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   From: air.gestapo@united.com   
      
   United Airlines requires children over the age of 2 to have   
   their own tickets and occupy their own seats, but that didn’t   
   stop the airline from allowing a 27-month-old child from sitting   
   in his mother’s lap after they accidentally oversold his spot.   
      
   Shirley Yamauchi says she and her son Taizo had boarded their   
   flight from Houston to Boston on June 29 — the final leg of an   
   18-hour flight from Hawaii — when a standy passenger approached   
   and claimed Taizo was in his seat.   
      
   "I told him that I bought both of these tickets and he tells me   
   that he got the ticket on standby. Then he proceeds to sit in   
   the center,” Yamauchi told Hawaii News Now.   
      
   Yamuachi says she tried to inform a flight attendant about   
   Taizo’s seat, but the woman claimed she couldn’t do anything   
   about it, seeing as the flight was full.   
      
   Not wanting to cause a scene — or worse, instigate an incident   
   like the one that befell the elderly United passenger who   
   refused to give up his seat on in April — Yamuachi sat Taizo on   
   her lap and kept her mouth shut until she reached Boston.   
      
   "I started remembering all those incidents with United on the   
   news. The violence. Teeth getting knocked out. I'm Asian. I'm   
   scared and I felt uncomfortable. I didn't want those things to   
   happen to me," she told Hawaii News Now.   
      
   Upon reaching Boston, Yamauchi was told to call a United hotline   
   to explain the situation. But when she finally got through and   
   asked for a refund, she was told that United would need to   
   cancel her return trip to Hawaii in order to do so, reports KITV.   
      
   In total, Yamauchi told Hawaii News Now she had paid nearly   
   $2,000 for both tickets.   
      
   A United spokesperson tells Fox News that the airline has   
   already reached out to Yamauchi to apologize for the incident.   
   The airline also pinpointed the cause of the seating snafu,   
   explaining that Taizo’s ticket was incorrectly scanned at the   
   gate.   
      
   “On a recent flight from Houston to Boston, we inaccurately   
   scanned the boarding pass of Ms. Yamauchi’s son,” said United in   
   a statement obtained by Fox News. “As a result, her son’s seat   
   appeared to be not checked in, and we released his seat to   
   another customer and Ms. Yamauchi held her son for the flight.   
      
   "We deeply apologize to Ms. Yamauchi and her son for this   
   experience," the statement continued. "We are refunding their   
   tickets and providing compensation as a goodwill gesture. We are   
   also working with our employees to prevent this from happening   
   again.”   
      
   Yamuachi, however, doesn’t sound too keen on flying with United   
   anytime soon.   
      
   "It's worrisome,” said Yamuachi, according to KITV Everyone who   
   has helped me so far has contradicted each other. With their   
   suggestions, this needs to stop. United has made errors that   
   make national headlines … yet, it continues.”   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/07/05/united-airlines-gives-2-   
   year-olds-seat-away-to-standby-passenger.html   
      
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