Originally Posted by
kale73
There is an anecdotal story about a couple on their honeymoon who boarded a flight to Panama City, Florida instead of their intended destination in Panama. They arrived in Florida immediately before the airport was shut down due to an approaching hurricane. "For better or for worse..."
There have been a couple of apparently true stories of people booking to Sidney Canada vs. Sydney, Australia.
I've had a couple of hotel mishaps, (wrong month once, wrong hotel another), but haven't screwed up a flight yet.
Did cause someone else a little heartburn though. Over 20 years ago, my boss and I were at a conference in Mountain View, CA. San Jose was closer, but we had booked our flights to SFO because it was a lot cheaper. On the last day, we offered a ride to the airport to another attendee we had met since he didn't have a rental car and we were all flying DL. We never thought to ask which airport he was flying from. As we got near SFO, he said he didn't remember the airport being that far, turns out he was flying from San Jose. At this point, we didn't have near enough time to drive back to San Jose so he was going to have to take his chances at SFO. Of course, this was in the pre-cellphone days, so no way to try to deal with this from the road. We dropped him off at the counter before returning our rental car and wished him luck. It ended up working out ok, while he originally had a connection, DL switched him for free to a non-stop getting in around 9:00pm vs. the after midnight arrival he had scheduled.