North American carrier Spirit Airlines put a six-year-old boy, who was traveling alone to visit his grandmother for Christmas, on the wrong flight, leaving the child more than 250 miles away from his intended destination.
The story, with similarities to one of the films “Home Alone”, popular during the Christmas season, took place on December 21, when the minor accidentally boarded a flight in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), which took him to Orlando (Florida) brought, 400 kilometers away. of Fort Myers, which was his real destination and where his grandmother waited for him.
Speaking to local station WINK News, a Spirit spokesperson apologized to the boy’s family and announced the opening of an investigation into what happened.
The airline guarantees that the minor was always accompanied by Spirit employees and that upon realizing the mistake, they contacted the family so that they could be reunited.
The boy’s grandmother, María Ramos, told the same station that she was waiting for her grandson at the Fort Myers airport and panicked when she was told the child was not on the plane. However, your suitcase has arrived at the right destination.
The Washington Post newspaper recalled that a similar episode occurred in 2016, when Maribel Martínez sued JetBlue Airlines because the company confused her son and handed over another son flying from the Dominican Republic at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport .
Source: DN
