Airline staff allegedly told boy’s grandmother that he missed his flight

Spirit Airlines issued an apology after putting a six-year-old unaccompanied minor on the wrong flight.

The child was set to fly on Thursday from Philadelphia International Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida, to visit his grandmother, WINK-TV reported.

Instead, the boy was “incorrectly boarded” on a flight to Orlando, Spirit acknowledged in a statement on Saturday.

The statement did not address how the error came to take place - during a busy holiday travel day.

  • squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world
    223·
    6 months ago

    “Unaccompanied minor” shouldn’t even be a thing on a flight. Sounds like a parenting problem to me, rather than a problem with an airline.

    • skeezix@lemmy.world
      151·
      6 months ago

      Thats a narrow position. It shouldn’t be a thing when there’s a choice in the matter. There are times when there is no choice.

    • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
      6·
      6 months ago

      Nah, it’s fine. I did it a lot as a kid. Very rarely does a kid end up in the wrong place.