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Unaccompanied child put on wrong flight
Budget carrier Spirit Airlines apologized after it put a six-year old unaccompanied minor on the wrong flight.
The airline admitted the boy was ‘incorrectly boarded.’
Still, it could have been worse, as the boy flew to the correct state.
He was traveling from Philadelphia to be picked up by his grandmother, Maria Ramos, in Fort Myers, Florida but instead arrived in Orlando.
It is a four-hour drive away.
Spirit Airlines apologized and offered to compensate Ms Ramos for the drive to Orlando.
“I ran inside the plane to the flight attendant and I asked her, ‘Where’s my grandson? He was handed over to you at Philadelphia?'” she told a TV reporter.
“We take the safety and responsibility of transporting all of our guests seriously and are conducting an internal investigation,” the airline said.
It is not the first time an unaccompanied minor has been put on a wrong flight.
And in 2019, a child was boarded on a United Airlines flight to Germany by mistake when he was supposed to be flying to Sweden.
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