Traveling with Family? Know These Airport Rules
00:00:00.000 | There are a lot of countries where whether it's immigration or security, if you're with a family,
00:00:03.820 | they treat you much better. Yes, unfortunately, they definitely don't do that in the U.S. because
00:00:07.640 | they don't want to. Everyone here is equal. But yeah, in other countries, I've seen it where
00:00:11.140 | there's actually separate immigration lines. Now, this can play to your disadvantage sometimes too
00:00:15.280 | when you fly into the Rome airport, right? If you're a U.S. citizen with a U.S. passport that
00:00:21.300 | has one of those little chips in it, you can go through basically a biometric entry gate and get
00:00:25.820 | into the country faster. But if you're with children 18 and younger, you can't. So families
00:00:30.060 | are actually penalized in that case when you're arriving in Italy. In Mexico, we've often been
00:00:35.040 | pulled out of the line and said, hey, you have kids. Don't wait in this line. Go this way.
00:00:38.200 | I'm right through. Yes. Excellent. And it helps to sort of get the eye of somebody who's minding the
00:00:42.560 | security line or the immigration line and make sure that they're aware that you have children with you
00:00:46.420 | and they're crying maybe or, you know, you nudge them a little bit, right? Now, there are family lanes
00:00:50.840 | that offer security and sometimes immigration as well in certain countries. Again, I would be on the
00:00:55.600 | lookout for them the moment you get to the airport. They're not always well signposted,
00:01:00.560 | but they'll usually have a little family icon with a stroller and a couple parents and children in tow.