Unaccompanied minors on budget airlines
Not allowed. Not at all not nohow.
Not on Ryanair or Easyjet anyway, being the ones relevant to the route our kid needs to take.
So the choices appear to be:
(a) buy the kid a ticket on a full price airline for EUR 600, or:
(b) one of us flies out and accompanies the kid home, being three tickets on the budget airline, total lots less than EUR 600 but a hell of a lot of hassle.
Are those really the only options? We're talking about a reasonably bright 13yo here, with the airlines' limit being 14.