{"id":300714,"date":"2025-08-02T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/?p=300714"},"modified":"2025-08-02T06:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:04:07","slug":"left-my-ten-year-old-son-at-the-airport-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelreport.se\/en\/lamnade-kvar-tioariga-sonen-pa-flygplats-i-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Left ten-year-old son at Barcelona airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 10-year-old boy was left behind at an airport in Spain after his passport expired. The boy&#039;s parents wanted to catch a flight themselves instead of helping him, reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/08\/01\/parents-abandon-son-10-airport-catch-flight-passport-expired-23809138\/\">Metro UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 As a mother, I am shocked, says an air traffic controller at the airport, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was on Wednesday that the boy and his parents were supposed to fly home from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressen.se\/tagg\/location\/barcelona\/\" class=\"\">Barcelona&#039;s<\/a>&nbsp;El Prat International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is currently unclear where the trio came from, but one thing is certain: only two of them boarded the plane, writes Metro UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It turned out that the son&#039;s passport had expired, which led to his being denied boarding the plane. Instead of trying to resolve the problem, the parents chose to leave him at the terminal to catch the flight themselves, says an airport controller, which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/travel\/news\/parents-abandon-child-10-airport-35656847\">The Mirror<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/01\/lifestyle\/parents-allegedly-abandon-10-year-old-son-at-airport-report\/\">New York Post,<\/a>&nbsp;reported on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 I am shocked at how a parent can leave their ten-year-old son at the terminal just because he cannot travel due to documentation issues, says a flight attendant in a video on TikTok, her information has not been verified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The police were called.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police were then called to the airport when they discovered that the boy was all alone waiting for a relative to pick him up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 They call a relative, who might be able to come in half an hour, an hour, or three hours, while they themselves board the plane and leave the child behind. As a mother, I am shocked, says a flight attendant, according to Metro UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The newspaper has contacted the airport and the local police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Expressen.se<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En tio\u00e5rig pojke l\u00e4mnades kvar p\u00e5 en flygplats i Spanien efter att hans pass g\u00e5tt ut. Pojkens f\u00f6r\u00e4ldrar ville sj\u00e4lv hinna med ett flyg i st\u00e4llet f\u00f6r att hj\u00e4lpa honom, rapporterar\u00a0Metro UK. \u2013 Som mamma \u00e4r jag chockad, s\u00e4ger en flygledare p\u00e5 flygplatsen, enligt tidningen. Det var under onsdagen som pojken och hans f\u00f6r\u00e4ldrar skulle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":300715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4077],"tags":[1341,6069,85,312,6070,1177,155],"class_list":["post-300714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flygplatser-bransch","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-aiport","tag-flyg","tag-tag-flygplats","tag-sonen","tag-spanien","tag-turism"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>L\u00e4mnade kvar tio\u00e5riga sonen p\u00e5 flygplats i Barcelona &#8211; Travel Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"L\u00e4mnade kvar tio\u00e5riga sonen p\u00e5 flygplats i Barcelona \u2013 L\u00e4s senaste nyheterna fr\u00e5n 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