Posted on 12/24/2023 10:31:03 AM PST by End Times Sentinel
Spirit Airlines has apologized after it mistakenly put an unaccompanied child on the wrong flight during the holiday season travel rush.
The child was supposed to fly from Philadelphia International Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers on Thursday. But the minor was “incorrectly boarded” on a flight to Orlando, according to the airline.
“The child was always under the care and supervision of a Spirit Team Member, and as soon as we discovered the error, we took immediate steps to communicate with the family and reconnect them,” Spirit said in a statement Saturday.
“We take the safety and responsibility of transporting all of our Guests seriously and are conducting an internal investigation,” the airline added. “We apologize to the family for this experience.”
Spirit did not provide any information about the child or explain how the mistake happened. WINK-TV, a television station in Fort Myers, identified the child as a 6-year-old first-time flyer who was supposed to visit his grandmother.
“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 said, ‘No, I had no kids with me,’” Maria Ramos, the boy’s grandma, told WINK-TV.
Fortunately, Ramos’ grandchild called her and said he had landed — 160 miles away. She told WINK-TV that she wants answers.
“I want them to call me [and] let me know how my grandson ended up in Orlando,” Ramos said. “How did that happen? Did they get him off the plane? The flight attendant — after mom handed him with paperwork — did she let him go by himself? He jumped in the wrong plane by himself?”
Yeah, I'm going to put my child on something that's a cross between Greyhound and Fight Club.
"Spirit Airlines, flying people who have no business being on an airplane since 1983"
Oops.
Yeah, but they did put the kid on a plane, so it’s all good.
In fairness to Spirit Airlines, there is an additional fee to put a child on the correct flight.
I wouldn’t make my worst enemy fly unaccompanied on Spirit, much less my kid.
Spirited away
On the bright side, the kid will have a GREAT story to tell friends, mom & dad, his own kids and his grandkids. “I remember back in ‘23 when they put me on the wrong plane...and I landed in Zimbabwe!”
The child was always under the care and supervision of a Spirit Team Member, and as soon as we discovered the error, we took immediate steps to communicate with the family and reconnect them,” Spirit said in a statement Saturday.
If this is true, then how could the child being supervised end up on the wrong flight?
Uh...as adults, returning from our Mexico honeymoon, WE were put on wrong flight...long story
I saw a documentary about this - about a kid who wound up in NY city, stayed at the plaza hotel and battled against two criminals.
I was four years old and flew unaccompanied from NY to Burbank in 1950. Didn’t want to get off the plane when I arrived. But it was TWA, not Spirit.
And he met Donald Trump!
that airline is still allowed to fly in USA?
we will NEVER patronize them again after they failed to tell an entire plane load of PAID ticket=holders that they “cancelled the flight” MONTHS IN ADVANCE
we were all stranded at the airport ... fortunately, the workers at a neighboring airline’s counter took pity on us all and worked very diligently to find all of us flights on other airlines. We would up flying to another city but it was within 100 miles or so. It cost us over $2000 a ticket more (since it was necessarily a LAST MINUTE reservation) but we had to get there to deliver an eulogy at a church memorial service, otherwise we would have just gone home
Spirit never refunded us the loss.
And their website showed the flight as active ALL THE WHILE.
We will NEVER attempt to fly on that airline again, never ever.
I call them Ghetto Airlines.
I love that movie.
This happens more than you might know.
We put my mother, who had some mental memory problems, on a flight from Seattle to Spokane and we were there when she was escorted to the plane as an early boarder in a wheel chair.
When they landed the flight in Spokane, they neither escorted her off or allowed my sister to go to the plane to look for her. The plane was going to be cleaned and had a break in flying time so my mother sat in the plane for over an hour alone, a lot of it, until she was discovered and escorted to her daughter by the maintenance crew. She did ask while seated on the ground how to get off the plane but was not assisted nor was the preordered wheel chair taken to the aircraft entrance.
I used to brief my troops to always figure out the worst way that people can do something stupid and don’t be surprised if they beat you.
wy69
LOL! Never fly Spirit. Never!
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