by Ned S. Levi | Nov 13, 2023
Things can go wrong when tips to aid unaccompanied minors are ignored, particularly when taking connecting flights. Last year, during the summer, Amber Vencill had her 10 and 12-year-old sons put on an American Airlines flight from Springfield, MO, to Charlotte, NC,...
by Janice Hough | Mar 2, 2016
A Robert Benchley quote says, “There are two kinds of travel, first class and with children.” And, when not traveling with their own children, few travelers look forward to the idea of traveling with someone else’s kids. Personally, I’ve had...
by Karen Fawcett | Aug 17, 2010
James Brown was surprised to receive this call. He didn’t even know the kids were missing. His fifteen-year-old daughter Bridget, his eleven-year-son Kodie, and Bobby Nolan, a neighborhood friend, were in another state. They’d taxied to the Jacksonville,...
by Janice Hough | Jul 28, 2010
Less than two months after Delta Airlines accidentally swapped unaccompanied minors connecting at Minneapolis, United Air Lines simply forgot about a child connecting in Chicago. One thing about embarrassing mistakes that get a lot of publicity, usually everyone is...
by Janice Hough | Jun 10, 2010
Paying baggage fees when the airline loses your baggage is galling. But pay hefty fees to have an airline take care of your children and them finding them flying to another city, hundreds of miles away, is enough to make the hair on the back of any parent’s neck...
