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2010-08-13, 09:32 AM
'I just wanted to fly,' 15-year-old Bridget Brown says
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Three Florida children bought tickets with baby-sitting money and flew to Nashville, Tenn., on Southwest Airlines — unbeknownst to their parents.
Fifteen-year-old Bridget Brown had $700 saved and asked a 13-year-old friend where he wanted to go.
The friend, Bobby Nolan III, suggested Nashville (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38689612/ns/travel-news/#).
"I just wanted to fly," 15-year-old Bridget Brown told Florida's First Coast News (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=163061&catid=3). "I had the money (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38689612/ns/travel-news/#)."
Together with Brown's 11-year-old brother, the three took a taxicab to Jacksonville International Airport and bought three tickets at the counter. The children say no one asked them for identification.
"He said ok and told us how much it would be and then we paid him," Brown told First Coast News (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=163061&catid=3). "Then he put the flight things on our bags and then he said you better run because you might miss your flight."
They called their parents from Nashville and immediately flew home.
Southwest Airlines told WJXT TV (http://www.news4jax.com/index.html) in Jacksonville (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38689612/ns/travel-news/#) that Southwest Airlines told Channel 4 the kids did not break any of their policies. The airline added that it would refund the costs of the tickets.
© 2010 msnbc.com
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Three Florida children bought tickets with baby-sitting money and flew to Nashville, Tenn., on Southwest Airlines — unbeknownst to their parents.
Fifteen-year-old Bridget Brown had $700 saved and asked a 13-year-old friend where he wanted to go.
The friend, Bobby Nolan III, suggested Nashville (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38689612/ns/travel-news/#).
"I just wanted to fly," 15-year-old Bridget Brown told Florida's First Coast News (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=163061&catid=3). "I had the money (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38689612/ns/travel-news/#)."
Together with Brown's 11-year-old brother, the three took a taxicab to Jacksonville International Airport and bought three tickets at the counter. The children say no one asked them for identification.
"He said ok and told us how much it would be and then we paid him," Brown told First Coast News (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=163061&catid=3). "Then he put the flight things on our bags and then he said you better run because you might miss your flight."
They called their parents from Nashville and immediately flew home.
Southwest Airlines told WJXT TV (http://www.news4jax.com/index.html) in Jacksonville (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38689612/ns/travel-news/#) that Southwest Airlines told Channel 4 the kids did not break any of their policies. The airline added that it would refund the costs of the tickets.
© 2010 msnbc.com