A 6-year-old boy who took a flight to visit his grandmother was put on the wrong plane.
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A 6-year-old boy was on a plane to visit his grandmother in southwest Florida for the Christmas holidays, but he ended up on the wrong plane and ended up 260 miles away in Orlando, Florida.
When grandmother Maria Ramos showed up Thursday at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers to pick up her grandson on his first flight from Philadelphia, she was told that her grandson was not on a Spirit Airlines flight. .
“I ran to the flight attendant on the plane and asked, ‘Where’s my grandchild?’ Was he handed over to you in Philadelphia? She said, ‘No, I didn’t have any children. ”’ Ramos told WINK News.
Later, I received a call from my grandson from the Orlando airport to let me know that he had landed.
Spirit Airlines said in a statement that even though the boy mistakenly boarded a flight to Orlando, he remained under the care and supervision of airline employees the entire time. The airline informed his family after the mistake was discovered, the statement said.
“We take the transportation safety and responsibility of all of our guests seriously and are conducting an internal investigation,” the statement said. “We apologize to the family for going through this experience.”