Ever go to the wrong airport?
 

I've just been traveling and traveling, living in hotels the past month.

About Wednesday, I realized I needed a room at the airport on Friday night so I could get up and take my BA flight to AMS Saturday (today). LHR Hilton.

I couldn't check into the kiosk and the queues were the worst I've ever seen. They snaked through tents outside and I have no status -- even the Club and First queues were tremendous, so it wouldn't have helped too much.

So I called my wife, cause the kiosk asked for a flight number. And even though it was 2AM, she looked on my computer and found the reservation. 9:30AM....from LGW.

Oh. My. God.

The rebooking queue was about 3 hours long (floods in England and 10 percent of yesterday's flights canceled) so I decided to swallow my pride and buy a new ticket on NW/KLM, where I am PLT.

$600.

On Expedia, my wife found a Lufthansa flight for $174. Better. In the end, I swallow my pride and tapped my endless supply of NW miles for an award ticket. Taxes cost me about $80.

So, I stayed calm, made some phone calls, and am out only about 8 hours and $80. I went back to the Hilton and had breakfast and started reading the new Harry Potter book.

Could be worse.

Anyone else do this -- go to the wrong airport? I can guarantee I'll be more careful in the future.

Never done it.

Woken up at the middle of the night and wondered where I am? Quite a few times!

I was staying on Paradise Island once and on the way to the airport (Nassau) some others on the bus mentioned it was taking a long time to get there. Fortunately the driver heard this and stopped asking them which airport and they replied the one on Paradise Island. I didn't know there was an alternate airport so it could have easily been me going in the wrong direction.

Done it once. Who knew Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia has two airports? BKI is the one that pops up when you google it. There's another one, which we ended up at. Luckily, we left early for the trip to the airport, and just hopped a cab to BKI.

I'm more afraid of ending up in the wrong city, since it's a different city every week for me.

I get the feeling every time I make the trek to Heathrow.

Never done it as well.

I get the same feeling about LHR like you even though I don't reside in London but make frequent trips there.

A couple of weeks ago while walking in CMH (Columbus, Ohio) I heard a lady on her cell phone say "I was supposed to be in Columbus, Georgia, and you all booked me to Columbus, Ohio!"

Never gone to the wrong airport but went to the wrong counter last week. I went to the UA Kiosk and it gave me some non-sense flight numbers. Then I realized I was supposed to be on AA for that segment.

I showed up at the wrong Barcelona train station during my Spain trip. Went to Este Station where I arrived into Barcelona from Granada, couldn't find my train. The desk person said, "you are supposed to be at Franco station" and I thought, "What?! there's two stations in Barcelona?" Hopped on a taxi and rushed over. I'm glad I got to the train station early enough to compensate for that huge near mistake (Barcelona to Paris overnight sleeper not cheap).

When I was working in New York, I'd sometimes fly into LGA, other times EWR. One time, I thought I was flying from LGA, went to the airport only to find out that I was flying from EWR. Since the flight was uber-delayed (sidebar - do flights to Chicago from NYC ever leave on time??) I just hopped in a cab and went over there. En route to the airport, my late flight became a canceled flight! I read my BPs a lot more carefully after that event... :)

As an undergrad living in Seville, Spain, I hopped a flight during Christmas Break (this is important) from SVQ to the Canary Islands. I got off at Gran Canaria, not realizing I should have waited to deplane in Tenerife. After waiting for two hours and no luggage, I checked with a CSR who helped me try and locate my baggage, then telling me I had landed on the wrong island. I booked a puddle-jumper to Tenerife for around $80, then was relieved to finally set down where I was supposed to go.

Unfortunately, Tenerife has two airports, and I landed at Tenerife North (TFN). I ran into the same issue in that my original flight landed at Tenerife South. Being a Christmas Holiday, almost all public transport was unavailable, so I was stuck with a $80 taxi bill to get my luggage at TFS. The driver was nice enough to help me find a cheap place to stay, but after check in, I only had $9 for eight days. I was able to survive on bread and water during that break, spending my days and evenings on the beach.

I did have an awesome, awesome tan.

:D

I showed up at SFO once when my flight was out of SJC. Didn't turn out to be a problem - they rebooked me and didn't even charge me for it. I suppose showing up at a UA hub instead of the non-hub is quite a bit better than the other way around - there were lots of options for me at SFO.

I've never gone to the wrong airport, but I have also woken up in the middle of the night, not knowing which town I was in!

Never the wrong airport but I can report the same waking up not knowing where I am as others ...and now that includes at home too!

But I am mostly famous for showing up at the airport on the WRONG DAY! either by looking at the arrival date - i mostly travel internationally- or because i am a ding-a-ling. Geez. First time agent said Sir your flight left yesterday - and I laughed at what I thought was a bad joke. She was right tho! Next two times weren't as funny....................................