A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with an airline’s booking system.
The problem occurs because American Airlines’ systems apparently cannot compute that Patricia, who did not want to share her surname, was born in 1922, rather than 2022.
The BBC witnessed the latest mix-up, which she and the cabin crew were able to laugh off.
“It was funny that they thought I was only a little child and I’m an old lady!” she said.
But the centenarian says she would like the glitch to be fixed as it has caused her some problems in the past.
For example, on one occasion, airport staff did not have transport ready for her inside the terminal as they were expecting a baby who could be carried.
Um, yeah? People like privacy? If they didn’t add this line, nobody would bat an eye.
In journalism, the standard is to share the whole name of a subject. If you don’t share the whole name, it’s appropriate to explain why.
That’s fair enough, I learned something today