Some parents moan about how they have to service their offspring’s hectic social lives.<\/p>\n
Family cars bearing notices such as ‘Dad’s Taxi Service’ and ‘Unpaid Chauffeur’ cruise from destination to destination, to pick up or disgorge precious cargo.<\/p>\n
I wish my offspring-related issues were so mundane.<\/p>\n
This evening I have spent hours – hours! – trying to make Daughter’s trip happen.<\/p>\n
She wants to come and stay with me for a week or two in August.<\/p>\n
That’s nice.<\/p>\n
And while she’s here she wants to go to the Reading Festival.<\/p>\n
That’s fine, I can swing that.<\/p>\n
The big issue is getting her here.<\/p>\n
Daughter’s local airport (and I use the word ‘local’ in the widest possible terms) is Almeria.<\/p>\n
The two airlines that service direct routes between the UK and Almeria are RyanAir and EasyJet.<\/p>\n
But she can’t travel with either RyanAir or EasyJet because she’s 13 years old.<\/p>\n
Both of these airlines view her as an unaccompanied minor.<\/p>\n
And, according to their airline policies, she is not allowed to travel by herself.<\/p>\n
Iberia and British Airways would accept her as an unaccompanied minor, which is great.<\/p>\n
Except the nearest Spanish base both of those airlines operate from is Malaga.<\/p>\n
And Malaga is a long, long way from her home village.<\/p>\n
Such a long distance that Daughter’s mother is being highly resistant to making the trip.<\/p>\n
For either leg of the journey, let alone both.<\/p>\n
So if anyone from the ‘Unpaid Chauffeur’ service can come up with a solution to my problems, please feel free to let me know.<\/p>\n
If you’re wondering how I’ve done it in the past, on previous occasions I’ve:<\/p>\n
And done the reverse arrangements at the end of her holiday.<\/p>\n
Obv.<\/p>\n
Edit…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Lee, a Twitter buddy, has found bmibaby.com who have a weekly flight from Almeria to Nottingham.<\/p>\n And they’d accept Daughter as an\u00a0unaccompanied traveller.<\/p>\n But, weirdly, their website won’t let anyone actually book a journey for an unaccompanied 13-year old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some parents moan about how they have to service their offspring’s hectic social lives. Family cars bearing notices such as ‘Dad’s Taxi Service’ and ‘Unpaid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}