Oklahoma high school scammed out of Orlando senior trip; the Ozarks steps up

BRANSON, Mo. (KY3) – Some Oklahoma highschool graduates are vacationing within the Ozarks.

The issue is that they paid cash to be in Orlando. However after they confirmed up on the Springfield airport, they found that they had fallen sufferer to a rip-off.

These 40 college students and chaperones have gotten over the preliminary shock and say they’re profiting from their time right here within the Ozarks.

Brenda Taylor is the superintendent of the Oklahoma Union Public College District. She’s additionally a mum or dad to a senior on the journey.

”We really are a household and so to take a look at them and to say that we weren’t going to go was laborious,” Taylor says.

The scholars raised cash all 12 months lengthy to fly to Florida to have fun commencement.

“They googled allegiant airways, bought a quantity there, known as and began speaking to an individual there who represented themselves as allegiant airways reservation desk. The communication began at that time for about 10 or 12 weeks,” Taylor says.

Nevertheless, the airline informed them there was no group reservation after they arrived on the airport.

Of the 40 airline tickets they have been purported to have, there have been solely 28 booked.

In spite of everything of their laborious work, senior Julia Barron tells me it was disappointing to listen to.

“We sort of have come collectively as a category to get to have this enormous purpose that we dreamed of, and it was taken away from us,” Barron says.

Regardless of the flip of occasions, they determined to remain within the Ozarks and profit from it. They spent the day at Wonders of Wildlife in Springfield on Wednesday. They spent your complete day at Silver Greenback Metropolis Thursday. The points of interest donated the tickets.

“We don’t stay right here,” Barron says. “I imply we’re from Oklahoma, so after we got here right here and determined to remain in Branson, we simply began receiving assist from all totally different sorts of locations, and it was wonderful to expertise the sort of love that they actually have proven us.”

And it is probably not the journey that they had in thoughts.

“We’ve truly had some youngsters say it’s higher than Disney World, so I believe we’re having a good time,” Barron says.

Taylor says the senior class spent practically $11,000 on the journey, a few of that now a complete loss.

“They knew that one thing was improper, in order that they took our numbers that we had been utilizing to speak with the reservation desk, they usually have been in a position to look into their system and discover out that it certainly was a rip-off,” Taylor says.

Taylor says they’re working with Allegiant to attempt to get refunds or vouchers for the 28 tickets they did have reserved.

The opposite 12 tickets are an entire loss.

On Friday, the scholars are trying ahead to spending the day at Dogwood Canyon.

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