{"id":565882,"date":"2026-08-11T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/565882\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:32:14","slug":"porter-airlines-flight-cancelled-in-canada-after-child-refuses-to-sit-down-and-put-seatbelt-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/565882\/","title":{"rendered":"Porter Airlines flight cancelled in Canada after child refuses to sit down and put seatbelt on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">The delay eventually extended beyond the runway\u2019s 12.30am closure time, forcing all passengers to have to spend an extra night in Victoria and be rescheduled for flights the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAfter the aircraft left the terminal and proceeded to the runway for departure, a young child was standing in their seat and would not secure their seatbelt. Attempts by the accompanying parent and crew to address this were unsuccessful,\u201d Porter Airlines said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe aircraft could not take off in this unsafe condition, so the crew elected to return to the terminal and have the passengers disembark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">The age of the child is not known. It is also not known how many passengers were aboard the plane, which can carry 132 people.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flight CANCELLED after a KID refuses to sit down and buckle up<\/p>\n<p>A Porter Airlines plane was heading for the runway, but had to return to the terminal so the parent and child could be removed<\/p>\n<p>ALL other passengers had to disembark too <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ALsBzVVZu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6ALsBzVVZu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RT_com\/status\/2086704294905131274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">Passengers speaking to the media said there was a lot of \u201cfrustration\u201d about the incident and mentioned that the child was scared and kept sliding down the seat and hiding under it every time the seatbelt was on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">Porter Airlines apologised to passengers who had to find last-minute accommodation for the night and are now left to chase the company for compensation.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The delay eventually extended beyond the runway\u2019s 12.30am closure time, forcing all passengers to have to spend an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,17622,95,138,275,20703,2511,6097,70,305,78,111,139,69,90,47099,25057,9214,34600,14447,227608,140252,61,13835],"class_list":["post-565882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-airlines","tag-and","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-cancelled","tag-child","tag-down","tag-flight","tag-have","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-operated","tag-porter","tag-put","tag-refused","tag-refuses","tag-seatbelt","tag-sit","tag-to","tag-toddler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565882","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=565882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}