Great travel buddy: Pedraza sent Landon's mum a message, to ease her worries. Photo / Facebook.com
When Alexa Bjornson packed her seven-year-old son off for his first solo flight, she had additional worries to those any mother might have.
Diagnosed with high-functioning autism the young boy would be flying from Las Vegas to Oregon with an added challenge. Bjornson worried that Landon's unfiltered curiosity and tendency
to ask "are we there yet?" might be equally challenging to whichever passenger had to share a seat with her child.
So she came up with a plan to explain the situation to her son's Southwest Airlines seatmate, via a hand written note.
Tucked into the note was a $10 bill, by way of thanks for looking after her child.
"I thought, 'How do I make it so whoever's sitting next to him won't look at him as a burden but more of like, 'I can help this kiddo get through the day'," Bjornson told the Portland TV station KATU.
Fortunately - with this note and a bit of luck in and seating allocation - Landon was placed next to a passenger who found the boy was no burden at all.
