Funny, that's not what Spirit says...
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Due to additional Transportation Safety Administration screening requirements, customers wanting to check baggage are required to do so at the ticket counter at least 30 minutes before departure (45 minutes for Atlanta, Ft. Lauderdale, Las Vegas and Los Angeles; 60 minutes for international flights).
If you are not at the boarding gate more than 15 minutes prior to departure (30 minutes for international flights), you may lose your reservation and become ineligible for denied boarding compensation.
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AA doesn't say that either on it's website. Perhaps the TSA has "special" rules for United...
Putting a 6 year old unaccompanied next to a total stranger is unacceptable and unsafe. United doesn't know if that stranger is a paedophile or what. Furthermore, in an emergency decompression, is the stranger responsible for taking care of the child? What if they don't? In an emergency evacuation, ypthe evacuation could be impeded by parents trying to locate their child. The purser on this flight was thoroughly irresponsible and clearly too stupid to think through the implications of their very poor decision making.