 These are, according to the new TikTok trend, just some of the qualities that distinguish the Airport Dad. The video platform is full of humorous clips of dads leading their exhausted looking families to the airport against the dark morning skies, and then striding SAS like through the terminal - truly men on a mission. If you find yourself getting in more of a flap than your kids when stuck in a lengthy queue for security or stumped by the automatic check-in gates then you too may be an Airport Dad, according to the trend. Other tell-tale signs include cooking all the food in the house into one mega breakfast before jetting off on holiday, and insisting on being the one to place hold bags on the luggage conveyor belt. The light-hearted trend has seen family members and kids sharing clips of their dads or partners taking on the Airport Dad role - and other TikTok users have been quick to share how they relate. T){kind=link}
Airport Dads have been gently teased for their almost SAS like manner when moving through a terminal, collecting the family’s passports and organising the troops ready for take-off
A hilarious new viral trend pokes fun at the common British phenomenon of the ‘Airport Dad’.
It’s a character that will be familiar to anyone who has embarked on a family holiday overseas.
He’s the one who sets the alarm for the crack of dawn, hauling everyone up and out of the house in order to arrive a good five hours before scheduled take-off.
Once at the airport he checks, double checks and then triple checks that everyone has their passports, before insisting on keeping hold of them himself in a special passport wallet.