Reason #582919

As if I needed another reason to not want to fly any more, Delta Airlines puts kids on the wrong flights.

Kieren and the unnamed Cleveland girl were both traveling as unaccompanied minors on a flight from Spokane, Washington, through Minneapolis-St. Paul, airline spokesman Paul Skrbec told Yahoo!. At Minneapolis they were “inadvertently boarded on incorrect connecting flights as a result of a paperwork swap,” Skrbec said.

Now I admit. We’re human. Shit happens. As a parent, this isn’t the sort of shit I’d want to happen to me. But also consider that many unaccompanied minors fly all the time and shit doesn’t happen. So I grant, this is a rare event.

But what I never understood?

“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,” Skrbec added.