http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/s...ity/54814492/1

This USA Today story is about business travelers flying to the wrong city, like Bloomington, IL instead of Bloomington, IN or wanting to travel to Tennessee and booking a flight to Memphis when they should have flown to Knoxville or Nashville.

I once boarded a flight from Houston IAH to New Orleans instead of the flight at the next gate to Miami. I ran off the plane when they announced it. The flight left from the circular concourses in the A terminal, where gates are a little close together. That was the old Eastern Airlines. The circular concourses are now just present in the B terminal but maybe not for long.

Not a good way to kick off a honeymoon.

Right City, wrong airport?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4857962.stm

The example that the guy from the "Business Travel Coalition" uses is pretty dumb.
Pretty hard to book a ticket to Philadelphia, Mississippi considering that the city has no commercial airline service. There are tons of better examples but this guy has to pick this one?

Given the way some commuter terminals are organised, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often. Terminal A at IAD comes to mind.

I could imagine a few people going to the wrong Springfield.

When I was working for a disaster relief agency, a good friend of mine showed up for his assignment at the hurricane in Columbia, South Carolina. He was totally shocked when he got there and they were boarding a plane for Colombia, South America, for the earthquake or whatever was at the same time.

I remember him saying "I should have known when they said to bring a passport"

Edited to fix spelling of Colombia

I fly to CHS often and have had people on several flights during the past 15+ years who really wanted to go to Charleston, WV (I can't even think of the airport code).

My dad once flew to Frankfurt Germany, but his luggage wound up in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Was either location the intended destination?

I've never ended up in the wrong place, but my luggage, bound for Jackson, MS (JAN) has ended up in Jacksonville, FL (JAX) more than once.

Not myself, but I actually saw the Bloomington IN/IL problem happen to some folks! I was at a conference in Bloomington Indiana (which I can drive to) and a carload of folks arrived quite late for the conference because they had flown to Illinois. They didn't catch it until they piled into the rental car, plugged the conference hotel address into the GPS, and it told them it was a 4+ hour drive. they went back up to the rental car counter, "uh, is this thing right?"

I also have some friends who went to the airport (STL) with the intent to just pick a flight when they got there...just jump on a plane for a destination they would choose in the moment (this was decades ago). They saw "Ontario, CA" on the board and thought, "great, Canada will be fun". Imagine their surprise when they got off the plane and they were in Ontario California.

My cousin just told me that last week he was boarding a commuter flight (somewhere) that had two flights boarding at the same time at the same gate to different destinations. Even though it was announced multiple times, once on board several people had to get off one plane and onto another before they could leave.

Back in the 90's, got back home to London late Sunday night from a two weeks vacation and called the airline to book my pretty regular Monday morning flight to Belfast to go to the office. Went to the airport next morning, took flight, walked out of the terminal and headed to the car park to where my car.....

Then I remembered, no it wasn't. I had flown out of Dublin two and a bit weeks earlier and that's where my car was.....

Pretty sure HE was in the right place. He was meeting my mom's parents for the first time..

Caught a train once from Milano Centrale to Lausanne thinking that was the French spelling of Luzern