{"id":564318,"date":"2026-08-10T03:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564318\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T03:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:20:09","slug":"airline-cancels-canada-flight-after-child-refuses-to-sit-down-and-buckle-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564318\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline cancels Canada flight after child refuses to sit down and buckle up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A Porter Airlines flight in Canada was cancelled last week after a young child refused to sit down and buckle up, forcing the plane back to the terminal and delaying it past the airport\u2019s runway closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Toronto-based airline said Monday the parent and crew repeatedly tried unsuccessfully to secure the child in the seat before returning the plane to the terminal in Victoria International Airport in British Columbia to remove the parent and child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Porter said removing the parent and child and their baggage delayed the Toronto-bound flight on Thursday past the airport&#8217;s 12.30am runway closure, forcing the remaining passengers to disembark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Porter apologised to the other passengers, who were rebooked on a flight the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including St John braces for another hectic day, and a Brazilian footballers goal celebration goes bad. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Porter Airlines flight in Canada was cancelled last week after a young child refused to sit down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15656,138,111,139,64,69,112],"class_list":["post-564318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-air-travel","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-america","tag-nz","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}