Under 2, and at the Airport Alone

It could have turned out to be a bad story. A family left their 22 month old toddler at the airport on May 12, 2008, and continued on their flight out of Vancouver. It seems that several family members were traveling, each thinking the other had the young child with them. Instead, the non-English speaking child was stranded, alone, at one of Canada's biggest airports.

Air Canada agents stepped in, and the family was tracked down on a flight to Winnipeg. Air Canada footed the bill to return one of the parents to pick up the little boy, and fly the two of them to Winnipeg together to reunite the toddler with the family that accidentally left him behind, at the airport alone.

Toddler Misses Flight, Left at the Airport All Alone

photo courtesy of Arlene Fleming