The Great Mix-up

S.M.Singru

On July 20^th, one newspaper in U.K. reported that one couple flew to El Salvador by mistake instead of their intended destination Salvador in Brazil. While the readers were still smirking on this case of mistaken destination, the Daily Telegraph of London has reported an equally amazing mix-up. Two teenagers from Kent, U.K. Raeoul Sebastian and Emma Nunn paid £740/- each to travel to Sydney, Australia. The tickets were booked on the Internet. They actually ended up reaching Sydney in Canada. What is baffling is that for reaching the Canadian Sydney, they had to change the plane at Halifax, Nova Scotia and get into a 25-seater propeller driven plane for Sydney, Canada, which should have made them wiser. It was only when they landed at the small town Sydney with a population of 25,000 that they realised their blunder. Commentators say this speaks volumes about the extent of care, which airlines give to their passengers and a lot about the state of flight security in international travel. So far, we had any number of suitcases being miscarried to wrong destinations by international airlines. Now they want to add passengers to their list of achievements.