Do you think there will be a chance that you will forget about your kid in an airport when traveling?
Well that’s what happened with the Parreno family. The family (composed of the father and the mother together with their 18 month old son and his grandparents) were traveling to Vancouver from the Philippines as immigrants. Arriving at the Vancouver airport after their long flight from the Philippines, they have to unpack their luggage since they are overweight for their domestic flight to Winnipeg via Air Canada. And since they only have 10 minutes left before boarding for their Winnipeg flight they might have been disoriented and they panicked for having to unpack and pack their stuffs.
The mother, together with the grandparents, head to the boarding gate ahead of the father thinking that she left her son with the father. The father too was thinking that his son was with her wife. And luck was really not on their side since they were seated far away from each other so they did not realize that they left their son at the airport. They only found out that they left their son when the flight crew notified them after airport officials found the little boy wandering in the airport.
Since the boy does not speak English, airport officials have to look for a Tagalog speaking crew to talk to the boy.
Good thing is that Air Canada flew the father back to Vancouver from Winnipeg to pick up his son.
That must be one horrifying experience. I guess moving to a new country is one stressful experience and the poor Parreno family have to deal with an additional stress with the lost of their son.
But the Parreno family was very thankful as Air Canada really took good care of their son in their absence.
This is something I would have to remember if ever we decide to migrate so I won’t loose my daughter at the airport if we were faced with a stressful situation also. :-)
Well that’s what happened with the Parreno family. The family (composed of the father and the mother together with their 18 month old son and his grandparents) were traveling to Vancouver from the Philippines as immigrants. Arriving at the Vancouver airport after their long flight from the Philippines, they have to unpack their luggage since they are overweight for their domestic flight to Winnipeg via Air Canada. And since they only have 10 minutes left before boarding for their Winnipeg flight they might have been disoriented and they panicked for having to unpack and pack their stuffs.
The mother, together with the grandparents, head to the boarding gate ahead of the father thinking that she left her son with the father. The father too was thinking that his son was with her wife. And luck was really not on their side since they were seated far away from each other so they did not realize that they left their son at the airport. They only found out that they left their son when the flight crew notified them after airport officials found the little boy wandering in the airport.
Since the boy does not speak English, airport officials have to look for a Tagalog speaking crew to talk to the boy.
Good thing is that Air Canada flew the father back to Vancouver from Winnipeg to pick up his son.
That must be one horrifying experience. I guess moving to a new country is one stressful experience and the poor Parreno family have to deal with an additional stress with the lost of their son.
But the Parreno family was very thankful as Air Canada really took good care of their son in their absence.
This is something I would have to remember if ever we decide to migrate so I won’t loose my daughter at the airport if we were faced with a stressful situation also. :-)
