Originally Posted by
donaldsc
Same sort of thing happened to a friend of ours. They have 2 homes - one in Austin TX and one in Broomfield CO. They switch the location of "home" when they switch homes but this time she forgot. She was outside of Austin in a location she was not familiar so she hit home on the GPS. About 3/4 hours later, she realized that she was headed north toward Colorado.
At least it was not 5 hours.
Along the same lines, there is a Sydney Australia and a Sydney Canada. I have heard stories about people booking plane trips to the wrong Sydney.
DON
Wasn't this on the news a few months ago? Some Turkish Airlines pax booked a trip to Dhaka, Bangladesh when they meant to go to Dakar, Senegal?