Originally Posted by
sbagdon
Breakdown: If the 13yo was a UM...
Concerns: if the 13yo was not a UM...
The issue is, a minor, specifically a young-minor, has no representation at a good portion of the security process.
Yeah. Seems like this summer I've seen more teens flying without UM paperwork. I was wondering why until I looked up the UM fees (note these are per leg, so it can be as high as $200 per ticket):
http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/blog/...ine-fee-chart/
I flew a lot when I was a young teen because my parents lived ~1,000 miles away from most of the family and I flew in the summer to see them. I hated the UM paperwork because getting on a plane was pretty simple and the airline escorts always seemed to want to be someplace else. (I'm old enough to remember that before TWA 800, anybody who could clear security could go to the gate.) In those days, all you had to worry about was the airline. These days, you have to worry more about getting your children to the gate.
Where is our Joseph Welch? Somebody to ask John Pistole the question: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"; see
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/...of_decency.htm)