AA Agent Credited with Saving Two Young Girls from Trafficking

From a better written article: "American Airlines agent Denise Miracle said it was all about trusting her gut instincts when two young girls came to her ticket counter. They had a number of small bags but told her they had no identification. "I think it was the way they kept looking back-and-forth at each other like they weren't really sure," said Miracle. "And then they were texting someone on the phone and that person was giving them answers." Miracle noticed the ticket from Sacramento to New York was purchased online, and the credit card had a different name. "It was a first class ticket. It was very expensive," said Miracle. "I told a supervisor, 'I'm going to call the sheriff. It just doesn't feel right to me.' It just did not feel right." When sheriffs deputies arrived, the girls, 15 and 17, told them they met a man called "Drey" on Instagram amd he invited them to New York for the weekend to earn $2,000 for some modeling in music videos.They had told their parents they were spending the night at each others' homes"

Nice catch, but ANYONE with a fraudulent credit card should automatically be denied boarding. The computer should do that. How else would an agent be able to do anything? AA's own policy has no restriction for children age 15-17 travelling alone. There is nothing illegal about buy a ticket for someone else.

lupine, why manufacture a negative slant to this story? The TA did something good. Leave it at that.

[QUOTE]Miracle noticed that the tickets had been purchased with fraudulent credit cards by a man that the two girls had met on Instagram and promised them money for “modeling.”[/QUOTE] What? How does one notice that? Good job by the TA though. Maybe not the job by the writer.

Ms. Miracle was a real AAngel for these girls. I hope she would have done the same thing even if the credit cards hadn't been fraudulent.