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Christmas nightmare: Frontier flies unaccompanied Tampa Bay minor to Puerto Rico instead of Cleveland
News Channel 8 Tampa ^ | 12/29/2023 | Walt Buteau

Posted on 12/30/2023 5:46:57 AM PST by cll

PARRISH, Fla. (WFLA) —It was a nightmare before Christmas for Parrish parents after their son was flown 1,200 miles south to Puerto Rico instead of 1,000 miles north to Cleveland.

Logan Lose, 16, waved goodbye to his family last Friday at Tampa International Airport and headed to his flight to visit his mom for the holidays. When he got to the gate, he saw other passengers boarding and got in line.

His father, Ryan said the Frontier Airlines boarding agent checked his son’s baggage, looked at his boarding pass on his phone and told him he could get on the jet.

“Logan said they didn’t scan it,” Ryan Lose said. “They would’ve known it was the wrong flight if they scanned the boarding pass.”

After landing in Puerto Rico, Lose texted his family in a panic.

“Help me please,” he said. “I’m so scared. They told me it was Ohio.”

“My first reaction was panic,” his father said. “He’s panicking, he’s scared, and I can’t be there to keep him safe.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: Florida; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: cle; frontier; frontierairlines; sju; tpa
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To: Ikeon

At 16 I drove non-stop from Palmdale California to Green Bay Wisconsin to visit my cousin and trade some car/truck parts.
Hit snow just west of Salt Lake City and drove through a screaming blizzard all the way to Green Bay.

Took 27 hours with just coffee and fuel stops.

Thought nothing of it, just counted cars and semis that were in the roadside ditches all the way out.

Most (not all) kids today are just pussies!


61 posted on 12/30/2023 10:17:08 AM PST by 5th MEB (1)
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To: 5th MEB

Sadly, that’s true. And most of it is because their parents didn’t love them enough to prepare them for life by letting them fail and suffer the consequences appropriate to their age as they matured. The hard/painful knocks of life can wise even the semi-stupid up pretty fast.


62 posted on 12/30/2023 10:39:35 AM PST by curious7
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To: cll
First assumption from the title is a small child. He should not have been allowed to board the wrong flight. But at sixteen HE should have noticed the sign at the gate read "San Juan".

Then again, who among us wouldn't have thought "Hmmmm, Cleveland lakefront in December ... or a beach in Puerto Rico. And they're not checking my boarding pass? Decisions, decisions."

63 posted on 12/30/2023 11:07:44 AM PST by katana
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To: cll

. “He’s panicking, he’s scared, and I can’t be there to keep him safe.”

Geez they don’t make 16 yr older Les like they used to.


64 posted on 12/30/2023 11:11:55 AM PST by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: cll

So sorry that he was retarded!😋


65 posted on 12/30/2023 11:40:45 AM PST by Recon Dad (Force Recon Dad)
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To: bgill

When I was 16 my dad gave me the keys to the car and told me to drive 300 miles round trip to pick my older sister up from college and bring her home for Thanksgiving. I had had my license for one month.


66 posted on 12/30/2023 12:06:09 PM PST by redangus ( )
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To: cll

Happening more than reported, 6 year old supposed to fly to Pittsburgh to see grandmother, she got text he was in NY, she drove 160 miles to retrieve him from airline, she was afraid where they might send him. This was just last week!!!!


67 posted on 12/30/2023 1:43:17 PM PST by conservativesister (.)
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To: cll

Other than the origin of the flight being Tampa Bay, the article omitted to say that the kid is mentally challenged. For the boy’s sake, I hope he did this deliberately.


68 posted on 12/30/2023 2:09:05 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: cll
I found this sentence unintentionally funny (I have estranged family living in Ohio): “I’m so scared. They told me it was Ohio.”
69 posted on 12/30/2023 2:23:09 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: cll

When Ivwas 16 I was visiting a friend in NYC, traveling alone. The same night Diana Ross had her concert in Central park rained out, my flight got rained out. I was stuck ion LaGuardia airport overnight. I was able to occupy myself, with my luggage, for 15 hours. I had to get rebooked. The flight in the morning departed out of a totally different gate. Why was I able to do this and not freak out at the first sign of trouble?


70 posted on 12/30/2023 2:54:38 PM PST by VideoPaul
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To: 5th MEB

👍


71 posted on 12/30/2023 7:48:51 PM PST by Ikeon (I stopped going to my family doctor whenever I felt sick. I've never been healthier. .)
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