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Spirit did not provide any information about the child or explain how the mistake happened. WINK-TV, a television station in Fort Myers, identified the child as a 6-year-old first-time flyer who ...
A spokesperson for Canada's Porter Airlines said they weren't aware the girl was a minor when they removed her from the aircraft Mom Furious After Unaccompanied 14-Year-Old Daughter Was Forced Off ...
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 ...
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 )
The incident has provoked a surprising reaction on Twitter, where some users are blaming the child and her parents for failing to act responsibly.
United Airlines Flight 976: Angry after flight attendants refused to serve him more alcohol, Gerald Finneran, a 59-year-old Wall Street investment banker, flying from Buenos Aires to New York on October 20, got out of his seat and harassed and assaulted the flight attendants in response before he defecated on a service cart in the first-class ...
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.