Imagine the fear of a poor little boy 23 months old when he found himself alone in huge airport while all the adults four of them are comfortably seated on a plane traveling to Winnipeg without him. How could this happen? Isn’t the child the most important thing that one should make sure is in view at all times or is it the luggage and all that junk? There is no excuse for this mistake. I understand about running between gates to transfer from one plane to the other but no way will my child be left behind. This is gross carelessness and now the boy may never recover from this incident.
Jun Parreno, the boy’s father thought he was with the mother and his grandparents and they thought he was with him.
The Filipino family was lucky because of the quick thinking of Air Canada staff who found the boy wandering alone between a security checkpoint and the flight gates and took care of him. The child did not speak English and had no boarding pass as he was not assigned his own seat. There was no panicked calls for this lost child so it was difficult to track at first. However after checking flight registers the staff figured out who the child’s parents might be and so the story ended all good. Air Canada brought the father back with another plane to pick up his son. The father was tearful when he was reunited with his son. Lucky him. Great job Air Canada. Let this be a less to everyone traveling with children. Always keep a child within your radar, never wonder where the child is, be sure about where that child is before getting on a plane or a bus or anywhere. You may not be as lucky as the Parreno’s.
