Unaccompanied minors usually get doted on by the flight attendants I thought that unaccompanied minors needed to be older than 8, so curious about the ages.
----- Original Message ----- From: "C. Hatton Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:08 PM Subject: Sent to a American Airlines > (Please be sure to trim emails when responding.) > > I flew recently on AA and had a rather... interesting experience on > the last leg of my trip home. I sent the following to them. I wanted > to get other people's thoughts on what happened as well. > > Because of some crazy form handler, their contact us form restricts > content to 1500 characters. I am posting the *short* version of what > I sent. If you want me to post the whole thing (it's two pages in > Word) I can. > > My wife and I recently traveled to attend my grandmother's funeral. > As we were boarding flight 3835 to return home, we noticed two > unaccompanied minors checking in. > > We sat in seats 16A and 16B and the girls sat directly in front of us. > They were Skylar (7) and Ali (5). They were sent off by their > mother's "assistant" with a bag of candy, two drinks, two "Fairy" > dolls and a coloring book with stickers (no crayons). The flight > attendant was surprised that they were there. > > Early in the flight, Skylar was given a can of cola with a cup. She > poured some and put the cup on her tray table. Ali then decided that > she wanted something from under the seat. She "dove" under her the > seat, knocking the tray and spilling the drink onto Ali. > > My wife went into "mommy" mode. We got Ali cleaned up and found > things for the girls to do. We did everything we could with what we > had, borrowing pen, making puppets and using the "voice" when the > girls got too loud. We even gave them paper we brought for me to > scratch out notes from the funeral and food my wife had for a > "mid-flight snack." > > In short, on the return flight from my grandmother's funeral my wife > and I babysat two little girls that were put on the flight with > inadequate supplies by their parent. We had support of the flight > attendant but he was not adequately prepared to deal with them. I > have ideas to share but don't have the space to put them or my full > letter here. > > I look forward to hearing from someone soon. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266859 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
