BUDGET airline Jetstar has apologised after refusing to allow the grieving mother of a New Zealand man killed in a shark attack to change her flight on compassionate grounds. Jeanette Strange of Wellington was already booked to travel from the capital to Auckland next week but tried to move the flight forward on Wednesday after learning her son Adam had been fatally mauled by a shark while swimming. Strange's sister Kay Cresswell said she called Jetstar and told them about the tragedy but the airline refused to fly her sibling to Auckland to be with her son's devastated family unless she paid an NZ$321 ($265) fare change fee. "I was disgusted with their lack of compassion and hung up,''...
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