Spirit Airlines Flew a Lone 6-Year-Old to the Wrong City

• A 6-year-old boy touring alone was placed on the incorrect Spirit Airways flight.
• He landed at Orlando as a substitute of his meant vacation spot of Fort Myers, Florida.
• The boy’s grandmother stated she needs solutions about how the mix-up occurred.

Spirit Airways apologized after it by chance put an unaccompanied six-year-old on the incorrect flight and flew him greater than 160 miles away from his household.

The boy’s grandmother, Maria Ramos, informed Wink Information that she was knowledgeable her grandson Casper had missed his flight from Philadelphia to Fort Myers, Florida, on Thursday.

“They informed me, ‘No, he isn’t on this flight. He missed his flight.’ I stated, ‘No, he couldn’t miss his flight as a result of I’ve the check-in tag,” she stated.

Ramos stated she ran onto the aircraft, and the flight attendant informed her no unaccompanied kids had been on the flight.

Ramos stated it was Casper’s first time on a aircraft and the scariest factor she had skilled.

The boy later known as her to inform her he was in Orlando, 160 miles from his meant vacation spot. His baggage arrived in Fort Myers as deliberate.

Ramos stated that she wished solutions from the airline about how the mix-up occurred, because the boy had been handed over to a flight attendant by his mom.

“I need them to name me. Let me know the way my grandson ended up in Orlando. How did that occur? Did they get him off the aircraft?” she stated.

“Did she let him go by himself, and he jumped within the incorrect aircraft by himself?”

Ramos stated that the airline had supplied to reimburse her for the drive to choose him up.

In an announcement to BI, a consultant for Spirit Airways confirmed that the kid was incorrectly boarded on a flight to Orlando.

“The kid was at all times beneath the care and supervision of a Spirit Workforce Member, and as quickly as we found the error, we took speedy steps to speak with the household and reconnect them,” they stated.

“We take the security and duty of transporting all of our Friends critically and are conducting an inside investigation. We apologize to the household for this expertise.”