wherebee Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 So - be interested if someone can also post this on mumsnet to see if we get a different bunch of replies here vs there?! Assume the airlines give a chaperone service from start to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 So - be interested if someone can also post this on mumsnet to see if we get a different bunch of replies here vs there?! Assume the airlines give a chaperone service from start to finish. I believe you have to be 17 to get a PPL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longtomsilver2 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 I believe you have to be 17 to get a PPL. Can't you start the training at 16 though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Banner Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 So - be interested if someone can also post this on mumsnet to see if we get a different bunch of replies here vs there?! Assume the airlines give a chaperone service from start to finish. Surely that should be up to the parents, who know their child best, although parental choice seems to be out of fashion in these days of state interference in all aspects of everyday life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 I have no views whatsoever on this but thought I'd post anyway while I wait for my parsnips. And that's not a euphemism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Sorry, read it literally and thought it meant kids piloting aircraft! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 What is the question? Getting on a plane is like getting on a bus, but driving it is a different matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little fish Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 My brother and I traveled as unaccompanied minors at least 8 return flights a year for 7 years. I was 8 when we started and he was 7. We usually travelled BA, went from Belfast to London, often with a long stop over in Heathrow, occasionally over night and then on to wherever my parents were at the time. While ago now so flying wasn't the norm that it is now. We loved it and were treated like stars. We were taken to the cockpit on every journey to get our log books updated and signed by the pilot. And If you got an extra nice pilot we even went to the cockpit just before landing and got to speak to my dad who was in the control tower. I don't remember one negative incident occurring, anything but. It started me on a life long love of people watching & travelling. My son started travelling on his own as an unaccompanied minor at 10. Service was just as good although some of the treats we got (cockpit and freedom to run around Heathrow) were not offered. I suppose health & safely wouldn't allow it now. Have happily sent him on Emirates and BA - he preferred Emirates. The airlines take unaccompanied minor care very seriously - I wouldn't have any concerns about it. And yes children are chaperoned from hand over at the first airport right to delivery with the agreed person at the final destination. edited coz I'm an illiterate mare sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 What sort of Aircraft? They could fly a prop no problem but a jet engine ... probably not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wherebee Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 DAMN MY CHOICE OF WORDS. I meant, obviously, kids flying on commercial airlines as passengers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steppenpig Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Although I generally think kids are far too much coccooned these days, I voted for the snakes. If nothing else, problems crop up on flights all the time. You could easily end up stuck for days in the middle of nowhere, and you need things like large supplies of money to cope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ayatollah Buggeri Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 The issue is not their age; it's whether or not they've been brought up to behave. I've flown (as a passenger) in proximity to two year-olds who I barely knew were there, and teenagers who should have been transported in leg irons in the cargo hold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 DAMN MY CHOICE OF WORDS. I meant, obviously, kids flying on commercial airlines as passengers. It wasn't obvious, for a while I thought you were talking about demon possessed levitating sprogs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendy Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I voted 11-13 and that would be my answer for either equation of the question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Although I generally think kids are far too much coccooned these days, I voted for the snakes. If nothing else, problems crop up on flights all the time. You could easily end up stuck for days in the middle of nowhere, and you need things like large supplies of money to cope. Under a certain age kids are classed as unaccompanied minors. In my airline days we used to have 'aunties' accompanying the younger ones, being e.g. sent at 8 or so back from Uganda or Kenya to boarding school. Well remember one such crying nearly all the way back, saying he hated it, he was bottom of the class, etc. Felt so sorry for him. But if there had been any problem en route (I seem to recall an unscheduled nightstop in Tunis with an UnMin on board) any such child would of course have been looked after by either the 'auntie' or the crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turned Out Nice Again Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 children should definitely have flying companions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 children should definitely have flying companions. Ah! Demon possessed levitating sprogs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Under a certain age kids are classed as unaccompanied minors. In my airline days we used to have 'aunties' accompanying the younger ones, being e.g. sent at 8 or so back from Uganda or Kenya to boarding school. Well remember one such crying nearly all the way back, saying he hated it, he was bottom of the class, etc. Felt so sorry for him. But if there had been any problem en route (I seem to recall an unscheduled nightstop in Tunis with an UnMin on board) any such child would of course have been looked after by either the 'auntie' or the crew. I have fond memories of being looked after overnight by a Dan-Air flight hostess. But then, I was 22 and she was 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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