8 years ago
Monday, October 8, 2012
Mother's fury as airline staff who allowed son, 11, to travel to Rome without a ticket or a passport will NOT be sacked
A mother whose 11-year-old son sneaked aboard a passenger jet then flew to Rome alone is furious after three airline staff were told they would all keep their jobs.
Liam Corcoran jumped on a plane at Manchester Airport and travelled over 1,000 miles without a passport, cash or boarding pass.
Three Jet2.com workers were suspended in the wake of the incident, and warned they could be dismissed while the airline reviewed procedures at all their British airports.
But today it emerged the staff members had been told they will not lose their jobs and are back at work after being retrained.
Liam’s mother Mary Corcoran, 30, said: 'I’m disgusted with Jet2. Three months on and I have not even had so much as an apology. I still haven’t had a letter, any correspondence or anything.
'That would have been the bare minimum that I would have expected after my son got half way to Rome before anyone realised.
'It’s a disgrace that these people can be reinstated after what happened and that’s what I find hard to understand - this was a vulnerable child who was by himself.
She added: 'I knew that the staff were being investigated and I was hoping that the outcome would be that someone would be held accountable and sacked for it.
'At the end of the day they let a child who was alone get through all the security and on to a flight heading to Rome.
'It’s a disgrace and I’m very angry that the staff have not been sacked and have only been re-trained. I think it’s outrageous and I still can’t get my head around it.
'They put my son’s life at risk by not doing their job properly and checking. Alarm bells should have been ringing.
'I really do dread to think what could have happened if he’d got out of Rome airport. I don’t think I would ever have seen him again.'
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