The American airline Spirit Airlines placed a six-year-old boy who was traveling alone on the wrong flight and who ended up in a different destination than the one he was supposed to go to, according to several local media reports this Monday.
The events occurred on December 21, when the minor mistakenly boarded a flight in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) that took him to Orlando (Florida), 400 kilometers from Fort Myers, which was his true destination and where his grandmother was waiting for him. .
Speaking to local network WINK News, a Spirit spokesperson apologized to the boy’s family and announced the opening of an investigation into what happened.
The airline assures that the minor was always accompanied by Spirit personnel and that when they realized the error they contacted his family so they could be reunited.
The boy’s grandmother, María Ramos, told the same network that she was waiting for her grandson at the Fort Myers airport and that she panicked when they told her that the minor was not on board the plane. His suitcase, however, did arrive at the correct destination.
EFE contacted Spirit this Monday but the company has not yet offered more details about the incident.
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 her another child who was flying from the Dominican Republic at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
