Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of a [glitch in] an airline’s booking system. The problem occurs because American Airlines’ systems apparently cannot compute that Patricia, who did not want to share her surname, was born in 1922, rather than 2022. The BBC witnessed the latest mix-up, which she and the cabin crew were able to laugh off. ‘It was funny that they thought I was only a little child and I’m an old lady!’ she said. It happened when Patricia was flying between Chicago and Marquette, Michigan — a flight this reporter was also travelling on. Patricia was flying with her daughter, Kris. ‘My daughter made the reservation online for the ticket and the computer at the airport thought my birth date was 2022 and not 1922’, she told me. ‘The same thing happened last year and they were also expecting a child and not me.'” (04/28/24)