Couple leave their baby at airport check-in and try to board Ryanair flight after refusing to buy ticket for tot

A COUPLE have left their baby at an airport check-in and tried to board a Ryanair flight after refusing to buy a ticket for the tot. The parents who were Belgian passport holders were arrested by police after they abandoned their son at the check-in at the Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. Footage shows the baby left at the check-inkan.org.il Airport staff called the police who took the parents in for questioningkan.org.il The pair wanted to board a flight heading to Brussels but didn’t have a ticket for their baby boy. After refusing to pay for one they left their child in the stroller and walked to passport control. Footage shows the little boy in his stroller being left at the counter of the check-in desks. The manager of the Ryanair desk told N12 that everyone was left in shock watching what happened. He said: “We’ve never seen anything like this. “We couldn’t believe what we were seeing.” Airport staff contacted the police, who found the parents and took them in for questioning. The airport explained in a statement that the couple had arrived late for their flight. They said: “The couple arrived late for the flight after the flight’s check-in counters had closed. “They left the basket with the baby and wanted to go up to the security check-in Terminal 1 to get to the departure gate.” The pair was then taken back to the flight counters to pick up the child. Last year, airport staff discovered a newborn baby boy in the bin of a plane toilet. A 20-year-old passenger from Madagascar, who is suspected to have given birth on the flight to Mauritius, was arrested in connection with the incident. And a mum was left fuming after her 11-year-old son was kicked off a flight and was left stranded at the airport. A child was left in tears on a Ryanair flight after a woman refused to move out of the seat she was booked in. The airline said an “IT glitch” caused the double booking that led to the six-year-old boy unable to sit in the seat he had picked.