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Abaddon2u -> Warning : to flyers (8/20/2008 10:52:09 PM)
This is a difinitive W.T.F . I suppose you acan pay the extra $100.00 and send them cargo. http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=156653 Abaddon "You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going 'cause you might not get there ! " - Yogi Berra

sub4hire -> RE: Warning : to flyers (8/21/2008 11:24:14 AM)
I've put the kids on planes many times unescorted. Last time I did I think it cost me an extra 50 for the flight attendant to watch them. No idea how it could happen if they paid the fee. Generally you walk the child up and essentially put their hand in the flight attendants hand. It isn't like a flight attendant wouldn't know they were watching the child. Of course, these people may not have paid the fee for the service. We don't know.

camille65 -> RE: Warning : to flyers (8/21/2008 12:05:33 PM)
That happened to me when I was 8, in the Boston airport. I had one of those thingies hanging around my neck saying my name and that I was alone (oddly that system is no longer used). A stewardess pointed me in the direction to my next gate but I got lost. I was so shy and scared I ended up hiding behind a pillar until a very nice old guy found me and took me to a counter. Back then there was no news story about this sort of thing, it was a lapse in communication that didn't end badly so was really not a big deal. Actually I was blamed for hiding and not going to an employee for help which is what I should have done.

sirsholly -> RE: Warning : to flyers (8/21/2008 12:08:48 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: camille65 That happened to me when I was 8, in the Boston airport. I had one of those thingies hanging around my neck saying my name and that I was alone (oddly that system is no longer used). A stewardess pointed me in the direction to my next gate but I got lost. I was so shy and scared I ended up hiding behind a pillar until a very nice old guy found me and took me to a counter. Back then there was no news story about this sort of thing, it was a lapse in communication that didn't end badly so was really not a big deal. Actually I was blamed for hiding and not going to an employee for help which is what I should have done. oh Camille...that is just so wrong on so many levels. A tag stating you are alone and your name. That is unreal. But no real surprise when you consider they pointed an 8 yr old to a gate and let her go by herself.

sub4hire -> RE: Warning : to flyers (8/21/2008 12:41:38 PM)
That's just odd Camille. At no point did any of the kids ever have tags on them. Nor were they even allowed on the flight to go to the restroom themselves. Let alone to be pointed in a specific way to a gate. It was basically being escorted with their hand held the entire way from my hand to the hand I told them to put them in at the other end. With proper ID of course. Maybe different airlines do it different ways? Who knows..maybe they all are too cheap to do their job now anymore.

sirsholly -> RE: Warning : to flyers (8/21/2008 12:43:57 PM)
i am wondering is there is a difference in the type of airport...was one international and one not? i just keep reading Camilles post and shaking my head....thinking of what could have happened.

camille65 -> RE: Warning : to flyers (8/21/2008 12:45:14 PM)
It was 1973 and I have no idea what airline it was. I wore a lanyard type thing around my neck with my name and 'Child Flying Alone' on it. It also had my ticket in it. My parents probably assumed that since I was used to flying it would be no big deal, but I was too shy to ask for help and did what any normal kid would do.... I hid. [:D] Oh and yes I went to the bathroom all by myself too. ETA I was flying from Detroit, to Boston then to Marthas Vineyard on a teeny plane. Maybe it was the teeny plane bit but it wasn't the only time I was tagged and flew alone. It was just the only time I got lost in an airport! I still get lost in airports, now I just call R every few minutes so he can look online and guide my steps yay for having a personal navigational system.

sub4hire -> RE: Warning : to flyers (8/21/2008 2:34:03 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: sirsholly i am wondering is there is a difference in the type of airport...was one international and one not? The ones I used weren't international. Well LAX but I tried not to use it often. Mostly just a regional airport. The cost to pay them to more less babysit for me was almost the cost of the ticket. Yet, I couldn't take the chance of them getting lost. It was structured when I sent the kids. You checked them in...walked them to the door where you enter the plane. Handed their hand over to the stewardess. They sat them..put their bags away. The kids even got to go to the cockpit, which I imagined has changed since then. They usually sat them in a seat in first class, close to them. When the flight was over, they walked them out to whoever you had pre-arranged to pick them up. Looked at the ID..and let them go. It was sort of a fail safe. Of course this was in the late 80's and 90's. With cutting costs who knows what has changed?

DominaYork -> RE: Warning : to flyers (8/21/2008 2:53:50 PM)
Ah anyone else find this amusing? "I'm not going to be one of those parents that never see their child again, and we only have one." Would having a spare child make it better? Oh hey, no worries, don't go out of your way looking for Jill, we still have Billy and if Billy disappears we have a back up for him, meet Tommy.

sirsholly -> RE: Warning : to flyers (8/21/2008 3:01:05 PM)
i find nothing amusing about it

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