Originally Posted by
clarkef
That's not the issue. It's not that a close relation is on the plane, it's that the close relation cannot exit the plane by themselves. By far the most likely scenario would be a parent traveling with a young child. I daresay that scenario is more common than any others that you've posited.
But the child has another parent with them in the OP’s situation. And in some of the situations other posters mentioned as rules or past experiences.
I went off topic tangent there, my bad. Just find this topic interesting!