This incident really happened. I am not joking or making it up. This happened long before the 9/11 incident.
It was night time at the Los Angeles International Airport. There was a passenger waiting to board a plane. He was going to Oakland, California. This is San Francisco’s twin city. The flight time from Los Angeles to Oakland is only 50 minutes.
They made the flight announcement.
He boarded the plane. The plane took off. After an hour into the flight dinner was served. He was puzzled why they were serving dinner in a 50-minute flight. He did not say anything and ate the dinner with a few glasses of wine.
After a few hours, he could not keep quiet. So, he called one of the flight attendants and asked why it is taking so long to reach Oakland.
The flight attendant replied: Sir, we are now flying over Honolulu. This flight is going to Auckland, New Zealand.
Oh my God! He must have been terrified. I remember a more or less a similar incident that happened at Kingfisher airlines. A guest as we call the passengers at KFA boarded Calcutta as it was then called instead of Calicut flight ✈️
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Coach. This is hilarious.
DeleteHa ha It is a practical comedy. Will the airline bear the return ticket cost since it is obviously their mistake? Poor guy at the same time lucky too, he had free drinks and food.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Gowri. As the story goes, the airline gave him a free return ticket. Fellow passengers asked him to stay in Auckland with them for a few days for sightseeing. But the airline disallowed it. Either he returns in the next flight or he pays himself for the return ticket (if he chooses to stay for a few days). The passenger chose to return home in the next flight.
DeleteCorrect decision
ReplyDeleteTake care Gowri
DeleteInteresting read. Don't they check the tickets before boarding
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Mr. KP. This was before 9/11. Checks and securities were minimal or non-existent.
DeleteI thought the wrong booking was his mistake.. The differencevin the price should've been huge!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Rajesh. It was not wrong booking. He heard Auckland as Oakland. It Is the fault of the gate agent for not checking his ticket.
DeleteInteresting usually don't they check the boarding pass in the entrance and that should havd caught this right....also didn't he hear the flight announcement??
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Dee. It was way before 9/11. In fact no checking at all. Once my wife and kids were inside the plane. I told the gate agent I want to tell something to my wife. She let me inside the plane to talk to my wife and come back.
DeleteGoodness I would totally panic if that happened to me. Glad he was given a free return ticket.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Eveclair. And, welcome to my blog. I would panic too.
DeleteEveclair, please visit here as often as possible. Thanks.
what!!!! crazy!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Sujatha.
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