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> says she is looking forward to her next flight in the autumn. By then she will be 102 - and perhaps by then the airline computers will have caught on to her real age.

I doubt it. More like she will be treated as a 2 year old and assigned her own seat.




Seat assignment is mostly independent of age. A child 2 or above must have a seat, but a child under two will have one if you pay. If she has been flying for free by exploiting being treated as under two, that'd have made for a much more entertaining article, though.




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