently before? Are they familiar with going through TSA?

If so, send your daughter and friend together, just b/c it's boring to wait in line alone. I have 12 year olds, and we have flown a ton, and I would have no issue with them going through security alone while I waited on the other side if it was necessary.

If they haven't flown a lot, then you all go through regular security together.

PP here. I meant to say "Are they familiar with going through security?"

[Anonymous]

If I were 14 yo's mom, I'd be pretty pissed that you didn't bring this up with me ahead of time.

[Anonymous]

Good lord some of you are uptight.

OP what did you do?

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Anonymous wrote:FFS what is wrong with you.

It’s insane people like this exist.

Simmer down. She's not sending her to a foreign country alone. She's sending her to a different line 2 feet away. What's wrong with you??

OP, I get you on the medical issues. I have a kid with one and get the ease of using precheck. I'd send the two girls to the regular line together.

You are vacationing together not going on a work trip, just stand in line together, it's not that big of a deal.

It's not about safety it's about having manners.

OP said she had a medical issue that is quicker to go through precheck with.

If you have a medical device that cannot go through the body scanner and you use precheck to avoid that, that's a good enough reason to separate. Otherwise you have to wait for a patdown and search of your devices.

OP ignore the harpies on here. Send the girls together. They will be fine. It's not like you won't be able to see them the entire time.

Bad advice unless you get the ok for this crazy plan from the girl's mom. I would be pretty mad if someone left my child that was a guest with them unaccompanied at the airport like this.

Your 14 year old can’t go through a line alone? You probably wouldn’t have agreed to the trip in the first place. 14 year olds don’t need to be in sight of an adult at all times.

Not PP, but it's basic courtesy. If I'm the adult in charge of a minor guest, I do not leave them to deal with an unfamiliar line in an airport. If I can't accompany them, I get someone else to do so: my own kid.

It's a point of etiquette.

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I MIGHT decide it is fine to send my own 14 year old alone in the airport but I can’t fathom taking responsibility for someone else’s and then sending them off alone without their parent ok’ing it. It’s not like they are walking down the airport hall to grab a bite - it’s the most important step of the airport process.

If the girls parent trusts OP to take their daughter on a trip, she is trusting her to make certain decisions. However they do it they will never even be out of each others site. It is less risky (to me) then sending friend to the restroom alone. I am not sure what the risk is? Friend forgot about a water bottle and has to talk to TSA person. 14 year old can do that.

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Anonymous wrote:FFS what is wrong with you.

It’s insane people like this exist.

Simmer down. She's not sending her to a foreign country alone. She's sending her to a different line 2 feet away. What's wrong with you??

OP, I get you on the medical issues. I have a kid with one and get the ease of using precheck. I'd send the two girls to the regular line together.

You are vacationing together not going on a work trip, just stand in line together, it's not that big of a deal.

It's not about safety it's about having manners.

OP said she had a medical issue that is quicker to go through precheck with.

If you have a medical device that cannot go through the body scanner and you use precheck to avoid that, that's a good enough reason to separate. Otherwise you have to wait for a patdown and search of your devices.

OP ignore the harpies on here. Send the girls together. They will be fine. It's not like you won't be able to see them the entire time.

Bad advice unless you get the ok for this crazy plan from the girl's mom. I would be pretty mad if someone left my child that was a guest with them unaccompanied at the airport like this.

Your 14 year old can’t go through a line alone? You probably wouldn’t have agreed to the trip in the first place. 14 year olds don’t need to be in sight of an adult at all times.

Not PP, but it's basic courtesy. If I'm the adult in charge of a minor guest, I do not leave them to deal with an unfamiliar line in an airport. If I can't accompany them, I get someone else to do so: my own kid.

It's a point of etiquette.

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I MIGHT decide it is fine to send my own 14 year old alone in the airport but I can’t fathom taking responsibility for someone else’s and then sending them off alone without their parent ok’ing it. It’s not like they are walking down the airport hall to grab a bite - it’s the most important step of the airport process.

If the girls parent trusts OP to take their daughter on a trip, she is trusting her to make certain decisions. However they do it they will never even be out of each others site. It is less risky (to me) then sending friend to the restroom alone. I am not sure what the risk is? Friend forgot about a water bottle and has to talk to TSA person. 14 year old can do that.

Adding that I think OPs DD would be happy to accompany friend to regular line if it avoided discussing some kind of medical condition that embarasses her mom.

[Anonymous]

No, you don't leave someone else's 14 year old alone in a security line when you've accepted responsibility for her. JFC

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Anonymous wrote:FFS what is wrong with you.

It’s insane people like this exist.

Simmer down. She's not sending her to a foreign country alone. She's sending her to a different line 2 feet away. What's wrong with you??

OP, I get you on the medical issues. I have a kid with one and get the ease of using precheck. I'd send the two girls to the regular line together.

You are vacationing together not going on a work trip, just stand in line together, it's not that big of a deal.

It's not about safety it's about having manners.

OP said she had a medical issue that is quicker to go through precheck with.

