Heading into the big holiday weekend one of my associates was in Charlotte, and was heading home to Daytona Beach. His first flight Friday morning was cancelled, so he rebooked at the airport with assistance from a ticket agent. He got his boarding pass and went to the assigned gate. They start to board and he gets on the plane, sits through that process, and waits for take off. Nothing unusual at this point, but about 40-45 minutes into the flight he says he thought something was off. The sunlight was coming from the right side of the plane. He thought to himself that was odd, it should be on the left side. He looked out of the plane and thought it was odd that he didn't see water. Normally by now he'd along I-95 and see the ocean off to the left. He turned to the guy next to him and asked him where the flight was going to, and the guy said, "Dayton".
The airport code for Dayton is DAY. The code for Daytona Beach is DAB. The ticket agent had put him on the wrong flight. He never looked at the ticket beyond the seating assignment. When he got to the gate he never looked at the board. He just saw he was at the gate on the ticket, and boarded when called. Now, a bunch of us are getting this from a co-worker here in Iowa who talked to our Florida associate, and we are just peppering him with questions at this point. He never once looked at the ticket/board? He never paid attention to the city being called out?
Weird, right? I have met the guy a few times over the years, and honestly, I was not surprised this happened to him.
CSB
The airport code for Dayton is DAY. The code for Daytona Beach is DAB. The ticket agent had put him on the wrong flight. He never looked at the ticket beyond the seating assignment. When he got to the gate he never looked at the board. He just saw he was at the gate on the ticket, and boarded when called. Now, a bunch of us are getting this from a co-worker here in Iowa who talked to our Florida associate, and we are just peppering him with questions at this point. He never once looked at the ticket/board? He never paid attention to the city being called out?
Weird, right? I have met the guy a few times over the years, and honestly, I was not surprised this happened to him.
CSB