Spirit Gives Sick 4 Year Old VIP Treatment With Private Jet

Correct, but than my next question, is it responsible to send an A320 while a smaller aircraft could have done the "almost" 1000 nautical miles as well? They all need money to survive but on the other hand they throw it out of the window.

Agreed. Between that ultra-confusing lede and the “Miss Four” thing, it was a very difficult-to-understand story.

I agree with your translation. Yes, the English language is subject to different uses and interpretations based on the speaker’s location as well as their upbringing (their experiences with language).

Congratulations. It wasn’t abundantly obvious to me. Why would a four-year-old care enough about the privilege of flying on an empty plane to be “ruined forever?” This is why I think I initially wrote off the pun and took it literally.

Still, a weird way to tell the story. Especially HEADLINE the story.

Agree with Guy. BTW, if this was a "news" piece, why was there a need to decipher the apparent story? This is not a forum for "can you figure out what we are attempting to say" efforts. The last I checked, it was an Aviation Forum. Let's move on and hope that Flight Aware will tighten up its editing practices. Was somebody on holidays?

Spoiled with private jet service, rather than the "mass transit" treatment. She will never want to fly on the airlines again (me neither - LOL).

Look. It is simple. If the reasoning behind the story was clear, why has so much time on an aviation interest website, been spent on debating the quality of the article's writing? Sorry, there is no excuse for poor and sloppy writing that is meant to represent news. Unless this was intended as a mystery article that was meant for interpretation, all that I can say is that the writing was very poor and the editing non-existent. Does not reflect well on any of the stakeholders (Flightaware, Spirit, the author (Simple Flying) etc). As it is FlightAware's website that pointed us to this dog's breakfast of penmanship, it was they who had the final say as to publish or not. Clearly fumbled the ball there.

I did. I guess reading it late at night didn’t help. For some reason I thought they flew from MBPV to PHL and then to Puerto Rico, which would have counted as repatriation. Even so I mentally dumped the Turks and Caicos part.

My apologies.