How can a 14 year old travel to Germany from the UK without adult supervision?

8/21/2016 5:39:58 PM

Some twenty years ago, when I was under 10 years old, my parents lived in England with me but all our family was in Germany. I can remember two distinct instances of flying alone, LHR–FRA and LHR–TXL.

As far as I can remember, there was nothing special except that as an unaccompanied minor I got a person from the airline who accompanied me from where my parents checked in my bags to the aeroplane and the same thing from arriving at the gate to where my relatives were able to pick me up after luggage reclaim. (And vice-versa for the way back.) To be honest, I don’t know if there was any hidden paperwork involved that I wouldn’t have seen.

The documents I had with me were my ID (back in the day Germany had a Kinderausweis which has since been replaced by a child’s passport) and my carte jaune (‘just in case’).

They didn’t check everything, by the way. On the trip to FRA, I had a tennis racket with me that was in the suitcase outbound but checked in separately inbound. I totally forgot about it until I was back at home, so my father had to drive back to the airport to reclaim it. It went unnoticed by the people who accompanied me.

Bear in mind that my experience is from the mid-nineties. Things may have changed.

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