I can remember several years ago when I was trying to book a flight for my under-age niece to fly from her parents home to my place, about seven hundred miles apart. Although I had Internet Access, and tried to book the flight online the entire process was a huge problem because I was the one doing the booking I had to actually drive to the airport two weeks before her flight. I had to go to the ticket counter of the airline that she was going to be flying with to show my identification and to pay for the ticket. I was shocked about that requirement, because the ticket was being paid by credit card!

When I talked to the airline representatives on the telephone about that, they gave me some kind of song and dance (I don’t remember exactly what it was now) that seemed extremely unreasonable at the time. They told me that I didn’t have to drive all of the way to the airport (which was a ninety minute drive for me) to show my identification, I just had to go to their nearest booking agency. Well, the nearest travel agency to me was the triple A agency, so I tried going there to do that. Going to triple A was only a thirty minute drive, so that wasn’t quite as bad. However the people there told me that they could not do what needed to be done, so I ended up driving all of the way to the airport, just to show them my doggone identification!

When I was online earlier today, reading about the unaccompanied minor services and medical services at the kuwait airways online booking website, I was reminded of the incident about my niece several years ago. Not that I was actually planning to BOOK a flight for my niece on that airline, but I did find myself wondering if they required the same type of thing how in the world would I be able to take care of that situation!