Boy, 6, travelling to visit grandmother for Christmas put on wrong flight

“I ran inside the plane to the flight attendant and I asked her ‘Where’s my grandson? He was handed over to you at Philadelphia?’

Spirit Airlines planes on the tarmac at Orlando airport (Chris O’Meara/AP)

A six-year-old boy who left on a flight for the Christmas holiday to visit his grandmother in south-west Florida, in the US, was put on the wrong plane and ended up 160 miles away in Orlando.

When the grandmother, Maria Ramos, arrived on Thursday at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers to greet her grandson, who was flying for the first time from Philadelphia, she was told he was not on the Spirit Airlines flight.