I've been on flights to Dulles with someone expecting to go to BWI and doing an OMG how do I get there. The flights boarded right next to each other after delays, irreg ops and other fun. It happens, but he knew he'd likely be handling his own travel plans to get to Baltimore that evening.

Uh, I routinely check stuff ORD-ASP.

They have paper tickets called FIMs that are used for a variety of things and reroute to original destination is one of them. The agents create a new reservation without electronic tickets. We had this happen several times when I was in ROA. The pax would say that they believe that ROA was the name of the airport in ORF.

Sigh. Only about 5 hours' driving time distance between those two, too. :D

I have seen pax (and even FAs a couple of times) get mixed up between, say, CRW and CHS (both boarding UX flights from the old G gates at IAD at the time). Those two I understand. I can even understand MRY vs. MYR, or BLF vs. BFL (although neither of those pairs is going to be served from the same airport!)

But ORF and ROA?

Sigh.

You tell 'em, mre. Geeze, to think some people think COS is a pohdunk airport. :rolleyes:

It really is, though. Maybe not some air strip like those of a remote Fijian island, but it's pretty bare-bones.

yup on the head count but if you mis-count.....it does happen-i've been on both mainline and ux where for whatever reason, they just couldn't get the count right and actually walked the aisle with the manifest and checked off each pax

yes as to the "reminder announcement" but you'd be surprised how many pax simply don't hear/listen to it or have fallen asleep before push back. it's a little pet peeve of mine to actually listen to the announcements as you never know what will be said-complete with an f/a making the "welcome to fight xxx to abc" announcment more than once but the flight is actually "yyy going to xyz" and only a few pax catch the mistake

Quite true, COS is very bare bones. It lacks amenities found at other airports:

- Runways that shut down in fog.
- Non-working, free Wi-Fi.
- Rental car buses to "whisk" you to rental car lots miles away
- Surly parking lot shuttle drivers who insist on picking you up and dropping you off at only the designated shuttle stops, and snarl at you when you fail to leave a tip.
- Curfews
- Filthy restrooms
- Rats and mice in the terminal (the nearest vermin are herds of antelope)

Just in case any FTers have reasons to go to southern CO, and were thinking of flying into COS instead of DEN. :rolleyes:

Headed to the wrong destination
 

Been flying a lot for the last 15 years and last Thursday flying from SFO to ORD on the red eye I actually boarded the wrong plane. Printed by boarding pass and headed to the gate (84) printed on the card and jumped into the red carpet line and headed to my seat in FC. Plane was a 767 - same equipment used for the flight to ORD. It was not noticed until someone came to my seat and stated I was in the wrong seat.

How does the gate agent take my boarding pass and allow me on? This flight was headed to Hawaii and was running 6 hours late. When I got off the plane the gate agent made a rude comment and I headed to gate 81 and made it to ORD.

Anyone else out there ever have a similar situation?

TAGANDRELEASE3 - headed somewhere that might not be my intended destination....

At least you would have ended up in a beautiful place!!!

If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium...

Only in my nightmares have I had this happen to me. But giving the droning, mind-crushing sameness of business travel, I can certainly understand it happening!


Hope you got home OK, although landing in HI wouldn't have been too awful an experience!

Since UA should accept at least some of the blame in letting you get on the wrong plane, wouldn't they be obligated to provide one week's accommodations and an F ticket back? ;)

I would imagine if the thing was 6 hours late then they might have been on the plane at one point and had to deplane. When that happens I've noticed the GAs get pretty lackadaisical when it comes to reboarding. They just make sure you have a boarding pass and you're good to go.

It's really something UA should look into from a security perspective.

Yep: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ong-plane.html

My one ooopss was UX where multiple flights were being serviced from a single gate.

Last month was on a mainline flight when a late boarding passenger asked my seatmate "are you sure you are in the right seat?" Turned out the late boarding passenger was on the wrong plane.

My impression is this is not a rare occurrence. But I also thought the gate readers would flag a problem :confused: