My gut reaction is that this guy is an idiot.
Just like anything else you do in life, double check everything and don’t trust anyone else to do the right thing.
I know of a guy that booked himself an Amtrak ticket to Las Vegas. Problem is that Amtrak serves Las Vegas, New Mexico, not Las Vegas, Nevada.
The airline charged him $5000 for two return tickets England-Spain and he didn’t say anything?
Even with first class, that’s obviously too much for a short flight.
If I were the judge, that lawsuit would be dismissed so fast his head would spin. If he didn’t check his tickets, too bad, his problem.
Yeah I in 1983 ended up in Grenada as well(Operation Urgent Fury) in USS Independence CV-62.
Partner? If he's gay, that makes his victimhood score jump much higher.
uhhh....besides the different spellings, didn’t he notice how long it was taking to get there? What an idiot.
All things considered, there are worse places he could have ended up.
Grenada, is from little I’ve heard and seen, a beautiful Caribbean island.
Spelling ping!
I hope you receive this post with the humor I am trying to send with it.
It just fit our previous conversation too well not to share.
Cheers!
You say “Grenada”, I say “Grenada”, yada, yada, yada.
You say Grenada, I say Granada....
This guy’s obviously an idiot. Now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to go outside and wash my Hyundai Accord so it’s all shiny for my date with actress Evan Longoria.
The booking agent made the mistake, so ...
With a couple of decades in the travel business under my belt, I can say this has happened since there were travel agents, but it REALLY came to the fore with the internet, and self-booking.
The fun ones are Columbus, Oh/Ga/Ms, (Eastern once served ALL THREE, that was a gas.), and Lafayette, In/La.
In the 90’s, the Lafayette, In (LAF) airport was shutting down for the Blizzard of The Century. I had cleared our last flight, and was the last one out of the building, and didn’t expect to be back for a couple of days.
I noticed a woman city out front, obviously shivering, and watching the now heavy snowfall. I asked her if I could help, and she said she was waiting for a ride.
As I walked away, she asked, “I am from Nigeria, I have never seen this. Does it often snow in Louisiana??” She was obviously supposed to be in Lafayette LOUISIANA (LFT), and not in Lafayette INDIANA (LAF).
My first thought was, “Oh CRAP, I’m not getting home before they close the roads, and the wife is going to kill me.” uckily, I managed to get her in to the University’s Hotel, where she was stuck for the next three days.
Even in small Lafayette, we saw this once a week or so, sometimes even with groups. A buddy that worked in Columbus for severa years said it was a DAILY occurrence for them, even when travel agents ruled the day.
That the guy can’t speil tells me he’s an idiot.
The first time I went Paris I realized something was wrong.
Them people wuz wearing cowboy boots and strangely the place looked like a Matt Dillon movie
You say Grenada, and I say Granada......
BERLIN (AFP) - A German apprentice insurance salesman who wanted to visit his girlfriend in Australia ended up in smalltown America after buying a ticket on the Internet for Sidney in the US state of Montana.Bild newspaper said 21-year-old Tobias Gutt's detour was the result of a spelling mistake as he had failed to notice that the Australian harbour city is in fact called Sydney.
The mixup with 'y' and 'i' meant a difference of two continents, 13,000 kilometres (8,000 miles) and around 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in temperature between his intended destination and where he actually touched down.
1985: Oakland, He Said, but He Went to Auckland Instead
An Oakland man mistook a flight to "Auckland" for one to his hometown and added 12,000 miles to his journey from a holiday in West Germany, customs officials said Tuesday.Michael Lewis, 22, was at Los Angeles International Airport intending to fly to the Bay area city, 400 miles north, when Air New Zealand officials allowed him to board an aircraft bound for Auckland.
Not until Tahiti was mentioned during an in-flight announcement did Lewis realize his predicament.
-PJ
hello, fadda.
Here I am in
camp Grenada!
The Florida one IS named for the Russian one by an immigrant son from the original, Peter Demens (Dementyev), who as a budding railroad tycoon, cofounded the Florida on in 1888. Of course, during the Soviet era when the original was named for a murdering terrorist, there was no such confusion!