When touring, there’s all the time a concern of attending to the airport and realizing that you do not have correct identification to get on the flight, whether or not it is a driver’s license or a passport for worldwide journey.
However one Frontier Airways passenger went by means of safety to get on a flight from Philadelphia to Jacksonville, Florida, and one way or the other ended up in Jamaica — with out a passport.
Beverly Ellis-Hebard instructed native outlet ABC 6 that she makes use of Frontier as a result of she flies to her second residence in Jacksonville each six weeks.
Ellis-Hebard took a last-minute rest room break and was rushed to board her flight. Whereas measuring her carry-on within the baggage sizer, she lower her arm and a flight attendant rushed her to board as she tended to her wound.
As soon as on board, the flight attendant that was serving to her bandage up then joked that she would be capable to calm down concerning the incident as soon as the aircraft obtained to sunny Jamaica.
Besides, it wasn’t a joke.
“I laughed. I mentioned ‘I might like to be going there however I’ve a seashore the place I stay,'” Ellis-Hebard instructed the outlet. “She mentioned, ‘Have a look at me. This aircraft goes to Jamaica.’ And I knew by the look on her face she wasn’t joking.”
Fortunately when the flight landed, Jamaican authorities allowed her to remain on the jetway till she was in a position to board one other flight again stateside “hours later.”
“It ought to have by no means have occurred as a result of I didn’t have a passport,” Ellis-Hebard mentioned bluntly. “The lady on the gate didn’t do her job.”
Frontier Airways mentioned in a press release that the lady would obtain a $600 flight voucher for the ordeal.
“We prolong our utmost apologies to Beverly Ellis-Hebard for this unlucky expertise,” the airline mentioned. “We sincerely remorse that Ms. Ellis-Hebard was in a position to board the incorrect flight.”
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The incident follows one in February when a person boarded a aircraft on an American Airways flight to Sidney, Montana considering he had booked a ticket to Sydney, Australia, prompting him to overlook his cruise that was set to depart midway world wide.
Frontier Airways just lately debuted its GoWild! Summer season Move, which permits passengers to take a vast variety of flights from Could 2 to September 30.
The airline was down round 10.45% year-over-year as of Friday afternoon.