16-year-old flying solo on Frontier Airlines ends up in Puerto Rico instead of Ohio

A Florida teenager traveling alone was meant to fly to his mother in Ohio on a Frontier Airlines flight, but instead ended up on a flight to Puerto Rico. The 16-year-old passenger was scheduled to fly from Tampa to Cleveland on December 22, but “mistakenly boarded a different flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico,” Frontier Director of Corporate Communications Jennifer de la Cruz said in a statement to CNN. The Ohio and Puerto Rico flights departed from the same gate, with the flight to Puerto Rico taking off first, according to de la Cruz. “Frontier has extended its sincere apologies to the family for the error,” de la Cruz said. The mix-up comes after a similar recent incident involving an unaccompanied 6-year-old, who got on the wrong Spirit Airlines flight and ended up in Orlando instead of Ft. Myers. It was the first solo flight for the teenager, Logan, who suffers from flight anxiety, the teen’s father Ryan Lose told CNN in a phone interview Saturday. The father said he and his current wife Krista talked the teen through how to go to the gate. But when Logan got to the gate in Tampa at around 8 p.m., passengers were already boarding, Lose said. Story has more details.<br/>