There is no "child flying alone" option
This is the fact that reshapes the whole trip. Confirm current details at avianca.com.
Avianca used to escort children traveling alone; it ended that service. There is now no program — paid or otherwise — that lets airline staff supervise a child in place of an adult. If you were counting on sending a child solo, that plan doesn't work on Avianca.
Since early 2024, Avianca requires travelers under 14 on its domestic and international flights to be accompanied by a parent or a responsible adult. The accompanying adult must be at least 18.
A 15-year-old may travel without an accompanying adult, but there's still no supervision service; they travel exactly as an adult would, and are responsible for their own connections and documents.
A child must be on a reservation associated with an accompanying adult. This is how eligibility is enforced — there's no way to book a young child on their own.
Leaving Colombia with a child: the exit permit
A Colombian legal requirement — not Avianca's rule — and the one that stops families at the airport.
When a child leaves Colombia with only one parent — or with someone who isn't a legal representative — they need prior authorization from the absent parent(s), notarized before a notary or consulate. It must state the destination, the purpose of the trip, and the exit and re-entry dates.
If custody hasn't been assigned by a judge to one parent or a third party, the child cannot leave without authorization from both parents. This catches a lot of separated families off guard.
Requirements change and can vary by nationality and destination. Confirm the current rules with Migración Colombia (and the destination country's consulate) well before you fly — Avianca itself tells travelers to do this.
Other countries on your route may have their own minor-exit rules too. Tell us the full routing and we'll flag what each stop requires — but the notarized documents are between you, a notary/consulate and the authorities.
How we set a child's trip up so it works
With no escort service, the whole plan hinges on the adult and the documents.
Because there's no unaccompanied-minor path, the booking has to be built around an accompanying adult from the start — the child on the same reservation, seated together, with the right documents for every country on the route. If you're separated or co-parenting, the exit-permit rules are where trips fall apart, so we walk through your exact situation: who's traveling, whose authorization you need, and whether a notarized permit or a consular one applies.
Tell us the ages, who can travel with the child, and the cities, and we'll tell you plainly whether the trip is possible as planned — and if a child truly can't be accompanied, the realistic alternatives rather than a booking that fails at the gate.
Don't assume a "kids fly alone" program exists — on Avianca it doesn't. Families plan to send a child to grandparents in Colombia solo, then discover at booking there's no escort service and, on top of that, an exit-permit they hadn't heard of. Call us first with the ages and who can travel, and we'll build a plan that actually clears the airport.
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