Accompanied children flying
Sep 13, 2005, 9:54 am
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Accompanied children flying
I am travelling with my four children (ages 2-11) on Spirit Airlines from Atlantic City to Tampa. Are there requirements for ID for kids? I hate to bring birth certificates, and obviously they have no other ID. What are requirements for kids travelling with parents?
Sep 13, 2005, 10:06 am
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Originally Posted by cdepks
I am travelling with my four children (ages 2-11) on Spirit Airlines from Atlantic City to Tampa. Are there requirements for ID for kids? I hate to bring birth certificates, and obviously they have no other ID. What are requirements for kids travelling with parents?
I'll leave this thread visible here on the Travel Safety/Security Forum so that those reading your thread here can answer it in that Forum.
Hope you have a pleasant trip.
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Sep 13, 2005, 10:25 am
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Originally Posted by cdepks
I am travelling with my four children (ages 2-11) on Spirit Airlines from Atlantic City to Tampa. Are there requirements for ID for kids? I hate to bring birth certificates, and obviously they have no other ID. What are requirements for kids travelling with parents?
The "belt and suspender" crowd will disagree and say "there's no harm in bringing ID," but in my view, that's just more paper to misplace and perhaps lose on the trip.
Have a great time in Tampa.
Sep 13, 2005, 11:40 am
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My wife and I have taken our two kids on a lot of flights over the years. Even when only one of us is traveling with them, we have never been asked for their IDs, birth certs. or anything else (domestically). These things are completely unnecessary domestically.
TSA might ask your kids to say their names, but that's the topic of a different thread.
TSA might ask your kids to say their names, but that's the topic of a different thread.
Sep 13, 2005, 1:03 pm
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Originally Posted by cdepks
I am travelling with my four children (ages 2-11) on Spirit Airlines from Atlantic City to Tampa. Are there requirements for ID for kids? I hate to bring birth certificates, and obviously they have no other ID. What are requirements for kids travelling with parents?
Sep 13, 2005, 1:29 pm
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Originally Posted by CDTraveler
Are both parents traveling with the kids, or just you? In some cases, if children are traveling with just one parent, the traveling parent may be asked to prove that they have the other parent's permission for the kids to travel. Usually this is only an issue with travel to another country, but I have also been asked for it on 2 domestic trips now.
Sep 13, 2005, 4:24 pm
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Originally Posted by CDTraveler
Are both parents traveling with the kids, or just you? In some cases, if children are traveling with just one parent, the traveling parent may be asked to prove that they have the other parent's permission for the kids to travel. Usually this is only an issue with travel to another country, but I have also been asked for it on 2 domestic trips now.
Sep 13, 2005, 4:42 pm
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Originally Posted by dhuey
Which airline(s) asked you for this, CDTraveler?
Some countries, wishing not to get in the middle of child custody fights, demand this type of parental permission before allowing in a solo adult w/ minor child - I think Mexico is one, not sure about Canada.
p.s. son and I have different last names, if it matters
Sep 13, 2005, 8:19 pm
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Originally Posted by Sydney
Doesn't seem like it'd provide any safeguards since anyone can write a letter and sign any signature they want. How do they make sure it's relly the other parent's name and signature?
It is one thing for the Mexican Immigration personnel to require an authorization but quite another for an airline employee to screw around with such nonsense.
Sep 13, 2005, 8:26 pm
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Originally Posted by FWAAA
Correct. @:-)
It is one thing for the Mexican Immigration personnel to require an authorization but quite another for an airline employee to screw around with such nonsense.
It is one thing for the Mexican Immigration personnel to require an authorization but quite another for an airline employee to screw around with such nonsense.
Sep 13, 2005, 8:36 pm
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Yes, but asking for a passenger's passport is different to asking for a permission slip for every child travelling with one parent that can't even be verified. What's to stop someone saying that they're a sole parent even if they didn't go through the trouble of forging a note?
I just think it's another silly step that achieves no purpose other than giving people an extra something to do.
I just think it's another silly step that achieves no purpose other than giving people an extra something to do.
Sep 13, 2005, 8:53 pm
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For travel to Mexico, you are required to have a notarized letter if only one parent is traveling with a child under 18 years of age. Even though Mexican Immigration rarely asks for the letter, it is well within the rights of an airline to deny boarding if passengers don't have the letter.
Sep 13, 2005, 10:55 pm
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I think the notarized letter requirement makes sense for international travel. Forging a signature is one thing, but most people know that if they obtain a notarization via fraud, they are committing a significant crime.