Here’s a round-up of what the news media have done with this story… I sent a tip to the Boston Herald and never heard back from them. I sent a tip to the Boston Globe and never heard back from them. I sent a tip to WBUR (90.9 FM) and never heard back from them. Not… Read More »
http://www.gadling.com/2009/06/15/continental-airlines-flies-ten-year-old-girl-on-her-own-to-the-w/
(Link forwarded to me by my father in law.) http://www.woio.com/global/story.asp?s=10534794
Here’s the initial response I got from the FAA:
http://consumerist.com/5290598/continental-puts-10+year+old-child-on-the-wrong-plane
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.
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 »
(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 »
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 »
In a recent email message to me entitled “Fighting the Good Fight,” friend, author and politician Michael Burstein referred me to Kate Hutchinson’s blog entry about spamming by Sam Yoon. Michael is an avid reader of my blog and therefore knows that I’ve been in more than a few scraps of my own like Kate’s. … Read More »