Spirit Airlines issued an apology after putting a six-year-old unaccompanied minor on the wrong flight.
The child was set to fly on Thursday from Philadelphia International Airport to Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida, to visit his grandmother, WINK-TV reported.
Instead, the boy was “incorrectly boarded” on a flight to Orlando, Spirit acknowledged in a statement on Saturday.
The statement did not address how the error came to take place - during a busy holiday travel day.
When the US Parcel Service was first introduced, a few people mailed their children.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/
The first case was an 8 month old baby being delivered to his grandparents a few miles away by the postal worker on his route.
A more extreme case was a 4 year old sent 73 miles; a cousin who was a clerk with the rail mail service apparently accompanied her.
One of my husband’s ancestors was shipped across Texas by train as a child.