Spirit Airlines Apologizes After Unaccompanied 6-Year-Old Put on Wrong Flight

Published on December 26, 2023

The grandmother of an unaccompanied 6-year-old boy who was put on the wrong Spirit Airlines flight by staff wants answers after the carrier apologized for the error. Maria Ramos said it was one of the scariest experiences of her life when her grandson, Casper, did not disembark from his flight from Philadelphia. “They told me, ‘No, he’s not on this flight. He missed his flight.’ I said, ‘No, he could not miss his flight because I have the check-in tag,'” Ms. Ramos told WINK News in Southwest Florida. As the passengers disembarked at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida, and Casper still had not emerged, Ms. Ramos said she “ran inside the plane to the flight attendant, and I asked her, ‘Where’s my grandson? He was handed over to you at Philadelphia?’ She said, ‘No, I had no kids with me.'”...