"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"tony roberts" wrote in message
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It really is a difficult decision.

Still, I find the "seperate the kids" line of thought to not be suited to
the real world, in spite of any rational basis for it. Families travel
together all the time. They do other things together all the time. They
are in constant danger of perishing simultaneously, through much of the
childhood of the children of a family. Even as adults, they are in
similar danger quite often.

Being a family means you do things together. If two children have a
desire to participate in a single flight together, I think some fear that
they both might die in the same accident isn't justification for
sacrificing the enjoyment they get from doing things together.

I'm not a parent so ignore this if you wish. I would think if you have your
(say) 10 and a 15 year old kids along with their friends for YE flights that
the each of the kids would prefer to fly with one of his friends of the same
age than with his sibling.

It would still be a major tragedy if something should happen in another YE
flight with siblings or non-siblings. I hope it's at least another 1.2
million YE flights before the next tragedy.

I used to work for a company that had a policy that prohibited several
people from the same department to fly on the same airline flight. When a
group of us would fly to Singapore, we would fly 2 separate days. I usually
flew on the first day but my luggage would arrive the next day. :-(

-Greg B.