{"id":98755,"date":"2017-04-18T02:06:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T06:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98755"},"modified":"2017-04-18T02:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T06:06:04","slug":"air-canada-apologizes-for-bumping-10-year-old-boy-from-flight-to-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/18\/air-canada-apologizes-for-bumping-10-year-old-boy-from-flight-to-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada apologizes for bumping 10 year old boy from flight to Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98756\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17795980_1403493243031900_6115929797644799107_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98756\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17795980_1403493243031900_6115929797644799107_n.jpg\" alt=\"Air Canada is apologizing to a Prince Edward Island family after the airline bumped a 10-year-old boy from a flight. (Photo: Air Canada\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17795980_1403493243031900_6115929797644799107_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17795980_1403493243031900_6115929797644799107_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/17795980_1403493243031900_6115929797644799107_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air Canada is apologizing to a Prince Edward Island family after the airline bumped a 10-year-old boy from a flight. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aircanada\/photos\/a.151160728265164.33164.134146296633274\/1403493243031900\/?type=3&amp;theater\"> Air Canada\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CHARLOTTETOWN \u2014 Air Canada is apologizing to a Prince Edward Island family after the airline bumped a 10-year-old boy from a flight.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Doyle booked four tickets from Charlottetown to Costa Rica for his family last August.<\/p>\n<p>A day before the vacation during March break, Doyle says he checked his family in for the flight online, but could not select a seat for his son.<\/p>\n<p>After hours on the phone with Air Canada, Doyle&#8217;s wife drove to the airport and was told the flight was oversold and their son had been bumped.<\/p>\n<p>The family drove to Moncton to catch a different Air Canada flight to meet the Costa Rica flight in Montreal, but when that flight was cancelled they were forced to drive to Halifax and stay overnight in a hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Air Canada said in an email that the airline has apologized to the Doyle family, and that the situation should not have occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Doyle said he was offered a $2,500 voucher, which expires in one year, and was told Air Canada may cover his expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTETOWN \u2014 Air Canada is apologizing to a Prince Edward Island family after the airline bumped a 10-year-old boy from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[10857],"class_list":["post-98755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-air-canada","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}