A Porter Airlines flight was cancelled after a young child repeatedly refused to wear a seatbelt during takeoff, forcing the aircraft to return to the terminal.
In a statement to Global News, Porter said that on Aug. 6, the aircraft had already left the gate and was taxiing toward the runway scheduled for Toronto, when the child stood up and refused to buckle their seatbelt.
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The airline said both the child’s accompanying parent and flight crew tried to resolve the situation but were “unsuccessful.”
“The aircraft could not take off in this unsafe condition, so the crew elected to return to the terminal and have the passengers disembark,” Porter said.
Porter said the aircraft returned to the terminal, where the passengers were asked to leave the plane and their baggage was removed.
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The airline said the additional time required to complete those steps and refile the flight plan meant the flight could not depart before Victoria International Airport’s (YYJ) runway closed at 12:30 a.m.
As a result, the flight was cancelled.
“We apologize for the effect this had on other passengers, who were able to depart on a flight the following day,” the airline said.
If your flight was delayed, denied, or cancelled, you are eligible for compensation. File your claim at zero cost with http://www.airoright.com.
The parent(s) accompanying the child on the flight should have apologized to all the people on the flight for their childs behaviour. Why did the childs parents not do something to get the child to behave?
Send them to Gulag, 50 years!
Turdeau and Freeland offspring, Carnival carnie and a pig offspring?
Comments are a joke! Obviously they can all relate to the child because their children themselves.
that parent should have to pay all those people who were inconvenienced by their inability to control their child. disgraceful. will never fly porter airlines. doubt that the kid ever was sitting. How old was this child? were they neurodivergent? more details are needed. What happened to all those people who were not just inconvenienced but had to stay an extra day…people may have had jobs to go to..maybe it is time for there to be childless flights so grown-ups can get to where they need to go. Parents who cannot control their children should be barred from flying ever again.
The parents are to blame black list them and the other passengers should sue them for the delay and costs they have incurred
Why are Liberals the parents of this child as suggested by 2 commentors?
So many suggestions to get the child to sit~~~~
Sue the parents for the cost of the delay and cost to other passengers! Make it hurt big time!
When children are raised by liberals.
black list him from flying for 50 years on any airline that will teach him!
Can you imagine what this little imp is going to grow up like?
When you say “the passengers” had to disembark, are you referring to ALL the passengers, or just the parent and child? This makes a huge difference in the story. What sloppy reporting!
Why did ALL the passengers have to disembark, and not just the parent and child?? The most absurd thing I have ever heard. The other passengers should all sue Porter airlines.
This is the stupidest thing i have ever heard of this could only happen in canada
It was described as a toddler by CTV. I suspect the child was neurodivergent, but only because it’s difficult to envision how else a child could cause this much trouble for the parents and staff who were all trying to buckle the child into the seat.
How old was this child?
Absolutely ridiculous that a child , with their parent there, was allowed to act this way. They are a child. The parent is supposed to show them how to act , even when they don’t WANT TO especially when it’s for their own safety.
Where was the parent?
Kid and parents should’ve been removed. And flight continued as planned. Seriously
Kids these days.🤔
It doesn’t matter WHY the kid did this*, what matters is that it happned and it caused a disruption and kept removing restraints making it unsecured cargo. And shouldn’t be repeated if avoidable. (*politics, socially stunted from neglict or pathology, hangry)
Why weren’t the parents and kid removed from the plane so the plane could take off. I don’t understand why when you follow the rules you are the one to get punished. What has become of our world.
Why did they just not dump the kid and his parents off the flight and continue on? Why did they have to cancel?
The kid was a bit shaken, not stirred
Hey, anonymous, your spreading hate and promoting violence and murder over a crying child and you weren’t even there. I hope you shoot blanks . Psychotic behaviour man, and a crime.
Unless you can give us more details, stop running this story.
An excellent case for retroactive planned parenthood.
It’s VERY hard to believe the parents had so little control over that kid. Hopefully the kids parents will be fined to cover “all” costs associated with the delay..i.e. hotels, meals etc. I’m surprised some other passengers didn’t intervene. I would have!! What a selfish little imp and such ignorant parents.
So stupid. What an entitled, spoilt child. The entire passengers shouldn’t have had to suffer by cancelling the entire flight over a rambunctious kid. It should’ve been simply, the parent and the kid that should have been asked to leave the flight. The kid should’ve been punted.
The child was the boss, not the parents. Adults, your are the guardian and not the best friend of your child, otherwise they will never know self discipline and control.
Just to clarify they DID ask the parent and child to leave, brought stairs to have them deplane, got their luggage too. By that time the runway and air traffic controllers were off work, therefore the plane couldn’t takeoff.
kick the child and the parents off the flight!! porter inconvenienced how many people because of one feral child? i don’t care how neurodivergent the kid is or if they were too small to fit in the seat. a child is not a credible threat. the parents had no plan to control their child. the parents should be banned from the airline. this is an insane operational failure by porter. everyone else on that plane deserves restitution.
Why not simply put the child and parent off the plane snd carry on?
Who is in charge here? Sit your butt down now!
Ridiculous.
