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Spirit Airlines has apologized after it mistakenly put an unaccompanied child on the wrong flight during the holiday season travel rush. ... But the minor was “incorrectly boarded” on a flight ...
A Spirit Airlines 2005 Airbus A319-132 on the runway at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, on Oct. 24, 2021. (Kirby Lee / AP file )
A Spirit Airlines agent who put a 6-year-old on the wrong flight during the holiday travel rush is no longer working for the company, the airline said.
An unaccompanied minor (sometimes "unaccompanied child" or "separated child") is a child traveling on a commercial flight, a train, a bus, or any similar conveyance, without the presence of a legal guardian. Most commercial airlines and similar transporting carriers have Unaccompanied Minor (UM) Programs in place and it is estimated that as ...
BA paid £2,161 in costs and £750 in damages which Fischer donated to child protection charities. In June 2010, BA said that the policy was under review. [4] In August 2010, it changed its policy and began seating unaccompanied children in a nondiscriminatory manner near the cabin crew. [5]
An unaccompanied 6-year-old child flying on Spirit Airlines to visit his grandmother in Fort Myers, Florida, was instead put on a flight to Orlando.
Spencer Davenport and his sister Katherine must fly from California to Pennsylvania on Christmas Eve to spend the holidays with their dad. At their layover at the Midwestern Hoover International Airport, a massive blizzard grounds all planes and cancels all flights, and the siblings are sent to the anarchic UM (unaccompanied minor) room, where they meet Christmas-spirited genius Charlie ...
Most U.S. airlines allow kids as young as 5 fly by themselves. Experts say that's a good age to let many children doing things more independently. Here comes the airplane!