The pair, who haven’t been recognized, have been checking in for a Ryanair flight from Ben Gurion International Airport to Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday with the toddler.
It emerged that the child didn’t have a ticket, and the couple headed off to board the flight — leaving their little one behind on the airline check-in counter.
The matter was referred to police, a spokeswoman for Ryanair informed Mahaz News in an e-mail.
She mentioned: “These passengers traveling from Tel Aviv to Brussels (31 Jan) presented at check-in without a booking for their infant. They then proceeded to security leaving the infant behind at check-in.
“The check-in agent at Ben Gurion Airport contacted Airport Security, who retrieved these passengers, and that is now a matter for native police.”
According to Ryanair’s website, “infants might be included in a flight reservation throughout the on-line reserving course of.” When making plans to travel with an infant, a pop-up message appears on the site stating that there is a €25 ($27) charge — or the local currency equivalent — for each one-way flight the baby takes while sitting on an adult’s lap. A seat must be paid for by separate arrangement if the adults want the baby to travel in a car seat.
The Israeli Airport Authority confirmed the episode to Mahaz News and said in a statement:
“A pair and an toddler with Belgian passports arrived for a flight at Terminal 1 and not using a ticket for the child. The couple additionally arrived late for the flight, as soon as the check-in for the flight was closed. The couple left the toddler seat with the child and ran towards the safety checks at Terminal 1 in an try to succeed in the boarding gate for the flight.”
A spokesman for Israel Police told Mahaz News in a phone call that the matter appeared to have been resolved by the time police arrived on the scene. He said: “The child was with the mother and father and there isn’t any additional investigation.”
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Mahaz News’s Richard Allen Greene contributed to this report.
Source web site: www.cnn.com
