Posted on 06/16/2009 12:19:36 PM PDT by rawhide
Continental Airlines is apologizing for sending a 10-year-old Massachusetts girl flying alone to New Jersey instead of Ohio.
Jonathan Kamens says he brought his daughter, Miriam, to Logan International Airport in Boston on Sunday. She was to fly to Cleveland to visit her grandparents.
He tells WBZ-TV that shortly after the plane landed in Ohio, his father-in-law called saying she had not arrived.
Kamens says for 45 minutes no one could tell him where his daughter was, setting off a panic among the family. She was finally located unharmed in Newark, N.J.
The airline says the error was caused by staff miscommunication. The two flights used the same doorway at the airport.
Kamens says the number of people who failed to do their jobs is "mindboggling."
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I have always wondered why parents would put a child on a plane alone. Do they think the airline is a day care facility?
Home Alone 6
Indeed. Nobody will ever care about your child as much as you will. Which begs the question over where the first mindboggling failure occurred.
But they did verify that she packed her own suitcase, and had no liquids larger than 3 oz.
“Calling all lawyers!!!!”
“Calling all lawyers!!!!”
Soooo, Miriam? Do you like gladiator movies?...
This poor family must have been terrified...
I cant imagine...
Another casualty of America's divorce epidemic. Kids are placed on planes because most parents can't afford to buy an endless supply of round trip tickets.
I found out after I dropped off my nephews at the gate and left. They refused to let them fly on that plane, I had to return to the airport and see them off on another flight!
But that was in the late seventies and early eighties...
How many years were you eight?
(Born on Feb 29th, perhaps? </Pirates of Penzance>)
But that was in the late seventies and early eighties...
Just how long were you eight?
Well, the airline should make sure they have enough condoms
/sarc
“I have always wondered why parents would put a child on a plane alone. Do they think the airline is a day care facility?”
This never crossed my mind. Did you drive your kids to school instead of letting them ride the bus? It is that anal retentive my friend. My wife and I sent our kids across country several times alone. There is such thing as NON-STOP FLIGHTS DOOR TO DOOR.
There is such thing as grand parents on the other side of the frigging country. Nothing to do with divorce.
Excuse me, but did dad not have any responsibility of seeing with his own two eyes that his little 10 year old got on the right flight? For that matter why didn’t he fly with her or have the grandparents fly out to get her? I know parents today think this but the airline isn’t flying daycare center.
Newark and Cleveland...a matching pair of armpits.
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