{"id":581851,"date":"2026-08-11T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581851\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:46:08","slug":"canadian-airline-cancels-flight-after-child-refuses-to-wear-seatbelt-airline-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581851\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian airline cancels flight after child refuses to wear seatbelt | Airline industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A Canadian airline cancelled a flight from Victoria to Toronto after a child refused to wear a seatbelt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The child was standing in their chair as the 6 August Porter Airlines flight taxied towards the runway, the airline said. Repeated attempts by an accompanying parent and crew to secure the child in their seat failed, so the crew elected to return to the terminal and have the two passengers disembark as \u201cthe aircraft could not take off in this unsafe condition\u201d, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Brad Cicero, a spokesperson for the airline, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that all passengers had to disembark, as the time needed to remove only the child and their parent and refile paperwork meant the plane could not take off before the airport closed at 12:30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe apologise for the effect this had on other passengers, who were able to depart on a flight the following day,\u201d he told the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Passenger Aryeh Kozuch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianpressnews.ca\/national\/child-who-prompted-porter-airline-flight-cancellation-not-at-fault-passenger-says\/article_52257f7f-0be7-5334-8758-1af505028adc.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Canadian Press<\/a> that the child was not being unruly, and that online comments admonishing the parents did not \u201cempathetically capture the situation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThey just kept hiding under their seat,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they got forced into [being] strapped in, they just kind of slid out underneath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThis was a child that was in a tube with 150 people \u2026 They\u2019re obviously terrified, and their response was to try and hide under the seat in front of them,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s so different than a kid running around and screaming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Hillary Hertzberg, another passenger, said the airline could have acted faster. \u201cIt took for ever,\u201d Hertzberg told CBC. \u201cThe kid eventually got off the plane at 11.30 so we had been on the flight for almost an hour at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Porter Airlines said passengers were rebooked on a different flight the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Canadian airline cancelled a flight from Victoria to Toronto after a child refused to wear a seatbelt.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-581851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}