Also picked up by gadling.com
http://www.gadling.com/2009/06/15/continental-airlines-flies-ten-year-old-girl-on-her-own-to-the-w/
Author Archives: jik
First on-line news story about the incident
(Link forwarded to me by my father in law.) http://www.woio.com/global/story.asp?s=10534794
Initial FAA response
Here’s the initial response I got from the FAA:
And we’re live on Consumerist…
http://consumerist.com/5290598/continental-puts-10+year+old-child-on-the-wrong-plane
Reported to the FAA
I just sent this to the FAA safety hotline. They claim that submissions to the hotline are reviewed daily and I should hear back within three business days. We’ll see.
Another airline screwup you just will NOT believe: Continental puts my unaccompanied minor daughter on the wrong plane!
I took my ten-year-old daughter to Boston Logan Airport this morning to put her on a Continental flight to Cleveland, where my in-laws live, as an unaccompanied minor. The gate agent took all the paperwork and escorted my daughter down the jetway, and then proceeded to put her on the wrong airplane. There were two… Read More »
Workplace irony
Last week, the internal training division of my company sent out the June schedule of one-hour seminars they hold regularly on various topics. One of the seminars, entitled “The Working Parent,” was described as follows: This workshop is for anyone interested in learning ways to assess our current lifestyle, set priorities and choose realistic goats.… Read More »
Resident only parking — it’s not over yet
(Follow the whole story here.) I found this photocopy in my mailbox yesterday after returning from a two-day trip: I’ve redacted identifying information both because I prefer not to publish other people’s names, identifying information and private correspondence without their consent, and because I don’t want this to turn into a personal battle among residents… Read More »
Resident-only parking restriction removed!
As I previously reported, Allston/Brighton resident-only parking signs were posted on my block on May 15, without any prior consultation with or notice to the homeowners on the block. The day I wrote to the city about this, I received a response from someone in the Transportation Department claiming that it would be looked into. … Read More »
Web site pet peeves
ZIP code fields that don’t accept the ZIP+4, or only accept it without the hyphen, or only accept it with the hyphen, or let you enter it and then tell you it’s invalid Credit-card number fields that don’t accept spaces or hyphens, or require spaces or hyphens, or tell you to enter the card number… Read More »