3 Fla. kids buy plane tickets, fly alone to Tenn.


Posted on August 13, 2010 at 5:31 AM

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Three Florida children bought tickets with baby-sitting money and flew to Nashville, Tenn., on Southwest Airlines — unbeknownst to their parents.

Fifteen-year-old Bridget Brown had $700 saved and asked a 13-year-old friend where he wanted to go.

The friend, Bobby Nolan III, suggested Nashville.

Together with Brown's 11-year-old brother, the three took a taxicab to Jacksonville International Airport and bought three tickets at the counter. The children say no one asked them for identification.

They called their parents from Nashville and immediately flew home.

Southwest Airlines says the company's minor policy covers children ages five through 11 traveling alone, and that the 11-year-old in this case was accompanied by two older companions.

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Information from: WJXT-TV, http://www.news4jax.com/index.html

thats unusual, how would they know their age without asking for id? I know my son traveled alone during those ages but their had to be an adult accompany him to the ticket counter and an adult to pick him up at the airport,,,,,

each airline has their own policies I guess

As a parent, I would show POed at lil' Ms Brown. Inside, I would have been a little proud she was so clever.