Mum to sue JetBlue for flying her son to the wrong airport
A New York mother has filed a lawsuit against JetBlue after the airline sent her five-year-old son to the wrong destination.
Maribel Martinez’ son Andy was travelling alone last month in the care of JetBlue employees at Cibao International Airport in the Dominican Republic.
Due to a mix-up with another unaccompanied minor, he was put on the wrong plane and ended up at Boston instead of New York JFK.
According to Martinez, JetBlue admitted fault and offered her a $10,000 compensation payment which she declined.
The US Department of Transportation also requested a report from JetBlue into how the mix-up occurred.
Martinez is seeking unspecified damages due to ’emotional distress, extreme fear, horror, mental shock, mental anguish and psychological trauma’.
Attorney Sanford Rubenstein said because the US DOT investigation is based on JetBlue’s own internal inquiry, a lawsuit is the only way ‘to shine a light on what occurred to prevent it from happening again’.
The airline declined to comment on the upcoming litigation.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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