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Spirit Airlines put six-year-old boy on the wrong flight alone

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Airline staff allegedly told boy’s grandmother that he missed his flight

Spirit Airlines put six-year-old boy on the wrong flight alone

Spirit Airlines issued an apology after putting a six-year-old unaccompanied minor on the wrong flight.

The child was set to fly on Thursday from Philadelphia International Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida, to visit his grandmother, WINK-TV reported.

Instead, the boy was “incorrectly boarded” on a flight to Orlando, Spirit acknowledged in a statement on Saturday.

The statement did not address how the error came to take place - during a busy holiday travel day.

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  • There are multiple points of failure at play here.

    The wellbeing of a child cannot be left to only one employee, therefore it’s either an institutional failing or more than one person made a “mistake”.

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