‘Daddy Shirt’ Returned By Airline To Grieving Child
An airline has found and returned a lost “daddy shirt,” causing the hard-bitten frequent flyers among us to take a break from our moaning and complaining to say “awww.”
A 7-year-old boy, Cole Holzer, forgot a very special shirt when he was on a late March flight from Fargo, North Dakota to San Diego, California. The well-worn shirt belonged to his father, who passed away about two years ago. By the time they realized the shirt was left behind, the plane had already departed on its next flight.
The shirt was reportedly the one that Bryan Holzer, Cole’s dad, was wearing when he fell and died while hanging Christmas decorations. Cole still takes it everywhere he goes.
A family friend assisted with making multiple phone calls and Facebook posts to run down the shirt. Unfortunately, the shirt wasn’t found on the plane.
Ultimately, the cleaners actually checked through the garbage to find the shirt. Now that’s really going the extra mile.
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lost items, are left behind on airplanes every year. In a recent year, Southwest Airlines revealed that they had 88 million passengers who left behind up to 10,000 items every single month.
In the same report, American Airlines noted that the cost of returning lost items to passengers could be significant. Items that can’t be reunited with their owners are eventually sold to a salvage company, but a spokesman admitted that the airline lost money on the deal.
In honor of Earth Day, here’s another way that Delta Airlines is trying to make a difference.
Happy #EarthDay! See how our In-Flight Recycling Program is making a difference across the U.S. twitter.com/Delta/status/3…
— Delta (@Delta) April 22, 2013
An airline returning a “daddy shirt” may seem like a small thing by comparison, but I bet it means the world to Cole Holzer.
[Delta airplane photo by spotterjohnsen via Wikipedia Commons]