Shoot that little f *ck and the parent.
An effective solution is to have child-free zones when traveling. Switzerland does this with trains. There are sections on the trail that are quiet and children are not allowed. I just finished a month of traveling. I am an adult with autism. I’ve never needed my noise cancelling headphones like I have this year. I see many parents with children distributing others who just let them carry on. This is the way parenting is now. We are raising kids without respect for others. Some airplanes in Asia have a buffer zone between child and adults who’d prefer a quiet ride. Kids are ruling their parents these days. We will see some pretty selfish and entitled adults in years uears to come. This family should have been removed from the plane and held responsible for getting their own luggage…as the plane flew with the rest of the passengers who made plans to reach their destination. I definitely feel parents should be made to pay a fine if their child negatively affects the travel of others.
I can’t believe that the plane didn’t take off because of a toddler. Parents must have totally spoiled this child.
To Upset Reader and others defending this, saying there is much we don’t know, or that the child was very young and/or on the spectrum. You are right. We don’t know all the facts. Neither do you. But what we do know is our lived experiences. We live in a modern society full of inconsiderate people with many who have the spacial awareness of a lemming. And its worse in large urban areas. These parents had choices. They chose to fly with their child. They chose not to act when warned by the crew.
Duct tape..another one of its many uses..
This is idiotic. Of the parents are so stupid , the crew should be allowed to restrain the brat .
Spare the rod spoil the child. I think the parents owe the people a substantial amount for their delay.
Don’t tell me that a bunch of adults couldn’t get a child in a seat belt. How about these stupid people control their child or stay home
This sounds like nonsense and there is a lot more to this story. Hmmmm
Majority are extremely closed minded who are commenting. The child may have been possibly autistic. Not always easy to calm a child with ASD down.
Porter should be sued! Letting a reprobate cancell a full flight is a disgrace. Damn airline should have called security and tossed the family off.
Look at your comments… You’ve now made the parent the bad guy due to your misreporting of the situation. They didn’t refuse to wear it. They were to small and slip out under it every time they buckled it and was in the middle of a meltdown. It wasnt a child it was a baby.
This has to be a joke. He would have put that seatbelt on if he was my kid. That’s what gentle parenting does.
It wasn’t a child.. It was a 3 year old toddler have a disregulated meltdown. There wasn’t a child refusing to wear a seatbelt it was a toddler having a melt down that no parent could contain.
Parent should be ashamed.. and charged for the costs
Kid should have had his ass whipped.
So..were these parents and their ill behaved child allowed on the next day’s flight after causing this major disruption to other people’s lives?
A proper spanking would have fixed this behaviour years ago.
So a child now gets to decide? The parents in this failed on all levels.
The cost borne by the airlines for the delay should be assigned to the parent of that child and they should not be allowed to fly again.
Parent(s) should be held responsible for every cent it cost the airline and every passenger and then banned from the airline.
Parents should be fined because it impacted all the other people
Really demonstrates the continuing failure of airlines to respect paying customers.
Why wouldn’t the airline remove the parents and the child instead of cancelling the flight? Are these people that incompetent?
I’d be suing the parents for emotional distress. 50 grand for my 24 hr inconvenience sounds fair
Was the child Chucky??
The parents sound like the typical Toronto couple who go to a “farmers market” in May thinking they are buying local produce.
You take the seat belt, you put it on, you let the kid have a tantrum. And presto, the kid has no choice . Time for parents to regrow a spine. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then the road to heaven has to be paved with hardships.
Cindy, stop giving excuses. autism isn’t a free pass to allow bad behaviour.
Sue…no they cannot simply march them off a plane, once a flight has missed its scheduled time, it cannot simply be rescheduled, it can disrupt other flights. passengers baggage and belongings need to be removed, then paperwork and then rescheduling.
SS how are airlines supposed to know which passenger will be a problem?
to often fights are being cancelled because of people who cannot follow rules, about time passengers and airlines start suing these people.
What was the parents’ last name?
I can’t find my ass with both hands and a funnel.
Resistance is futile
But yeah, horrible people indeed. Nice weather lately, eh?
Police squad
Welcome to Canada. Can I fluff your pillows?
Get off my plane.
Is this a smoking flight?
Like. M.j. says, the kid is not my son. So enjoy civil court.
I’m amazed the child grew balls but the parent(s) didnt.
Garbage parents who raised a goblin
For those saying they should have just taken the family off and return to taking off. It’s not that simple. They need to remove persons and their luggage which could take time. They need to refuel. They need to do paperwork. They were probably already on tight schedule that’s why they decided to cancel because they wouldn’t arrive in time.
My question though, did the airline provide accommodations, transport, and meals?
Could they not get security and the air marshall and portable stairwell to go to the plane and just escort the parents and child off?
Another Damien?
Possibly a future PM.
These comments are disturbing. No one knows the whole situation. This child could have challenges that are not visible such as autism. You people should be ashamed.
… Powerless Parents? 🤔🤔
He could be the typical child of the international student immigrants who flooded into Canada through the loophole created by JT/JS.
That family should be black listed from all future flights. Why didn’t the parents just step up and restrain the child with the seat belt. What does this tell you about the parents disciplining their children.
