Originally Posted by saltspring

I'm Canadian. When flying back to Japan from Canada in August alone with my son (who has both Japanese and Canadian nationality), the check-in agent asked to see my wife's travel consent letter. She asked it like she assumed that I had it (which I did, but that's besides the point). I showed it to her, and that was that. My question is, if I didn't have the letter, would she have denied me boarding? We weren't going to a third country - he was a citizen of both of the countries that we were travelling between. Does Air Canada have a policy about this? I found no information about an official policy on its website, and my travel agent said so too. If they had such a policy, then of course I could understand being asked for a travel consent letter, but couldn't find any information to indicate that they did, so I don't know why I was asked.