I hope the hive mind can help with finding a book for me. Many moons ago, back in the late 80s I think it was. I'm very sure I heard this story on Danish radio. Set in Sweden a child with divorced parents had to travel between them by flying back and forth from northern and southern Sweden. Back then you could "hand over" a child to the airport and flight staff for them to accompany the children to the destination. In the story the staff had help someone urgently and parked the child (main character) at a check in desk. This was where everything went wrong for the parents and staff but the adventure started. As the child took a handful of the tags that the children got to show where they were going. And they would swap these tags around so it say LAX, LHR, JFK etc. as they got put onto different flights around the world.

Am I dreaming or is this really a book?

Thanks!

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@woollypigs How cool! A bit like the cupboard to Narnia, but for airports.

Nervous parents will now be having nightmares!

@Nigel_Lake yeah, no way a child could do that today with all the helicopter and bubble wrap parents are using ;)

@woollypigs @Nigel_Lake three times I flew as child unaccompanied. That was over four decades ago, and about ten years after a (about four hours) train journey with my sister (also quite young).

I couldn't imagine it happening now.

@vicarvernon @woollypigs @Nigel_Lake I think you still can, ten years ago our niece came to visit us this way...