From getting through security checkpoints to dealing with unexpected flight delays, airline travel is messy and then some. To glide through the process as effortlessly as possible, you really need an airport dad in your crew. What, exactly, is an “airport dad”? The term went viral on TikTok around 2021, when kids began documenting their hyperfocused, multitasking dads in airports.
Such dads handle a number of thankless tasks at the airport: Carrying the group’s boarding passes, ensuring that everyone gets to the airport with ample time to go through security, making sure transportation is booked to and from the airport. They do it all with gusto ― and usually while making dad jokes. (We should give it up to moms here, too; dads may take over mental load at the airport but it’s generally mom who packed the suitcases, ensured everyone has the correct clothes for the climate and enough SPF.
) The Airport Dad #dadjokes #fyp #summer #vacation #dadsoftiktok #airportdad You don’t necessarily have to be an actual dad (or even a man) to inhabit the role of airport dad: On TikTok , you’ll find plenty of 20-something, childless airport daddies fearlessly leading their groups through the airport. Airport dadding is for everyone ― and given how stressful travel is lately, we need more of them out there. With that in mind, we asked airport dads to share the tips they’d give someone looking to take on the role.
Travel blogger Lee Huffman has two kids, ages 9 and 13, both of.