A Jetstar flight attendant is being investigated over allegations he contacted an underage female passenger on Facebook using details gleaned from passenger records.
The male flight attendant allegedly sent a 15-year-old girl several messages via the social networking website after a flight from the Sunshine Coast to Melbourne last month, according to the ABC.
The contact occurred several hours after the pair met on a flight from the Sunshine Coast to Melbourne.
The teen did not give the attendant her name but within hours of the flight landing he had sent her several friend requests.
The mother of the girl contacted the ABC's AM program this morning to discuss the matter on air.
She had accompanied her daughter on the flight and had later alerted Jetstar to complain about the invasion of privacy.
"He's accessing the names of passengers, particularly my daughters who are underage, and then he's using that information to contact them … I find that really disturbing," she said.
The mother revealed the flight attendant still sends her daughter messages asking why she hasn’t added him as a friend.
"She started to get a little concerned: she was saying ‘does he know where we live?'" the woman said.
"She was a little bit disturbed by it and a little worried about what might happen to her."
The mother told the ABC she is concerned about other vulnerable young passengers.
"I am just worried about - particularly during the school holidays with teenagers flying all over the country on their own - that maybe there's been some impressionable girls who have said 'an older flight attendant, we'll add him'," she said.
"And I don't know where he's going with this, you know … if the girls had added him, would he then say, 'let's meet?'"
A Jetstar spokesman said the airline is investigating the complaint.
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