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Airline mix-up sends passengers to wrong continent
A couple who had intended to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal, ended up 7,000 miles away in Dhaka, Bangladesh, because of an airline error. Sandy Valdivieso and her husband Triet Vo, 39, told the Los Angeles Times that they didn't think anything was amiss when they got their Turkish Airlines boarding passes for their flights from Los Angeles to Dakar, the capital of Senegal. Their passes had them going from LAX, the airport code for Los Angeles International Airport, to IST, Istanbul,… (www.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I suspect this kind of stuff up is more common than we know. Anecdotal stories of similar events have been around for years. I live in Melbourne but I sure as aint in Florida.
Ok, Time to dump this. The children are starting to bicker.
Dear Ms. Lasne: Clean up your language. This is not a suitable forum for vulgarity. Grow up.
To bad they were not more attentive. Attentiveness means "showing the worth of a person or task by giving my undivided concentration."
About 20 years ago, prior to ticket barcoding, I was connecting in Atlanta, going to Greenville, SC. Running late and running to the flight, I boarded the aircraft, moved to the rear cabin where my seat was located, and stored my carry-on bag overhead. I turned to find my seat occupied, and said, "I think I have this seat." The lady in the seat produced a ticket with the same seat number. I had a bewildered look on my face for an instant before she said, "...going to Memphis." I said, "this plane is going to Greenville." She became flustered, stood up, grabbed her bag and deplaned. I sat down, turned to the guy in the window seat and said with a smile, "she thought this plane was going to Memphis." He replied, [wait for it], "it is." I met one angry lady coming back up the aisle as I was deplaning.
How can the people affected can be employed by UCLA? At least they should had make sure they had the correct airport code, or if they were heading the correct country. They also were sent to their destinations with no further cost, maybe they only want to sue the airline.