What the Heck?! Thread (Closed)

[AssassinsMace]

So who was behind the Sony hack?

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[MwRYum]

Here's a funny inncident with the airlines. Actually , with the woman aged 34, I was wondering whether the boyfriend was younger or older.

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Woman flies to Hong Kong on wrong ticket

Consider this: if you got your name spelling screwed up during reservation, you'd have tons of problem at check-in; then there's the e-ticket; and they've to see your travel documents to check you in, so how could the ground crew actually make all those mistakes and still issue the boarding pass? Where are all the failsafe?

And that woman, she's just 34, not 64, how could she make that blunder - line-up at the wrong airline for the wrong flight? Sure, HK Airline use "HX" and Cathay Pacific use "CX", but such mistake? To be honest, I'm 38 and my mom's 66 this year, and neither of us would make those stupid mistake on our part - but again, we used to book our own flights.

So bro, this ain't What The Heck, it's right in the WTF category.

 

[solarz]

Consider this: if you got your name spelling screwed up during reservation, you'd have tons of problem at check-in; then there's the e-ticket; and they've to see your travel documents to check you in, so how could the ground crew actually make all those mistakes and still issue the boarding pass? Where are all the failsafe?

And that woman, she's just 34, not 64, how could she make that blunder - line-up at the wrong airline for the wrong flight? Sure, HK Airline use "HX" and Cathay Pacific use "CX", but such mistake? To be honest, I'm 38 and my mom's 66 this year, and neither of us would make those stupid mistake on our part - but again, we used to book our own flights.

So bro, this ain't What The Heck, it's right in the WTF category.

Ehhh, don't be so hard on her. I don't think she bought the ticket herself so she probably wasn't paying much attention.

These things happen. Once I almost missed a flight because I was chatting with a friend. They changed the boarding gate, and because we were talking, neither of us heard the announcers calling our names.

 

[AssassinsMace]

Years ago there was a woman I believe was at LAX who wanted a flight to Oakland, California. That's an hour flight. The ticket counter gave her a flight to Auckland, New Zealand by mistake. It was already too late before she realized she was on the wrong flight and had to take a big detour.

 

[solarz]

Years ago there was a woman I believe was at LAX who wanted a flight to Oakland, California. That's an hour flight. The ticket counter gave her a flight to Auckland, New Zealand by mistake. It was already too late before she realized she was on the wrong flight and had to take a big detour.

LOL, I would have just enjoyed the impromptu vacation!

 

[B.I.B.]

Years ago there was a woman I believe was at LAX who wanted a flight to Oakland, California. That's an hour flight. The ticket counter gave her a flight to Auckland, New Zealand by mistake. It was already too late before she realized she was on the wrong flight and had to take a big detour.

How did she get past immigration and passport control,that alone should have made the passenger aware something was wrong.

 

[AssassinsMace]

How did she get past immigration and passport control,that alone should have made the passenger aware something was wrong.

That's a good question.

Here's the story. My mistake it was a guy. I thought I remembered it was a woman. But then I don't think it was as far back as 1985. Might explain how he got on an international flight since he just came back from Europe. I seem to recall hearing something similar happening in the past few years but didn't get any details.

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[plawolf]

You go through immigration at arrival.

Security should not have allowed anyone into the international departures area on a domestic ticket, and she should never have been allowed to board the wrong flight.

But can't really blame immigration for that.

Don't know if NZ have visa free arrangements with the US, so she might have been stopped at NZ immigration, or not if there was a visa free travel arrangement. But at that point her plane ticket would have stopped being relevant, so they would never have pulled her up on having the wrong ticket.

 

[B.I.B.]

You go through immigration at arrival.

Security should not have allowed anyone into the international departures area on a domestic ticket, and she should never have been allowed to board the wrong flight.

But can't really blame immigration for that.

Don't know if NZ have visa free arrangements with the US, so she might have been stopped at NZ immigration, or not if there was a visa free travel arrangement. But at that point her plane ticket would have stopped being relevant, so they would never have pulled her up on having the wrong ticket.

This happened way back in 85 and visas would have been required and we still fill out country departure cards which are handed in at passport control on the way out.

 

[SteelBird]

I think this was a transit case, so the guy might had not passed through the immigration. However, they mixed domestic flights and international flights together. This is really a bad thing.