Frontier Airlines said they cancelled a flight from Florida on Sunday after a “large group” of passengers refused to wear masks — but the family involved claims they were booted simply because of a maskless baby.
The fracas took place aboard flight 2878, which was set to depart Miami en route to LaGuardia Airport at 7 pm until the disagreement forced all passengers to deplane and reschedule a flight for the next morning.
“Multiple people, including several adults, were asked repeatedly to wear their masks and refused to do so,” the airline said in a statement Sunday night.
In video footage of the incident, the father can be seen explaining that the child was under the age of two.
The parents told the attendants they would try to fit a covering on the baby, but that did not stop them from taking action.
Numerous passengers can be heard calling out the flight staff for what they believed to be an unjustified action.