Originally Posted by
dan88
how can something like this happen in 2011? all of this "security", so many "checkpoints", and yet last night a passenger on my lax-jfk flight realized she was actually supposed to be going to sfo after the doors were locked. Hour and a half later, we finally left after letting her off and getting her baggage off. Does the ticket scanning at the gate not show that shes actually not on the flight? What good is scanning the ticket, just to prove you are supposed to be flying somewhere that day? obviously she holds a lot of blame for getting on the wrong flight, but the fact that it is even possible is ridiculous.
The scanner should have shown an error message when the BP was scanned. Maybe the GA was not paying attention. I was at LAX waiting at the next gate for a flight to SFO. There did seem to be a lot of confusion at the JFK gate, but I did not hear anything about this problem.
Originally Posted by
MR_MAMA
Sherri Shephard from the View was on that flight and talked about it on the show this morning. I don't know how that can happen these days.
Sitting at the next gate I heard her name called by a GA....wondered if it was really her. I guess this confirms it was.