Current Events > United Airlines passenger thought she was traveling to Paris, lands in San Fran

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A United Airlines passenger boarded a plane in Newark believing that she was headed to Paris. Hours later, the plane touched down at San Francisco International Airport (SFO).

Lucie Bahetoukilae, a French woman who does not speak English, carried a boarding pass that read, "Newark to Charles de Gaulle," reports ABC 7. She approached the gate listed on the pass, where a flight attendant scanned her ticket before she boarded the plane.

With her niece acting as translator,Bahetoukilae recalled approaching her seat – 22C – only to find it already occupied.Bahetoukilae said the flight attendant came over to look at her boarding pass before assigning her a new seat.

Three thousand miles later,Bahetoukilae disembarked at SFO, where she reportedly waited an additional 11 hours before boarding a flight back to Paris. In total, she claims to have been traveling for 28 hours.

Bahetoukilae said she did not realize that the airline had changed her flight's boarding gate. She told ABC that United did not make a gate announcement in French or notify her by email.

United gaveBahetoukilae a flight voucher and said they were "working with their team in Newark to prevent this from happening again."

The airline has repeatedly made headlines in past weeks, most notably for an incident in which a passenger was dragged from a flight.

"This is not about money," Bahetoukilae's told ABC, "This is about United getting serious with their employees."
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What is this, Home Alone 2? How does that even happen in real life
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The fact that someone can get aboard the wrong flight is quite the potential security risk in itself apart from the unnecessary hassle it caused in this case.
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pretty sure when they scan boarding pass if you are at the wrong flight it won't work

so there is likely more to the story


unless it worked because of a flight change and the gate somehow didn't know it was a flight change
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man, i was planning ot use United for my trip to South Korea next year

but i dont want to end up in Papua New Guinea or something.
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BalanceLost posted...

The fact that someone can get aboard the wrong flight is quite the potential security risk in itself apart from the unnecessary hassle it caused in this case.

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United is turning into the Florida man of airlines
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Scorsese2002 posted...

A United Airlines passenger boarded a plane in Newark believing that she was headed to Paris.

...That's why in-flight real time maps exist. Not to mention, there's no land between here and Europe. How did she not notice that until she landed?
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iron jojo posted...

United is turning into the Florida man of airlines

So true
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And I thought Air Canada was shit.
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*steps off plane*
"sacre bleu!"
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her bad
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Puglia77 posted...

Scorsese2002 posted...

A United Airlines passenger boarded a plane in Newark believing that she was headed to Paris.

...That's why in-flight real time maps exist. Not to mention, there's no land between here and Europe. How did she not notice that until she landed?

Probably was asleep. Could of also been cloudy or dark.
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Puglia77 posted...

Scorsese2002 posted...

A United Airlines passenger boarded a plane in Newark believing that she was headed to Paris.

...That's why in-flight real time maps exist. Not to mention, there's no land between here and Europe. How did she not notice that until she landed?

i mean even if she did notice en route, what the fuck could she have done at that point
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