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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Note an 11 year old flies as an unaccompanied minor. They're not going to lose their passport because the flight crew holds it for them, and they arne't going to get confused in immigration, because the staff will escort them the entire way until an adult shows up to collect them. This is different from sending your MIL on a flight -- she's an adult and doesn't get that special treatment.

Some airlines have a policy that a UM can't be seated next to a male traveling alone.[/quote]

What happens if they end up in another airport, can't fly out til next day, have to get a hotel room.  What does the Airline staff do for them then?  Serious question.  [/quote]

Those situations are highly unliekly, but if so, they'd have a staff member babysit them for that time.[/quote]

That's a huge assumption.  I did a quick google search on abandoned unaccompanied airline minors.  Here are a few results.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/07/21/bumped-from-an-overbooked-flight-this-unaccompanied-minor-was-left-alone-at-the-gate/?utm_term=.d6794670e8bc
https://www.travelpulse.com/news/impacting-travel/8-year-old-boy-left-alone-in-germany-after-unaccompanied-minor-program-fails.html
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/1426059-neglected-unaccompanied-minor.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/easyjet-unaccompanied-child-removed-overbooked-flight-minor-london-gatwick-toulouse-a7852811.html

And so on.  I wouldn't trust my kids to a babysitter I've never met, why would I send them on a flight to a foreign country and have faith that complete strangers, because they happen to work for the airline, are going to do the right and responsible thing?  How do you know they aren't going to come in contact with a pedophile, rapist, whatever?  Airline employees can't be criminals?  Do a google search on "airline employee arrested".

But, hey, you raise your kids your way, and I'll do mine.

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