Children Flying Alone

A new booklet from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides advice to the parents of children who must travel alone by air. When Kids Fly Alone (download pdf) notes that while there are no DOT regulations governing unaccompanied minors on airlines, the carriers have various rules on the ages of children they will allow to travel alone and special procedures they use to safeguard children who are traveling without an adult.