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https://www.theage.com.au/national/...bourne-airport-storeroom-20190320-p515ni.html
Severe storms on the east coast of Australia has resulted in a Virgin Australia flight from SYD - BNE being diverted to Melbourne which resulted in 3 unaccompanied minors being stranded without a guardian overnight. I'd be interested in others views on this.
The first problem as I see it is that the plane unbelievably ended up in the exact opposite direction to BNE. Surely if weather looked to be an issue the flight should have remained in Sydney.
Naturally the media have jumped all over Virgin for the kid in question ending up locked in a storage room overnight. There are likely polar opposite views on AFF about what VA ought to have done in this case and the parent appears to lay the blame at the airline. I tend to take the opposite view. in my view the parent / guardian is wholly responsible for their child at all times with the exception of say when they are at school or staying at a friends house.
Most of us at AFF are at least somewhat frequent flyers and understand that delays and cancellations are an unfortunate part of flying. VA are in the business of flying people from point A to B. The fact that they take unaccompanied minors at all is doing a massive favour for parents. In this case it looks like their hands were tied to dome degree with most hotels being full due to the Grand Prix but even if there was a room available were they supposed to leave the kid there unsupervised?
Unaccompanied minors present a difficult and possibly time consuming/expensive challenge for airlines, especially when parents are happy to run to the media when it all goes wrong.
Severe storms on the east coast of Australia has resulted in a Virgin Australia flight from SYD - BNE being diverted to Melbourne which resulted in 3 unaccompanied minors being stranded without a guardian overnight. I'd be interested in others views on this.
The first problem as I see it is that the plane unbelievably ended up in the exact opposite direction to BNE. Surely if weather looked to be an issue the flight should have remained in Sydney.
Naturally the media have jumped all over Virgin for the kid in question ending up locked in a storage room overnight. There are likely polar opposite views on AFF about what VA ought to have done in this case and the parent appears to lay the blame at the airline. I tend to take the opposite view. in my view the parent / guardian is wholly responsible for their child at all times with the exception of say when they are at school or staying at a friends house.
Most of us at AFF are at least somewhat frequent flyers and understand that delays and cancellations are an unfortunate part of flying. VA are in the business of flying people from point A to B. The fact that they take unaccompanied minors at all is doing a massive favour for parents. In this case it looks like their hands were tied to dome degree with most hotels being full due to the Grand Prix but even if there was a room available were they supposed to leave the kid there unsupervised?
Unaccompanied minors present a difficult and possibly time consuming/expensive challenge for airlines, especially when parents are happy to run to the media when it all goes wrong.