Minors traveling alone

Minors traveling alone

Domestic Travel
  • Only unaccompanied minors between the ages of 07 and 18 years of age are allowed, they must have an authorization from their legal representative.
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  • They cannot travel on domestic flights after 18:00 hrs.
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  • Request the respective service confirmation in the reservation through a SR (special service request) and must be issued as an adult passenger.
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  • The unaccompanied minor's representative must make the necessary arrangements for the check-in and boarding of the minor.
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  • It is mandatory for the passenger to present original and copy of each document.
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  • It is mandatory to inform at the time of making the reservation the last name, first name, identity card, telephone number and address of the person who will take you to the airport and who will receive you.
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  • Children and adolescents traveling alone or with third parties within the country require authorization from a legal representative, issued by the Council for the Protection of Children and Adolescents, by a civil authority or by means of an authenticated document.
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    NOTE: In Cessna Caravan equipment only one (1) minor traveling alone (UMNR) will be allowed because there is no cabin crew, in ATR-42 equipment two (2) minors traveling alone will be allowed.

    Foreign travel for minors

    Organic Law for the Protection of Children and Adolescents (LOPNA) Articles 392 and 393

    Authorizations to travel
    1. If the child or adolescent is accompanied by only one of his or her legal representatives (father or mother), the other legal representative who is not accompanying him or her must go to the Notary Public's Office to apply for a travel authorization for his or her son or daughter.

      2. Note: You cannot go to a protection council, it is only processed by the Notary Public's office.

    2. If the child or adolescent travels alone or is accompanied by a third party (grandparents, aunts, uncles, older siblings, cousins, friends, etc.), the child or adolescent must go to the Notary Public's office.) the two (2) legal representatives or the one who legally represents them, must go to a Notary Public's office to apply for an authorization to travel for their son or daughter.

      3. Note: This procedure can also be done before a protection council and it is not necessary to be authenticated before the Notary Public.

      1. If one of the parents or both parents are abroad, the other legal representative or the person who legally represents him/her within the national territory, may request the authorization to travel before the competent courts in the matter of children and adolescents of his/her national judicial district.
      2. Also, one or both parents can go to the Venezuelan consulate nearest to their residence in order to process the authorization to travel for their son or daughter.
      3. In case of not being able to go to the Venezuelan consulate for reasons beyond their control, one of the parents or both parents can go to a Notary Public in the city where they reside in order to process the authorization to travel of their son or daughter and said authorization must be apostilled, according to the Hague Convention

      If the authorization is apostilled, it does not need to be validated by the Venezuelan consulate.

      Note: Any of the three (3) ways used are valid to process the child's authorization to travel.