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A teenage boy from Florida suffered a scare this Christmas after he accidentally boarded the wrong flight and ended up in Puerto Rico rather than Cleveland, Ohio, where he had intended to join his mother for the holiday season.
Logan Lose, 16, waved farewell to his family at Tampa International Airport on the evening of Friday 22 December as he set out nervously for his first solo trip to Cleveland before mistakenly being allowed onto a Frontier Airlines flight to San Juan when a boarding agent failed to look closely at his ticket.
“He went up there and asked the lady if the flight was boarding, and they said, ‘yes,’ and they also checked his bag to make sure it fit,” the boy’s father Ryan Lose told CNN.
“But Logan said they never scanned his ticket. Logan said …