With the number of people flying, this is bound to happen every once in a while, though it still makes for quite a story.
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This reminds me years ago of the story about a teenager flying Air New Zealand from LHR to LAX. He was then supposed to connect on a domestic flight to OAK.
However when the aircraft landed in LAX, the announcement said that all passengers continuing on to Aukland should remain on board. The teenager thought they were saying Oakland remained on the flight. He didn't realize he was headed to New Zealand until 3 hours into the flight, after he couldn't figure out why an hour flight was taking so long.
She's probably not the type to know about this, but would she also get the miles awarded for the SEA round trip at a minimum?
I suppose it also wasn't her fault she ignored the in-flight announcement they were going to Seattle before pushback?
Sounds like a Full House episode where Stephanie and Michelle hop on a plane from SFO to OAK. They thought they were going to OAK, but went to AKL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS_aZbtDeoQ
@Brad C. We are always victims! I’m sure the passengers on the flight looked like what she was expecting. Or maybe she has a lot of diversity and inclusion training, so she doesn’t know the difference
It would be her fault but if her flight was anything like recent flights I've been on, it's probably easier to find people who ignore the announcements than people who don't.
This happened to me a few years back. Flew ADD-LBV instead of ADD-NBO. The ET crew was very apologetic and def did not try to blame me for the error though. My family has never let me forget as I am the designated Avgeek in the family 😀
I watched the TikTok videos of this narcissist.
She speaks Spanish, boarded a plane in her home, Spanish-speaking country, on an airline with Spanish-speaking crew.
She can't blame language issues.
Went on a bit of an Avgeek jaunt and flew BOS-ORD-IAH-DME-SIN-BOM-ADD mostly to qualify for *G on A3. The last leg was ADD-NBO but as I had been awake all night at BOM due overnight delay at the airport, I was very tired from the whole journey etc. ADD has a lot of bus gates next to each other so I basically got on the wrong bus and also had someone in my seat with same seat number but the plane was maybe 30% LF so just sat in the row behind which was entirely empty. I woke up on approach to the captain announcing descent into LBV which is when it hit me. FA couldnt believe it had happened. Upon arrival, I was almost made to go through immigration as there is no connections pathway at LBV but they were doing a turn around and convinced the staff to just let me into the waiting area. Flew with the same crew back to ADD where they plied me with wine and apologized profusely and then NBO that night. All in all, a 13 hour delay.
Many years ago but post 9-11 my DH went on a business trip. After getting through TSA he remembered he had a box cutter with him. He threw it in the trash before departure.
He gets to his destination and tells the gate agent that he needs a bordering pass for his next leg. She asked him how he got there. He said on the flight that just arrived from our home airport. He was not on the flight manifest for the flight.
The corporate travel agent had made an itinerary with a mid day departure from the second city and and early evening departure from from the home airport.
DH had read the itinerary as an early morning flight not an early evening departure and hadn’t noticed the problem.
Mistakes happen
She’s not blaming language. You don’t know how disfunctional this volaris airline is.
I remember boarding once a LH flight to Berlin on a remote stand. Two buses brought us there. After the aircraft door was closed, the crew welcomed us on the flight to Cologne. Immediately, about half of the passengers, including me, shouted "Berlin", because we thought the announcement was wrong. However, our bus brought us to the wrong plane. During boarding, there was a lot of arguments about seat assignments, but the crew didn't realize we were on the wrong plane.
Nothing to do (for once...) with Mexico, it happened to me when BA (then called BEA, British European Airways) flew mw from LHR to DUS instead of Paris. Computers didn't exist, Boarding passes were hand-written and eyes-read, plane was a Comet 4. On arrival I complained and demanded to be flown to Paris in First Class (my first ever flight in F), they obliged and sent me home on an Air France Caravelle. Flights, by the way, were much faster than nowadays as they did not add padding to the schedules. LHR-Paris (Le Bourget) was scheduled as 50 mnts vs 1hr20 nowadays. You got a real meal in Y and caviar (not always) in F. I actually miss those times (50+ years ago).
I was on an American Airlines flight in December 2021 DFW-SEA and the lady behind me got on the wrong plane. She meant to fly to Boston. This was only determined when two people were sharing the same seat assignment.
One time I was in Austin about to board a Southwest flight. One person scanned their boarding pass and the gate agent said “Sir, this is for American Airlines!” Clearly some people don’t fully pay attention to their flight
I ran down the jetway in Boston once with Virgin America and it was a EWR flight. I was going to LAX. I was a few steps passed the GA who asked “Newark?” No.
It could happen. Home Alone never would have happened today with all the social media and computers. Also today they would realize one passenger is missing. Did they even check in ? I have alot of questions about that movie.
Nice story. In the 1980s computers weren’t streamlined. I’m 1990s there was Sabre ; but my mom and her friends could block a seat for me in first class on twa and upgrade me as a non rev. The caviar was flowing back then .
Agree I would be requesting the points for both flights and additional compensation but she does not seem like the type to be involved in this way.
A few years back, I was aboard a plane to PWM (Portland, ME) and an announcement was made as boarding was completed—“Just to confirm, this is a flight to Portland, MAINE, not Portland, OREGON. I repeated, this flight is going to MAINE, not OREGON.”
TWO separate travelers got up and left the plane after that announcement. I cannot recall if the PWM and PDX flights were at a adjacent gates, but they must have at least had similar departure times.
It’s very apparent most of you haven’t flown Volaris. Hundreds of memes online of their announcements being made in a manner that’s hard to decipher even for native Spanish speakers
It does not surprise me at all, flying volaría it’s a caos! This airline is very on organized!
As a retired Supervisor of an airline. The airline will be heavily fine. The gate agent and flight attendant will or probably losted their job, a full investigation will happen.
Considering it's the gate agent's job to check everyone's boarding pass to ensure that everyone boarding the flight is supposed to be on that flight, this is entirely Volaris' fault. Two staff members looked at the boarding pass and completely missed the destination, flight arrival time and flight number. At least they didn't leave her to fend for herself at Immigration (which is the least they could have done). I'm glad she finally reached home.