One family was left in a state of worry after their teenage son, who had been flying to Cleveland, Ohio, ended up in Puerto Rico instead.
Logan Lose, 16, had departed Tampa International Airport for Cleveland on Dec. 22 to visit his mom for the holidays when he unexpectedly was boarded onto the wrong flight, Loganās father, Ryan Lose, told WFLA. Instead of arriving in Ohio, Logan was shocked to discover that he was nowhere near his intended destination.
The teenager was allowed to board the Frontier Airlines flight after he arrived at the gate and saw other passengers in line. As a result, the boarding agent allowed him to board the flight to San Juan without scanning his ticket.
Loganās flight to Ohio and the Puerto Rico flight were departing from the same gate, with the Ohio flight taking off at a later time.
āLogan said they didnāt scan it,ā Ryan Lose told the outlet. āThey wouldāve known it was the wrong flight if they scanned the boarding pass.ā
Ryan Lose told CNN that he was aware that his son had been boarded onto the wrong flight when the teenagerās mom called him around 8:30 p.m. to tell him he was already on the plane.
āThatās when my 9-year-old son looked up the flight status and realized that a flight to Puerto Rico had just taken off from the same gate Loganās Ohio flight was taking off from,ā Ryan Lose said.
After attempting to contact Logan about the mistake, the family reached out to Frontier Airlines around 8:40 p.m. to inform them of the situation. At around 10:15 p.m., the airline reached out to the family and acknowledged the mistake.
After arriving in Puerto Rico, Logan reached out to his family for āhelpā as he was in a state of panic.
āHelp me please,ā the teenager texted his family. āIām so scared. They told me it was Ohio.ā
Frontier Director of Corporate Communications Jennifer de la Cruz acknowledged that Logan Lose had been āimmediately flown back to Tampa on the same aircraft and accommodated on a flight to Cleveland the following day.ā
The teenās father said his son arrived in Tampa around 3:30 a.m. and later arrived in Ohio around 7:45 a.m.
āAll they had to do was scan the boarding pass and he never boards,ā Ryan Lose said. āOr if they did a head count they wouldāve noticed he was not in a seat assigned to that flight.ā
While de la Cruz says the airline āextended its sincere apologies to the family for the error,ā and offered a $200 Travel voucher, Ryan Lose says that is not enough.
āThey offered me a voucher to an airline that just lost my son,ā the teenās father said. āI want accountability. These airlines are not being held accountable.ā