{"id":284834,"date":"2023-02-04T07:45:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=284834"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T22:38:49","slug":"parents-international-flight-leave-baby-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/parents-international-flight-leave-baby-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOCK: Parents late for an international flight leave baby behind at airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parents traveling from Israel to Europe were stopped by authorities after they left their baby behind at a ticket counter for Ryanair Airlines. The child was unharmed and was eventually returned to his mother and father after the ordeal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/couple-leave-baby-at-airport-check-in-counter-without-a-ticket.html\">According to the Christian Post<\/a>, \u201cThe parents were traveling from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Brussels, Belgium, arriving at Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday to check in for their flight. The agent behind the desk contacted airport security, who detained the parents after they ran off to catch their flight, for which they were already late.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a cell phone video <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/01\/parents-leave-baby-at-tel-aviv-airport-to-board-flight\/\">acquired<\/a> by the New York Post, a woman can be heard yelling in Hebrew, \u201cShe left him here, I swear!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_JzeIvYf0Co\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to authorities, the couple arrived at the airport and realized that the baby needed a ticket\u00a0to travel on the lap of a parent was \u20ac25 (or $27) per one way ticket. A separate ticket would have to be purchased for the parents to travel with their child on a parent&#8217;s lap. But according to reports, the couple rushed to their flight gate without purchasing that ticket,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">leaving their infant behind at the ticket counter before being pursued by the police.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll our staffers were in shock. We\u2019ve never encountered anything like this. We couldn\u2019t believe what we were seeing,\u201d a Ryanair manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mako.co.il\/travel-news\/Article-d47431903c70681026.htm\">told<\/a> Channel 12 News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;A couple and an infant with Belgian passports arrived for a flight at Terminal 1 without a ticket for the baby. The couple also arrived late for the flight, once the check-in for the flight was closed. The couple left the infant seat with the baby and ran toward the security checks at Terminal 1 in an attempt to reach the boarding gate for the flight,\u201d a spokesperson for the\u00a0 Israeli Airport Authority <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/travel\/article\/baby-left-airport-scli-intl\/index.html\">told CNN<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The baby was with the parents and there&#8217;s no further investigation,\u201d a spokesperson for the Israeli Police told the media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>No further explanation was given by authorities as to why the infant was returned to the parents with no charges filed. 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The child was unharmed and was eventually returned to his mother and father after the ordeal.\u00a0 According to the Christian Post, \u201cThe parents were traveling from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Brussels, Belgium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":284842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SHOCK: Parents late for an international flight leave baby behind at airport<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cAll our staffers were in shock. We\u2019ve never encountered anything like this. 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