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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At 10 and 13, yes I would do this.  Especially together.

Younger than 10, no I don't think so.  I also don't take the whole idea that because people did this in the 80s and 90s that it's ok today.  Airline travel was completely different in the 80s and no one really cared if kids felt emotionally ready to do things and damn are we seeing that now!  Ask Gen X how their anxiety is treating them.

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I mean, I’m Gen X, and flew in the 80s internationally alone starting at age 8 and I don’t have anxiety. And no one could meet me at the gate at my destination because I had to clear customs alone with my suitcase. Even though I was an unaccompanied minor and had a badge, the airline people couldn’t escort me through that either.

That said, with flights and such the way they are and cancellations and all, I’m personally hesitant to allow my 12 year old to fly solo. I feel like the COVID years caused us to miss out on the formative years of flying as a family and her learning how to navigate airports and such. I mean, I was sitting in the airport myself recently at 6am when I got a message my much later in the day in a different time zone flight was already canceled. If it had happened about 10 minutes later I would have had my phone in airplane mode and wouldn’t have seen the message for 5 hours and likely been blocked out of rescheduling at that point. I would have been fine, but what would my kid have done in a similar scenario, arriving to find no connecting flight?[/quote]

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