The grandmother of a 6-year-old child who was scheduled to fly unaccompanied on a Spirit Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Fort Myers, Florida, was worried sick when he arrived in Orlando instead of Fort Myers to meet his grandmother. Despite the airline issuing an apology, the family questions how the child ended up 160 miles from his intended destination and is considering a lawsuit.
Young Casper was expected to spend the Christmas holiday with his grandmother, who arrived to pick him up at the Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers on Thursday, Dec. 21.
However, he was not there when the flight was scheduled to arrive.
Airline workers claimed that the young boy had missed the flight, but the grandmother was confident he had been placed on a plane since she possessed a check-in tag from the Philadelphia International Airport.
“I 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,’” Maria Ramos explained according to WINK News.
For 40 minutes, she was unsure as to where the first grader was.
Ramos said her fears only subsided when her grandson FaceTimed her and told her that he was safe, albeit at the Orlando airport four hours away.
“He goes ‘mama, I’m in the airport.’ I said give me an adult, Casper, that is with you. He said, ‘No, grandma, I don’t have anyone with me,’” Ramos explained.
The grandmother said that the boy had a lanyard around his neck that said, “final destination RSW” and had his flight information on it.
When she spoke to her grandchild, she wanted to make sure he did not remove himself from the plane.
“I asked him once they put you in the seat, did you get off the plane,” Ramos said. “He said, ‘No, Grandma, I got on the plane and I went to sleep.’”
Furiously, the grandmother waited for someone to call her, but they did not.
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