Mother of boy placed on wrong JetBlue flight says airline offered her $10k

Mother of boy placed on wrong JetBlue flight says ******* offered her $10k

NEW YORK — After JetBlue mistook her five-year-old son for another ***** and flew him to the wrong city, Maribel Martinez says the ******* reached out to her to offer a ‘gift’ of US$10,000.

According to the Gothamist, Martinez allegedly received a call from JetBlue’s corporate headquarters on Sept. 3, two days after the ******** made international news. An ******* supervisor spoke to Martinez through a Spanish-language translator.

“She apologized for what happened and said she was a mother too, and felt bad about what happened,” Martinez said. “They wanted to give me a gift of $10,000 for what happened.” However, Martinez had no interest taking the offer and hung up, but not before telling the ******* rep to contact her lawyer.

“I felt bad, like they were trivializing the matter,” she said.

Martinez’s high profile attorney, Sanford Rubenstein, claims the ******* was probably attempting to get Martinez to sign a document releasing JetBlue from any damages. Rubenstein has since written a letter to Joanne Geraghty, JetBlue’s general counsel, ordering the ******* to hot have further contact with his client.

After her son was eventually located and returned to her, JetBlue refunded Martinez $475 for her son’s flight and had given her a $2,100 credit for future flights. Martinez says her family won’t be flying with the ******* ever again.






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