Flown Alone, Spirt sends UM to wrong airport
12-25-2023 | 11:26 AM
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Flown Alone, Spirt sends UM to wrong airport
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/6-year-old-boy-flying-alone-put-on-wrong-spirit-airlines-flight_n_6589a296e4b014ec45a261eb
6yr old UM on Spirit was sent PHL-MCO instead of PHL-RSW. His grandmother had to drive 4 hours to pick him up.
6yr old UM on Spirit was sent PHL-MCO instead of PHL-RSW. His grandmother had to drive 4 hours to pick him up.
12-25-2023 | 03:29 PM
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12-26-2023 | 12:10 AM
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Let me get this straight ... grandma could drive 4 hrs each way from Ft Myers to Orlando to pick up the 6 year old child, but wasn't willing to fly round trip to accompany him on the flight? Awesome parenting and grandparenting.
12-26-2023 | 04:17 AM
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I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect the airline to perform the service you tell you they are capable of executing. Aside from a misconnect or diversion this is something the airline should be able to do with 100% accuracy. If not, don’t offer a UM service.
12-26-2023 | 04:55 AM
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Do anything enough times, and it will fail at some point. That’s life.
12-26-2023 | 05:48 AM
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No airline has executed their UM program without sending a kid to the wrong airport on occasion.
12-26-2023 | 07:19 AM
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As a parent of three young kids, there is no way in h-e-l-l that I would ever put one of them on an airline flight alone. I honestly think that it’s insane that there are people who do this.
12-26-2023 | 07:20 AM
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Why didn't the parent or guardian on the PHL side escort them to the gate? As far as I know you can still get gate passes for things like this. No way I would drop off a 6 year old kid at the airport and hope for the best.
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