If you have a medical device that cannot go through the body scanner and you use precheck to avoid that, that's a good enough reason to separate. Otherwise you have to wait for a patdown and search of your devices.

OP ignore the harpies on here. Send the girls together. They will be fine. It's not like you won't be able to see them the entire time.

Bad advice unless you get the ok for this crazy plan from the girl's mom. I would be pretty mad if someone left my child that was a guest with them unaccompanied at the airport like this.

Your 14 year old can’t go through a line alone? You probably wouldn’t have agreed to the trip in the first place. 14 year olds don’t need to be in sight of an adult at all times.

Agree! My kid started flying alone at 5. 14 is plenty old enough to go thru security. 14 year olds are married and have babies in some parts of the world. Others go off to boarding school alone. Sheesh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter and her friends are both 14. The friend does not have TSA Precheck on her boarding pass. I'm trying to avoid going through regular security because of some medical issues that always slow things down. Can I send the friend through regular security unaccompanied? Will she need to present ID?

I’d try calling the airport or the airline and see if they have advice, and maybe try asking for ideas on TSA or airport forums.

My guess would be that the TSA people have a lot of discretion over how they manage the lines. The hard part is figuring out how to ask for discretion.

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Anonymous wrote:FFS what is wrong with you.

It’s insane people like this exist.

Simmer down. She's not sending her to a foreign country alone. She's sending her to a different line 2 feet away. What's wrong with you??

OP, I get you on the medical issues. I have a kid with one and get the ease of using precheck. I'd send the two girls to the regular line together.

You are vacationing together not going on a work trip, just stand in line together, it's not that big of a deal.

It's not about safety it's about having manners.

OP said she had a medical issue that is quicker to go through precheck with.

If you have a medical device that cannot go through the body scanner and you use precheck to avoid that, that's a good enough reason to separate. Otherwise you have to wait for a patdown and search of your devices.

OP ignore the harpies on here. Send the girls together. They will be fine. It's not like you won't be able to see them the entire time.

Bad advice unless you get the ok for this crazy plan from the girl's mom. I would be pretty mad if someone left my child that was a guest with them unaccompanied at the airport like this.

Your 14 year old can’t go through a line alone? You probably wouldn’t have agreed to the trip in the first place. 14 year olds don’t need to be in sight of an adult at all times.

Agree! My kid started flying alone at 5. 14 is plenty old enough to go thru security. 14 year olds are married and have babies in some parts of the world. Others go off to boarding school alone. Sheesh!

Your child did not go through security unaccompanied at 5. Bullshit.

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Anonymous wrote:Should be fine. DS flew today from BWI with no pre check and said security completely empty virtually no line for anyone.

iCloud to BWI all the time and the security there sucks sometimes you get lucky, but in general it’s pretty BWI sucks. It’s mine boggling Nick TSA can’t staff properly. It’s not like it’s a surprise that a certain number of people show up in a given time period. and they also have a pretty good idea of what security checkpoint they’re going through.

How do you take iCloud to BWI? I haven’t heard that one before.

[Anonymous]

I flew with my teenager and a friend of hers who does not have Precheck a month ago. We all waited in the regular security line together. It would have felt wrong to send her to the regular line on her own, or even with my daughter. Particularly since we were departing from Dulles and Precheck has a completely different entrance/location -- and our return trip had the same dynamic. But I think I would have made the same decision at DCA or BWI.

I don't know whether you would experience inconvenience, a complete hassle, embarrassment or something else given your medical issue, so can't really advise what I would do in your shoes. But that's the decision I made in our circumstances.

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Anonymous wrote:No, you don't leave someone else's 14 year old alone in a security line when you've accepted responsibility for her. JFC

Can she use the restroom alone? Purchase a snack?

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Anonymous wrote:Then send the girls together. Definitely not cool to have one go through precheck and the other not.

+1 this.

+2 Rude OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FFS what is wrong with you.

It’s insane people like this exist.

Simmer down. She's not sending her to a foreign country alone. She's sending her to a different line 2 feet away. What's wrong with you??

OP, I get you on the medical issues. I have a kid with one and get the ease of using precheck. I'd send the two girls to the regular line together.

You are vacationing together not going on a work trip, just stand in line together, it's not that big of a deal.

It's not about safety it's about having manners.

OP said she had a medical issue that is quicker to go through precheck with.

If you have a medical device that cannot go through the body scanner and you use precheck to avoid that, that's a good enough reason to separate. Otherwise you have to wait for a patdown and search of your devices.

OP ignore the harpies on here. Send the girls together. They will be fine. It's not like you won't be able to see them the entire time.

Bad advice unless you get the ok for this crazy plan from the girl's mom. I would be pretty mad if someone left my child that was a guest with them unaccompanied at the airport like this.

Your 14 year old can’t go through a line alone? You probably wouldn’t have agreed to the trip in the first place. 14 year olds don’t need to be in sight of an adult at all times.

Agree! My kid started flying alone at 5. 14 is plenty old enough to go thru security. 14 year olds are married and have babies in some parts of the world. Others go off to boarding school alone. Sheesh!

The fact that other kids have sad childhoods is not a reason for OP to send the kid by herself through security