‘They thought I was a child’: US airline repeatedly registers 101-year-old as baby

Patricia was left on one occasion without her reserved wheelchair at a terminal because of the mistake. Photograph: Joe Tidy

A 101-year-old woman has been frequently mistaken for an infant because an airline’s booking system was unable to compute her date of birth.

The woman, named only as Patricia, was born in 1922, but the American Airlines system apparently does not recognise that year, defaulting instead to 2022, the BBC reported.