Originally Posted by
tanja
Your first paragraf doesnt always work. when my kids were minors and had fly on their own (international flights). I had to pay a sum for help at the airport.
This did not always work out as it suppossed to.
and I cant even imagine being working for an airline and accept this to happen to a child. And a child who I dont know. I would be terrified of the childs parents.
The first paragraph is mostly correct, as my brother and I used to fly around the country visiting relatives on summer vacation. I can't even imagine being that age in today's environment.
As to the airline's/the employee's responsibility, I have seen a few times where a gate agent escorts the UM and the charge dropping them off through the NoS-free employee lines where there is far less scrutiny than for other travelers. There may be a quiet move on the part of gate agents where they are proactively doing so to avoid the whole question. I've actually seen them pull people out of line to do so.