United Apologizes After Mother Says Unaccompanied Minor Put on Wrong International Flight

July 2, 2019
A 14-year-old traveling alone from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Stockholm, Sweden, was put on the wrong connecting flight headed to Germany on Sunday.

A 14-year-old traveling alone from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Stockholm, Sweden, was put on the wrong connecting flight headed to Germany on Sunday, according to his mother. And United Airlines has issued an apology to the family.

His flight leg from Raleigh to Newark, New Jersey, was on United Airlines, with the intention of connecting to Sweden on Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). However, a United Airlines employee brought him to the wrong flight, and he was put on a Eurowings flight to Dusseldorf, Germany instead, his mother said.

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