They should have removed the parents and the child instead of canceling the flight.
Give the child the option to sit outside!
That’s why you give children Gravol before you arrive at the airport.
So forget the seat belt and use a generous length of duct tape wrapped several times around the brat!
Heard t was Trudeau’s kid. Total brat
A Liberal family no doubt. Obviously no discipline. Kia should be tarred and feathered.
Was kid inbred?
Carns kid from when he focked a sheep
Shame the parents, Release the names of these useless parents !!!
Probably clowncarns illegitimate child
DDE
So take them off.
Retrieve their luggage and start flying.
You don’t punish an entire airline because of one family.
Probably a peer poli type of kid.
should have taken off ANYWAYS,, and then kicked that rug-rat out of the plane,, MID-FLIGHT
A condom would have prevented this.
Someone should have punched that kid or parent in their face
What a broken fugging country!
Years ago a whack on the bum would have fixed the problem but that is child abuse these days. Problem is not teaching the child right and wrong will result in the child growing up liberal which is an even more abusive to the child and the child’s future.
The airlines couldn’t care less that they put hundreds of people in chaos. Customers have no choice, where else can they go? They can treat us however they want and they’re nothing we can do about it. They’d why they don’t hide their contempt for us anymore, they don’t need to
They love reminding us who’s in charge.
Dump the parents and the snot nosed toe rag on the runway and carry on !
What the heck is wrong with the parents?
Alexandra Newland Shea….this has nothing to do with wearing a mask or not by anyone. As I recall both Dems/Libs and Republicans didn’t like to wear the mask. I hope that you get the much needed mental health treatment that you require.
WHAT’S WORSE ? IT SHOWS THE CHILD CONTROLS THE PARENTS ! BECAUSE WE CANNOT DISCIPLINE OUR CHILDREN. DIRECT RESULT IS THIS BEHAVIOUR . SO SAD
OPEN DOOR, AND KICK THE LITTLE A S S HOLE OUT !!! ALONG WITH HE/SHE PARENT/PARENTS !!! NO STAIRS ! AND SAY ADIOS
this so Canada 2026
Disgraceful behaviour. Hopefully that family will be on the NO FLY list forever.
What is the consequence for this entitle POS?
I love how they left out thefa t that it was Lethbridge Liberace’s wife and kid that were the problem on the plane.
Parents should be named and banned from gling
Remove the child and parents…so easy.
Clearly it was a parent not having control of their child and they should have been removed.Perhaps passengers who cause delays for others should receive a huge fine.
The parents should be charged for all the additional costs the airline and other passengers were stuck paying
I believe the parents of the child should be held accountable for this and at the least banned from future Porter flights. Also, all carriers operating in Canada should be aware of the child’s behaviour and have the ability to put them on a “no fly” list.
Get serious you let some little brat do this
I hope the parents were charged a fee to accomodate every other PAX
Duct tape can cure many problems. Piece over the mouth. piece binding the hands together, problem solved.
I hope Porter charges the parents for the cancellation caused by this behaviour. People only learn if their actions, or inactions, have consequences.
You are kidding me right?
Everyone on that flight has to suffer because a parent cannot get their child to wear a seatbelt???? Let me think, MAYBE Porter should have removed the parent and child and carried on the scheduled flight!!!!!!!
This is bureaucracy out of control. The child (and parent) should have been removed and left in the terminal. Then the flight could have continued.
Who is in charge of this child? If I had done something like this, i would have received a good smack. They (The Parents) should pay compensation to all the other passengers!
A good spanking would have fixed that.
Please leave politics out of this conversation: parents not raising children as they should it’s happening from the left to the right.
And this is what teachers are dealing with every day! Parents, start parenting!
Liberal? MAGA? Neurodivergent?
We really don’t know the whole story, but it sure is fun to see how quickly the comments devolve into political bluster.
I would have forcefully strapped my young child into their seatbelt immediately. But then I’m a boomer, so what do you expect?
Child and parents out of the plane with parachute or not. 😂
Flight continues without them
Once upon a time children were brought up. Today some are simply thrown up🤮
Some parents children are entitled. I’d be pissed because of that brat.
Tale the child to the lavatory, explain it to his ass, then return him to the seat and buckle him in.
Parents have lost the ability to train their children. Liberals need to let them use the corrective measures necessary. The sooner in life the child learns the consequences for not listening, the easier they time they have with life.
What has this taught the child? They can get away with it. A cancelled flight would be worth thousands. Good lesson for the parent. What about the lesson for the liberals who are against training children? – where is their consequence?
Liberal child ? Did someone say ? You must have MISSED the MAGA crowd refusing to wear masks, socially distance, treat others with respect ( WE HAVE RIGHTS TOO … not to catch your effing germs 🦠) NOBODY is more of a problem than REDS
Kid doesn’t use a car seat ? Go to restaurants ? Wow bad time to teach your kid courtesy and manners.
Yup Liberal child flying from Lib city Victoria to Lib Toronto.
Global wrong plane in the picture. Those planes only fly shorthaul and to Billy Bishop, not Pearson.
Must have been a Liberal child.