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A boy was abandoned by his parents at the check-in counter at Tel Aviv airport, authorities said.
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The parents arrived late for their flight and didn’t have tickets for the infant to travel, CNN reported.
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The couple then tried to board a Ryanair flight to Brussels, according to the Israeli Airports Authority.
According to Israeli authorities, the boy was abandoned by his parents at the check-in counter at Tel Aviv airport after arriving late for his flight and did not have a ticket for the infant to travel.
Unidentified parents who had Belgian passports left their baby in a carrier inside the Israeli airport authority’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday. told CNN.
“A couple with Belgian passports and an infant arrived at Terminal 1 without a ticket for the infant,” the Israeli airport authority said in a report.
The agency added, “The couple also arrived late to their flight after flight check-in closed.”
The parents then “left the child seat with the baby and ran to the security checkpoint in Terminal 1 to get to the boarding gate,” according to the Israeli Airports Authority.
A Ryanair spokeswoman told CNN that the couple “left the baby behind at check-in” and headed to security after not booking the baby.
It’s unclear if the parents were unable or unwilling to buy tickets for the baby.
An airline spokeswoman said, “A check-in officer at Ben Gurion Airport has contacted airport security and rescued the passenger.This is now a local police matter.”
The infant was eventually reunited with his parents by the time police arrived on the scene.
“The baby is with his parents and there are no further investigations,” an Israeli police spokesman told CNN.
The incident apparently left Ryanair staff dumbfounded.
“All the employees were shocked. We had never seen anything like it before. We couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” said the Ryanair manager. told local news outlet N12.
According to his parents, he never took a plane. Israel Hayom.
Ryanair and Israeli airport authorities did not immediately respond to requests for comment by Insider on Wednesday.
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