Hey, could we leave the sexist connotations out!!:td:

How is being Blonde sexist?? ;)

ATL ---> IAD - 534 Miles

ATL ---> DCA - 547 Miles

Clearly, she did it to try'n scam an additional 14 valuable SkyMiles! ;)

:D



Me too!

2 wrongs don't make a right but 3 lefts do.

and don't ever stop - great airport given an unnecessary undeserved rename - our tax dollars at work :td:

2 wrongs don't make a right, but 2 wrights made an airplane!

I wonder if she was actually trying to scam into DCA vs. IAD. Often, travel to/from DCA is more expensive than BWI and, to a lesser extent, IAD while DCA is much more convenient for those in DC, MD, Arlington County, Alexandria, and portions of Fairfax County. Perhaps that's why she became a bit mad. She just really wanted to ride Metro after her flight :rolleyes: .

Yeah... Drop by Mineta Airport sometime.

Wrong seat, wrong flight, wrong destination
 

I guess this is the reverse of your story. I was at IAD back in August and was at one of the kiosks. The woman next to me had her email receipt and was fumbling with the kiosk and couldn't get it to print a boarding pass. I glance over and notice she's leaving out of BWI in less than 2 hours. I tell her she's at the wrong airport, and she's so confused.

I have to wonder what she ended up doing because there was a cancellation so I doubt that she was able to get in a flight out of Dulles. At least in this situation, it showed that the kiosks don't print out passes for other airports, because I wonder what the tsa would do. (Though online printed boarding passes could still be taken to the wrong airport)

I bet they blame each other about 4 times! ;) sorry couldn't resist

In 2005, I was on a flight from DCA-DFW on American. The flight was fairly empty with only about 50% of the seats full. It was the last flight of the night, landing around 10 pm.

As we approached DFW, the pilot announced that we would be landing in DFW in about 20 minutes. The guy behind me rang his flight attendant call button. When the flight attendant came over, he said, "Did they say this flight is landing in Dallas? I'm supposed to be on a flight to Houston!" The flight attendant said, "Yes, this is a flight to Dallas." He repeated, "But, I'm supposed to be on a flight to Houston." The flight attendant said "That's impossible, the gate agent wouldn't have let you board if you were supposed to be on a flight to Houston."

The passenger pulled out his boarding pass -- and sure enough, he had a boarding flight for a flight to Houston and had boarded the flight to Dallas.

He asked the flight attendants if there were any other flights to Houston -- they said no because it was 10 pm. He said he had a big meeting he had to be in Houston for the next day. After we landed, I heard him call a rental car company and was going to drive from Houston to Dallas.

So -- yes, this does happen. And yes, sometimes nobody notices until the passengers are in the wrong city!

Or maybe from Dallas to Houston? :confused:

ain't no cure for stupid!

Or if she was getting a rental car and being told you're at the wrong facility.

Well, in that case, the GA typing in the seat assignment manually would not have produced an OK to board note. Obviously not excusing the GA.

+1

That's particularly impressive given that I don't think AA flew DCA-IAH in 2005 (if they ever did), which would mean this passenger was not only on the wrong flight but on the wrong airline!