When you load a child onto an airplane as an unaccompanied minor, that usually entails an extra fee to make sure little Billy or Susan gets to the right destination and is kept as safely as possible by the airline when doing so. However, when two unaccompanied minors were sent out on the same Delta Airlines flight from Spokane, Washington, there was a little mix-up. One child was supposed to go to Cleveland, and one child was supposed to go to Boston. Delta got the two kids mixed up!
The mistake went down as the flight landed in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. There, 9-year-old Kieren Krenshaw and the unnamed girl got shuttled onto the wrong flights. Said an unphased Kieren, “It was just weird. I was like I’m supposed to be at Boston, not Cleveland!”
Describing the incident as “inadvertently boarded on incorrect connecting flights as a result of a paperwork swap,” Delta spokesman Paul Skrbec was very apologetic. “We apologized to the families, re-accommodated the children to their final destination cities at no cost, arranged full refunds for the children’s tickets, provided credits to the families for future travel, and refunded their unaccompanied minor fees.”
Yeah, because when the airline loses my kid, I’m in a real hurry to get to flying on it again, even if it is a free plane ride. Way to make Home Alone 2 look plausible, gang.
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