Quartz: It's actually way easier than you think to board the wrong flight
Dec 28, 2017, 11:36 pm
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Quartz: It's actually way easier than you think to board the wrong flight
Model and prolific tweeter Chrissy Teigen once again delighted the internet yesterday, as she live-tweeted a both maddening and surreal travel experience: An All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight from Los Angeles International to Tokyo’s Narita airport turned around and went back to LA, four hours into the trip. The reason? One of the passengers on board was not on the flight’s manifest.
While inconvenient, flight turn-arounds are not completely uncommon. According to the New York Times, “In the last 24 hours, Flightradar found that 10 flights (of about 150,000) had returned to their origin, for reasons including mechanical issues, weather, a disabled aircraft at the destination airport and, of course, a confused passenger.” Why the pilot turned around the ANA flight—rather than continue on with the trip and deal with the errant passenger on the other end—isn’t entirely clear. But an airline statement affirmed the pilot’s judgement call, saying that it was in keeping with security protocol.
In response to the incident, the internet has been fixated on how, exactly, someone could possibly board the wrong flight. In the era of overzealous security, multiple passport and boarding pass checks, and endless PA announcements pre-boarding, could that many things really go wrong?
The answer, in short, is yes, they can—and they often do.
https://quartzy.qz.com/1167323/chris...-wrong-flight/
While inconvenient, flight turn-arounds are not completely uncommon. According to the New York Times, “In the last 24 hours, Flightradar found that 10 flights (of about 150,000) had returned to their origin, for reasons including mechanical issues, weather, a disabled aircraft at the destination airport and, of course, a confused passenger.” Why the pilot turned around the ANA flight—rather than continue on with the trip and deal with the errant passenger on the other end—isn’t entirely clear. But an airline statement affirmed the pilot’s judgement call, saying that it was in keeping with security protocol.
In response to the incident, the internet has been fixated on how, exactly, someone could possibly board the wrong flight. In the era of overzealous security, multiple passport and boarding pass checks, and endless PA announcements pre-boarding, could that many things really go wrong?
The answer, in short, is yes, they can—and they often do.
https://quartzy.qz.com/1167323/chris...-wrong-flight/
