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Old Jan 1, 2014 | 2:32 am
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evanroberts
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
The famous incident was a person IIRC at LAX trying to go to OAK who misunderstood the local regional accent and boarded a flight to ACK. That would be an expensive ticket home!
Auckland is AKL. Here is the story: http://articles.latimes.com/1985-04-...urope-vacation

Now that NZ flies SFO-AKL (and is my preferred route to do MSP - WLG), several times a year I have a conversation with people in Minnesota where they ask "how do you get from MSP to WLG", and I say "well you fly to San Francisco, and then to Auckland." Then a look of puzzlement comes over their face and I know they are hearing "Oakland" instead of "Auckland".
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