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The Independent
4 days ago
- The Independent
British teenager boards flight to Italy without a ticket after losing parents in airport
A British teenager boarded the wrong flight home after being separated from his family at Menorca Airport, Spain and ended up in Italy instead of London yesterday. The 15-year-old's parents lost sight of him and raised the alarm before discovering he had successfully boarded a flight to Milan Malpensa without a ticket after police reviewed CCTV. The boy and his family were meant to fly back from their holiday from the Spanish Balearic Island Menorca with Tui to London Stansted. Local authorities and easyJet staff met the teenager upon arriving in Milan and arranged his mother to fly out to meet him. They have now returned to the UK. A national police spokesperson in Mallorca said: 'Officers checked cameras in the departures area and saw the teenager had managed to get on to a flight to Milan. 'The airport had already activated its missing child alert system but it was deactivated after it was confirmed the lad was on his way to Italy.' An easyJet spokesperson told The Independent:'We have been investigating with the airport and our ground handling provider at Mahon how a young passenger was able to travel unaccompanied on the wrong flight to Milan on 4 August. 'The passenger was met by our team and the local authorities in Milan. We provided travel arrangements for a family member to meet them later that day and remained in touch with the family to offer our support.
Arab News
11-07-2025
- Arab News
Pakistani passenger, bound for Karachi, ‘mistakenly' flies to Jeddah
KARACHI: In a bizarre turn of events, a Pakistani man, who was supposed to travel to Karachi from Lahore, boarded a wrong flight and landed in the Saudi city of Jeddah this week, the Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) confirmed on Friday. The passenger, Malik Shahzain Ahmed, was traveling to Karachi through a private airline, Air Sial, but instead boarded the airline's flight to Jeddah from the Lahore airport, local media reported, citing the passenger. Ahmed told media that immigration authorities at the Jeddah airport briefly detained and questioned him upon landing in the Kingdom without a passport and deported him to Lahore after the situation became clear. In a statement, the PAA said higher officials had taken notice of the lapse and written letters to civil aviation regulator and the station manager. 'In the letter, the civil aviation regulator has been requested to impose a heavy fine on the airline that is guilty of negligence,' PAA spokesman Saifullah said. The PAA statement did not offer an explanation as to how the passenger cleared immigration at the Lahore airport before boarding the Jeddah-bound flight. In a video clip circulating online, Ahmed said he went to Lahore airport to board the Karachi-bound flight on July 8, but he 'mistakenly' sat in the Jeddah-bound flight after collecting his boarding pass for the domestic flight. 'After two hours, I asked [myself], 'This plane doesn't seem to be landing [soon]',' he said. 'Then I got to know that I had taken boarded the wrong plane.'
