Posted on 10/12/2007 5:46:32 AM PDT by Sopater
I don’t know if it’s my children’s personalities or the way I raised them, or both, but my kids just don’t fall for stuff like this. They’d have raised the roof of the plane if someone tried to touch them.
why wasnt a flight attendant with the child?
Flying (Conair) aint what it used to be...
I let my child fly back and forth to see her grandparents starting when she was about that age. If any man had tried to touch her inappropriately the whole plane would have watched while she took her big heavy riding boots and jumped up and down on his face. No one messes with her, then or now.
Indeed, I suspect there is a bit of fiction to this story. Our son flew NW Airlines to meet grandma a dozen times. The airline staff always placed him at the front of the airplane where they could keep an eye on him. I don’t believe Delta would do anything different.
So what, if there aren't enough unaccompanied minors to fill a row, they leave an adult or two standing at the gate and fly with the seats empty? No airline has such a rule. Many of them have seats that are set aside for kids traveling alone, but those are released on the day of travel to anyone who wants them if there aren't kids in them.
why wasnt a flight attendant with the child?
The flight attendant can't stay next to the child for the entire flight, although they should be checking on the child regularly. They money charged for the service is for the extra labor needed at the airport and for the, ahem, liability involved.
>> She just sat there and let it happen? I suppose thats possible but something doesnt sound right.
I think it’s unlikely in any case that someone would get away with this... more likely on an /uncrowded/ flight, actually.
Plus, it’s not like they don’t know who was in the seat next to her! And it’s not someone who changed seats — the flight was crowded, remember?
My BS meter is reading at the high end also. I think it’s yet another money grab by yet another slimeball lawyer.
*The* money charged...not sure where the ‘y’ came from.
That one struck me. I have done that flight (more often than I want to count....) and it’s just not that long for much to happen “repeatedly”.
I’m just saying.....
My son, now 18 has flown to Orlando alone since he was 14. We had to pay an extra fee to have him escorted by flight attendants. There is no excuse for this. When he arrives to his destination they check the ID’s of his his grammie and pappie. They were very strict about it. This is SouthWest btw.
Since the customer pays for the airline’s liability insurance, we shouldn’t feel bad when the customer makes a, ahem, claim.
I let my pre-teen daughter fly alone to Florida, where she was met by aunt and uncle. She flew Southwest, and I met with the flight attendant whose care she was in, who allayed my fears by assuring me she would not leave my child's side until she deposited her into her aunt's arms. Emily sat with the flight attendant in the bulkhead row. I must confess, I'd have second thoughts now though. Still, don't be so quick to judge.
Sounds like somebody wants a big payday...
This is an awful thing to happen to the child, but how is Delta supposed to stop perverts from flying?
I think I saw that movie. Cue the soundtrack...Boom chaucka chaucka waa waa!
I’m finding this extremely hard to believe.
I first flew alone when I was nine years old (made my connection through Dallas/Ft. Worth on my own as well, thank you very much) and even at that age I wouldn’t have put up with that kind of nonsense for a flat second.
If there’s ever a time for a kid to scream bloody murder that’s it.
There are things people can do to reduce their chance of harm. If you wear a seat belt on a plan, you greatly reduce your risk of in flight injury. If you yell when a stranger touches you in appropriately on a plane, you greatly reduce the risk you will be sexually assaulted.
I’m in no way blaming the victim, but when I was a kid, I was told to yell for help and run away if I was in danger. There must have been at least three or more flight attendants on that plan, and plenty of passengers who would have come to this girls rescue if she yelled for help.
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