Southwest Airlines employee mocks five-year-old girl called 'Abcde', says mother
A US airline has issued an apology after a mum claimed an employee mocked her five-year-old daughter's name, "Abcde", as they were preparing to board a Texas-bound flight home.
Key points:
- "Abcde" is pronounced "Ahb-sih-dee"
- A Southwest Airlines employee posted a picture of the child's boarding pass online
- The mum claims the airline "hadn't done anything" two weeks after she lodged a complaint
Mum Traci Redford told US broadcaster ABC7 a Southwest Airlines gate agent at John Wayne Airport, California, laughed at her daughter's name after seeing it on her boarding pass, before posting a picture of it on social media.
Ms Redford said the incident occurred when she was pre-boarding with Abcde — whose name is pronounced "Ahb-sih-dee" — as her daughter has epilepsy.
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Bullshite ... you name your child before/soon after (within a few days), no way they knew their child was epileptic.
As an aside ...
is naming a child “Abcde” unique? NOPE ... “According to the Social Security Administration database, 328 babies, all girls, have been named Abcde in the United States.
Since 1990, we’ve had Abcdes born every year except 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996.
The name was given to an all-time high of 32 babies in 2009, though the number has slightly declined each year since then.