Got my butt out of bed at 6am to make the 8:10 from MCO to DFW. Gate agent checks me in, hmmm you're not on this flight sir...but I have my receipt right here, see it says 8:10......doooh! 8:10 PM. Needless to say every MCO DFW flight is oversold by at least 15 people unil late this afternoon.

Am I the only one to have made this *rookie* mistake

Not only a rookie mistake! I showed up at 5:15 pm for a 5:15 am flight from Honolulu to Kona. Managed to just barely make it on the last flight of the day on standby, but I was lucky.

Maybe a 24 hour clock system would prevent that from happening. I'm glad that you both made your flights, though.

I have a really funny story . . .

Two of my friends from when I was studying in London decided to take Easyjet to Dublin for a weekend (mistake #1 in my opinion). They got all the way to Stanstead only to realize that their flight was for the next week! So they go home.

Next weekend, they get back to Stanstead in the evening in time to make their 7:00 flight to Dublin. Only problem is that their fligth left at 7:00 AM, not PM! Dejected, they returned home to London, never to attempt another journey to Dublin.

Scary to think both are now practicing attornies!!!

I haven't done the "oops wrong time of day" mistake, however I have done the "oops, wrong airport" mistake.

My girlfriend (ex now) and I decided to hop a flight to LAS and spend the weekend rolling the dice. Well, after booking the flight, packing and calling a cab. We arrived at Chicago's Midway Airport. Upon walking up to the ticket counter and trying to check in, the agent told us that we were leaving out of Chicago's O'Hare Airport.

OH NO!!!!

We quickly jumped in a cab and hotfooted it over to ORD. With 20 minutes to spare, we made the flight.

It was a $95 cab ride.

I've done the wrong day one a couple of times (booked the ticket for Sunday night by accident). I've also gotten ready in the morning for my evening flight and realized that I had completely forgotten to buy a ticket....

Fortunately it was still only 10am and only MDW-MSP where walkups on are relatively cheap, or else I'd have been out a bunch of miles!

Haven't made the time mistake yet. Just wondering if anyone has shown up on the wrong date and month due to date/month being transposed. e.g., a flight on 01/03 which could mean a flight on 3 January or 1 March depending on what system you're used to.

This is the #1 reason I call 1K desk, to verify my flights (along with requesting seats/upgrades).

It's helped me catch quite a few potential "OOPSIES"...

yep, i should have know better when i checked my flight and it was an MD 80 as opposed to 757...but..i thought..hey....AA is making some changes so maybe they changed the aircraft...again....my bad

A few months ago I was in BCN and in preparation for my departure the following morning a group of us went out, drank, caroused, had long drunken goodbyes, and went back to the hotel about 3AM where I decided to stay awake watching TV until leaving for my 7:35 flight at 5:30.

I fell asleep, woke up at 6:15, and ran unshowered from the Calderon to a taxi. I told the driver I'd give him an extra EUR20 if he got me there before 6:45. We made it about 6:50, and I ran to the Air Europa F line to check in. Sweating and gasping for air, I realized that I had left my carryon and laptop in the taxi and started to call the hotel to see if they could track him down for me. I got to the front of the line, handed the ticket to the agent, and watched as a group formed to scowl at my ticket, punch lots of keys on a keyboard, and look at me like I was crazy.

After a few minutes, the agent handed my tickets back to me. "Senor, el vuelo esta para manana."

As luck would have it my new best friend the taxi driver was heading into the terminal with my laptop. Back to the Calderon, where I explained to the clerk that I had checked out by mistake. I went up to the pool on the roof, got a couple hours of sleep, and did it all again the next night. This time I stayed awake, though.

-alan in seattle



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Wouldn't that be great, and at the same time some "backward regions" could switch to the metric system. (Everyone on this board should be all for it, as collecting kilometers is faster than collecting miles!!)

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I really like the Calderon... it's been a whole 2 years since I've been in BCN

I hope you tipped the taxi driver extra well. Many of the cab driver's I've been with may not have been so kind. It's always nice to meet courteous people like that.

On the family's first trip to TLV we were flying on CO FLL-EWR and then EWR-TLV on LY. We arrived at FLL on a Sunday, curbside the luggage and procede to the gate to check-in. At the gate we find out that our travel agent issued our CO tickets for the next day, monday. Half of the family made it to EWR on our intended flight, the other half made it on the next flight to EWR and we hauled a** to the LY counter. Thankfully the load to TLV was relatively lite and LY held the plane for a few minutes so we could make the flight. All I can say is "all's well that ends well".

How about this one?

Flight scheduled for TPE-HKG-LAX. Experienced flyer confidently arrives at airport ~70 minutes before departure, knowing he can clear check-in and immigration within 10 minutes and have a good 20 minutes in the lounge before boarding.

Arrive at the airport to find that his flight departed an hour ago, because he arrived at TPE just in time to catch his HKG-LAX flight.

Read the FIRST entry.....