Hi, I need a flight back home. I had tickets for a flight to Ohio so when you brought me here I went looking for my aunt...
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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Same gate but two hours’ time difference between the departures. Not too difficult to get it straight.
Same gate but two hours’ time difference between the departures. Not too difficult to get it straight.
ADHD?
Yep. Tuned out, in one form or another. Also, considering it was a 16 year-old, it’s hardly a “nightmare” as the the headline suggests...
Oh, boo hoo, boo hoo.
The kid should have paid more attention to the announcemnents of the flight he was boarding.
There are 4 siblings in our family. 7 years apart.
Raised on a dairy farm. A MYRIAD OF CHORES & ANIMALS....and ADVENTURES. Making ‘forts’ in the hay stack-—snowball fights-—”catch in summer until we cannot see the ball”.
Even the youngest one could spread ‘scratch’ for the chickens. OR gather eggs carefully.
We all had our chores-—based on age & strength. WE moved oats off the ‘elevator’ from one large bin into the further one with “tools built like rakes”, but built with solid boards. DUSTY work and hot in upper parts of a barn in summer.
We carried full 10 gallon milk cans from the barn to the milk house cooling tank.....at every milking....twice a day EVERY DAY.
We stacked hay bales on the wagon coming out of the baler, racing the weather to get the hay out of the fields.
We climbed into silos to throw down hay & corn silage. We added a scoop of grain on top of each serving of silage at each milking stall.
We shoveled manure out of the barn into a spreader, pulled by the tractor.
We shoveled snow in winter.
We fed cows-—sheep—7 boarded horses—pigs—chickens & broods of Labrador pups & wild barn cats.
ALL of our chores had to be done BEFORE WE HAD BREAKFAST & CHANGED CLOTHES to get onto the school bus to high school. We attended a ONE ROOM SCHOOL 1/2 mile from the farm earlier.
In summer, we gathered cows for evening milking & again-—every chore was done before WE ate supper & then did all of our homework.
WE learned that ALL those items HAD TO BE DONE & DONE CORRECTLY. NO getting a ‘day off”.
I would NOT trade any of that for ANYTHING kids have available to them today.
ALL 4 of us have been self employed-—running our own businesses...one with as high as 62 employees & I was self-employed—working alone.
We now are all retired—altho I get accounting questions all the time.
I actually feel somewhat sorry for today’s SNOWFLAKES.
When the SHTF, they are the first ones gone.
Unless Climate Change is real, I think the first clue you aren't in Ohio is Palm Trees and no snow!!
Frontier Airlines, another cheap airlines, not as bad as Spirit, but not as good as Breeze or Avelo
Sounds like a 16 year old moron. Not hard to see you are at the wrong gate, getting on the wrong plane.
The folks at the gate are only checking if you have a valid boarding pass.
Kind of amazing there wasn’t someone in the same seat.
16 and stuck in Puerto Rico.
He should’ve have gone out and met some Puerto Rican girls.
They’re just dieing to meet you🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
At 16, likely playing games on phone or watching TikTok important stuff, and headphones/ear buds. Kid won a trip to a new destination!
Yeah, his life skill set lacking situational awareness. He didn’t get killed for his stupidity. Or the lack of the boarding agent doing his job.
Lol- that’s true- now the wo4ld is making jokes about our water
His flight left two hours earlier than expected, the gate info must have listed where they were going, and yet it is the airline’s fault that he got on the wrong plane? This kid is not experienced enough to travel alone.
Frontier Airlines made a mistake. It’s what they do after the mistake is what matters. When I was 16 I spent several days without my parents alone at home by myself. I rode buses several hundred miles alone at 14 which took two days. I’ve little sympathy for the “victims” crying about this. Frontier I am sure will make it right.
Yeah, I could see that as a factor in the young man getting on the wrong flight.
Another factor might be the use of a single, unsegregated, large seating areas at a single gate. I’ve been in a number of regional and major hub airports where passengers were waiting for three or four different flights at the same gate. The only way they were controlled was by each traveler paying close attention to flight announcements by the gate agents as to which flight was being called forward for boarding. Compounding this is the sometimes incomplete announcements as different seating sections inside the cabin are called to board.
So if you’ve got a kid who’s already zoned out on his earbuds, he might’ve just noted people around him starting to get up and assumed it was time to board. - especially if he’s not used to traveling by airlines and with their multiplex use of boarding gates.
Frontier Airlines policy of allowing 15-year-old and older minors to fly as unaccompanied adults has as an unstated assumption that, at 15, they are old enough and smart enough to function in a controlled adult environment. Obviously, this introduces the opportunity to find out that some are not.
For information, it might be interesting to know how many adults end up in the wrong location for the same reasons; inexperienced, confused, or not paying attention to the announcements.
It was mostly the kid's fault.
He showed up at the gate two hours early when the gate was servicing the flight to PR.
Sure his phone ticket should have been scanned, but does the kid think each gate is reserved for one plane per day?
This might be part of the problem:
“My first reaction was panic,” his father said. “He’s panicking, he’s scared, and I can’t be there to keep him safe.”
My flight was delayed to the point that I missed my connection in Dallas/Fort Worth. No one at the other end knew what had happened. I just was not on the plane I was suppose to be disembarking from in Michigan.
When I got to DFW, after I was suppose to arrived in Michigan, they figured out what had happened but there was another screwup and they paged my grandparents using the wrong name. So they were not notified for several hours that I was safe and sound in the crew lounge for Braniff in DFW.
They did not want to send me on until they knew there was someone waiting for me at the other end.
Finally they were able to contact my parents, who contacted my aunt, who contacted my grandparents, who had been at the police station filing a missing child report. Life before cell phones eh?
They were frantic, I was having the time of my life. The Braniff people were very nice to me, taught me how to play Texas Hold Em and even bought me a new Nancy Drew book.
Hi, I need a flight back home. I had tickets for a flight to Ohio so when you brought me here I went looking for my aunt...
And the 16 yo you described would have been paying attention and taking some responsibility
New headline: Sixteen year old had his head in his phone and didn’t pay attention.
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