<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Tirreg:
A friend of mine who is working at the airport told me a funny story:
There was an elderly turkish lady who wanted to travel from FRA to somewhere in Turkey. Her family member where only allowed to accomply her to the immigration and she went alone to the gate (as she was only visiting her family and not living in Germany she couldnīt neither speak german or english). When they flight was announced she boarded the aircraft with all the other passengers without wondering that there were no turkish passengers on this flight. The gate reader didnīt work so the gate staff boarded all passengers manualy by entering the seat number (it must have been a pretty full charter flight with about 300 pax onboard and they didnīt check thorougly the destination on the boarding passes). As the load was o.k. they "closed the flight".
After a little while the turkish lady onboard the aircraft wondered why the flight was so much longer than the outward flight and someone explained to her (donīt ask me how) that she was sitting on a plane to Punta Cana in the Carribean...
Sometimes travelling isnīt that easy especially when youīre in a foreign country...</font>
My Aunt Luisa did that once. Was planning on going to PVR from GDL (25 minute flight), ended up on a flight to LAX instead (over three hours). One hour into the flight she was wondering why they weren't descending to land. Of course, she wasn't carrying her passport, so they shipped her back in the later flight back to GDL.
The funny part is that she had no excuse. She's from GDL, and her native (and only) language is Spanish. We still laugh about it 15 years after.