I went to the USAir terminal at LAX once when I should have gone to United, but I've never gone to the wrong airport.

However, early in my career as a novice traveler a few of us flew AA into Dallas from OKC a day earlier than a couple of our coleagues. Since I had the rental car I offered to pick them up in the morning when their flight got in. I'm on my cell phone talking to my co-worker as I drive around DFW with him swearing that they're right outside baggage claim. When I tell him I'm right in front of the AA pick-up location, he points out that they flew Southwest down. I still drove around the terminal one more time before asking someone where the Southwest terminal was. Didn't get an answer I was expecting and had to haul it over to DAL while they waited on the curb.

Didn�t happen to me, but in Ireland I have seen American passengers who sometimes show up in DUB airport when they are actually flying out of SNN, which is around 4 hours away... They always blame their travel agent, but the ticket clearly says Shannon and not Dublin

I've heard cases where people go to the airport one day late for post-midnight departures, specifically SFO/LAX Asia-bound, GUM Japan/Korea-bound, etc.

We used to have a secretary who was a real whizz at booking people from the wrong airport, and other blunders. Some of them got caught before departure, but others didn't. In the end we had to take her off flight bookings.

One where the request was a day trip from London to Edinburgh was booked in the reverse direction, down from Edinburgh in the morning and back there in the evening.

Booked London to Dublin when the request was to go to Belfast - that didn't get noticed until the chap turned up at Heathrow; the day was lost.

Two people travelling to Edinburgh on Easyjet, one from Luton, one from Stansted. Of course she got the names the wrong way round, that one took for ever to sort out.

In passing, web-generated documents are far less clear about the itinerary than paper tickets used to be; the detail is buried in a mass of terms and conditions. I wonder why it cannot be highlighted better at the top.

I used to work for a company that had a dedicated travel clerk who always got this sort of thing wrong. The company also refused to send itineraries - you just had to go to the airport and collect tickets with the six letter code. You couldn't verify anything in advance.

There was one time, I remember, and I had been on leave all week and had a meeting in Dublin on the Friday. I lived in London at the time. I asked for the last EI flight from LCY-DUB on the Thursday night. Got to LCY and they told me that I was booked for the next day. The flight was full. I got transferred onto the last flight out of LHR and got in a taxi for the Heathrow Express in Paddington. Unfortunately, we got caught in traffic, so it was obvious I wouldn't make the flight. I decided to book into a hotel at Heathrow and get the red-eye. I diverted the taxi to the hotel. After paying the taximan over £100 I got into the hotel and saw a departures board showing that the flight hadn't left. Found a taxi outside the hotel leaving passengers off - who paid oh so slowly - and got into Terminal 1. The terminal was deserted, but I found someone on the EI desk. I begged them to let me check in, and they said yes, but it was at my own risk if I missed the flight. Got through a deserted security, and sprinted with luggage all the way to Gate 86 (or thereabouts) - no mean feat. I just made the flight, was absolutely wrecked from the running and arrived at DUB. At that point, I hardly cared that my car was cancelled and I'd missed my Eddie Rocket's burger.

This girl also used to book in the wrong direction, from the wrong airports, failed to get cars booked, etc. I remember one godlike manager, on learning that his car home hadn't been booked, seething: "well, I know we're supposed to work in a no blame culture, but..." He then hijacked my car

Never the wrong airport (yet), but I once got into the wrong car.

It was later at night at EWR, and the driver must not have heard me when I asked "Are you ABC Car Service?, because he replied yes, took my bags, and we were off.

I should have suspected something when he had the wrong address, and I had to direct him to right highway to my town. Although I was not amused at the time, it actually was funny how the mistake was discovered.

The driver's cell phone rings, and here is conversation, as I could hear from his end.

"Hello?"
"What do you mean, I picked him up already, he's right here."
"Ok, Hold on"
(to me) "Are you Mr Jones?"
(me)"No I am JohnneeO."
(back to the phone) "Uh, I got the wrong guy, tell Mr. Jones I'll go back to the airport and get him."

So now we need to go back to the terminal, where my car was still waiting for me, and so was the guy whose car I took. We switched cars, I got home 30 minutes later, and now its funny to look back on, but man I was upset that night.

A UA agent based in DCA told me once that there are many people who mistake DCA for IAD and vice versa. She placed the blame on cab drivers and hotel porters who don't ask for clarification from out of town pax who signal "airport" as their destination.

I've almost gone to pick someone UP at the wrong airport. My friend told me he was flying into O'Hare. On the day of the trip, I asked him which airline. The answer? Southwest. No, you're not taking Southwest to O'Hare, and I'm very glad I asked.