Couple leave ticketless baby at Israeli airport check-in

[marmar]

(CNN) — A couple abandoned their baby at an airport check-in desk in Tel Aviv, Israel after arriving without a ticket for the child.

The pair, who have not been identified, were checking in for a Ryanair flight from Ben Gurion International Airport to Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday with the infant.

It emerged that the baby did not have a ticket, and the couple headed off to board the flight -- leaving their child behind on the airline check-in counter.

The matter was referred to police, a spokeswoman for Ryanair told CNN in an email.

She said: "These passengers traveling from Tel Aviv to Brussels (31 Jan) presented at check-in without a booking for their infant. They then proceeded to security leaving the infant behind at check-in.

"The check-in agent at Ben Gurion Airport contacted Airport Security, who retrieved these passengers, and this is now a matter for local police." ...............(more)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/baby-left-airport-scli-intl/index.html

[GreenWave]

1. Lock them up!

[hlthe2b]

2. I'm guessing there is a lot more to come on this story...

Were they even the child's parents?

Bizarre.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. I can't see the actual parents of an infant ever doing this

Or if they did, you'd know they were up to no good of some kind. Perhaps ... smuggling?

[JohnSJ]

4. That is my thought as well Hugh

[atreides1]

5. Really?

The name Susan Smith ring a bell?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. Okay it's not 100% unheard of, but statistically unlikely

If I were going to bet money, it would be on '20,000 ecstasy pills found in their bags'. Either that or was a custody thing, maybe it's the woman's baby but not the mans, and the new couple were trying to make off with it against the fathers wishes. And they gave it a shot, knowing that if they left it behind, it would get back to the father, something like that.