A 101-year-old grandmother passenger was recognized as a 1-year-old baby due to an error in the U.S. airline's reservation system.
According to the BBC and the Guardian on the 28th (local time), Patricia, who lives in the United States, was recently confirmed as a 1-year-old baby while booking and boarding American Airlines.
The problem was that the airline's reservation system did not recognize 1922 when Ms. Patricia was born, and mistakenly identified her as being born in 2022. The airport computer system has not been able to handle past birth dates of over 100 years based on the present. It is estimated that the program instead added 100 years to the date of birth as a new value.
Airline employees who expected a 1-year-old baby to be on board were forced to panic when a 101-year-old grandmother appeared.
Employees and Ms. Patricia laughed off this happening, but this is not the first time Ms. Patricia has been mistaken for a baby.
Patricia booked a wheelchair to get off the aircraft and move from the airport last year, but she suffered a setback because the wheelchair was not ready because it was incorrectly entered as a 1-year-old baby.
He, who was traveling with his daughter at the time, said he had to travel a mile (1.6 kilometers) with all his luggage because he didn't have a wheelchair.
There was a time when this error occurred when purchasing a ticket. "My daughter booked my flight ticket online, and I think the airport computer thought my birth year was 2022 instead of 1922," Ms. Patricia said. "The same thing happened last year, so the airport staff were waiting for the baby, not me."
Meanwhile, the BBC said American Airlines did not respond to a request for comment on the incident.
