Originally Posted by
dvs7310
LOL, oops. That's a good one.
I have a feeling it was at one of the bus gates. The holding areas for these gates are an absolute madhouse in ADD and it's really not always clear which plane they are currently boarding. Sometimes the staff just tear the tab off the boarding pass and don't scan it into the computer until later, scanning would alert them that someone was boarding the wrong plane. I can see this happening quite easily in ADD, I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen with some regular frequency actually though I imagine in most cases it would be found out before takeoff when someone with the same seat assignment comes along.
This is exactly what happened. Same gate, different buses. The flight to Libreville was quite empty and I even had 3 seats to myself.
Originally Posted by
KLouis
You just went into a plane, at the wrong gate? Well, it takes two to tango...
I was referring to checking BP upon boarding the aircraft. I was at the right gate, got on the wrong bus. The purser even found me to apologise saying the she was the one checking BPs in ADD but failed to notice my destination. Honestly, I was never upset about the whole affair as I was able to fly straight back to ADD and catch the last flight to NBO. It was just an extra flight which as an Avgeek is never a bad thing but I was very tired having flown BOS-ORD-IAH-DME-SIN-BOM-ADD in the three days prior (probably why I fell asleep as soon as I boarded thus missing the welcome announcements). My biggest regret is that I never claimed the miles for the extra flights
