CLEVELAND — A travel nightmare is over for a Northeast Ohio family.
The father of a 16-year-old boy is relieved that his son is back home after taking the wrong flight and landing in Puerto Rico instead of Ohio.
"This was his first time flying by himself, and we thought it was a routine flight that we've taken many times from Tampa to Cleveland, and it turned out not to be so," said the teen's father, Ryan Lose.
The teen was supposed to fly out of Tampa Bay International Airport to Cleveland but mistakenly ended up in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Frontier Airlines told 3News that the mishap happened on Dec. 22, when the teenager mistakenly boarded a different flight that was departing from the same gate.
"He was immediately flown back to Tampa on the same aircraft and accommodated on a flight to Cleveland the following day. Frontier has extended its sincere apologies to the family for the error," a spokesperson for Frontier Airlines told 3News.
The 16-year-old boy eventually arrived in Cleveland the next day, where he was visiting his mother for Christmas.
Frontier Airlines also noted that they allow children 15 and above to fly alone.
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