Flight help

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KDG

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Me and the Mrs are getting married in Crete in September 2025.

The plan is that we head out the week before the wedding with our two boys and then the boys head home with my inlaws after the wedding and me and the Mrs have a week long honeymoon.

The bit that im struggling with is:

The in-laws are heading out 2 weeks before the wedding - 1 week on their own and then a week with us in a villa building up to the big day. Obviously, they will book their flights and we will book our flights with the kids but we would not be going home with the kids and the kids wont be on their flight booking. This makes sense in my head but appears difficult to type......How could we do it so the boys can head home with them. Would the best option for them to book a outbound flight only and then book a seperate inbound flight with the kids - If so, how would that work with our flight out with the kids, would we just do the same.

If anyone can make sense of this, well done.
 
As long as the kids are booked on the correct flights each way there isn't a problem, particularly if you make sure to check in at the same time online and buy seats together.. Everyone will have their own boarding card and just queue up together.
 
I would make three seperate bookings:

1. In-laws return flights
2. Boys return flights
3. Yours and your wife's return flights
 
Might be worth checking on regs around the kids travelling back with someone other than their parents. The boy and I went on a trip to Germany last year via Amsterdam and coming back had a bit of a job persuading the staff at Schiphol that it was OK for him to travel with with me without some sort of written consent from his mother. Got sorted in the end, didn't need anything but did cause some confusion. And bear in mind I am his parent, not grandparent.

Expect this might be especially relevant if the kids and their grandparents have tickets from different bookings.
 
Magic Man said:
I would make three seperate bookings:

1. In-laws return flights
2. Boys return flights
3. Yours and your wife's return flights
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That won't work because if the boys are under 14 (which I'm assuming they are) they can't travel on their own - I know they won't be, but that's what return tickets booked for them on their own will imply. I think the only way to do it is ...

1. In-laws single tickets out
2. Parents and boys single tickets out
3. In-laws and boys single tickets back
4. Parents single tickets back

Worth having a letter on them from the parents, giving their names and passport numbers (the parents) saying they authorise the boys to fly with their grandparents, giving their names and passport numbers

Edit - shouldn't cost any more buying single tickets as that's effectively doing when you buy a "return" - buying two single tickets
 
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