A story worthy of the movie “Mom, I Missed the Plane”: a 6-year-old child who was traveling alone was put on the wrong plane a few days before Christmas.
On December 21, little Casper was scheduled to fly to Philadelphia for the first time to join his grandmother Maria Ramos at the Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers. However, when the plane arrived, the little boy was nowhere to be found.
“They told me, ‘No, he’s not on this flight. He missed his flight.’ I said, “No, he couldn’t have missed his flight because I have the check-in tag.” I ran inside the plane to the flight attendant and asked her, “Where is my grandson? Was he released to you in Philadelphia?” She said, ‘No, I didn’t have any kids with me,'” Ramos said in an interview with Wink News.
Scared to death, the woman finally got some relief when Casper called her to tell her he had landed. Fortunately, the little boy was only four hours away, at the Orlando airport. If the child did not make it safely, this is not the case for his suitcase which made it to Fort Myers.
“Let me know how my grandson ended up in Orlando. How did it happen? Did they take him off the plane? Did the flight attendant, after mom gave him the papers, let him go on his own and he jumped on the wrong plane by himself?” said the grandmother, who saw herself offered by Spirit Airlines to pay for the road to pick up little Casper.
For its part, the airline made it clear that the child was under the supervision of an adult at all times.
“The child was still under the care and supervision of a member of the Spirit team, and as soon as we discovered the error, we took immediate steps to communicate with the family and reconnect them,” thus said Michael Lopardi, spokesperson for Spirit Airlines, adding that an internal investigation has been opened to understand what happened.
