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Airline turns around after discovering wrong passenger on board
News from WNDU:
Posted: 06/01/2006 11:30 pm
Last Updated: 06/01/2006 11:42 pm
South Bend, IN - A United Express flight from Chicago to South Bend turned around, when the airline discovered it was carrying the wrong child.
The 14-year-old Goshen boy, who was supposed to be on the flight, was left behind asleep at O’Hare.
Instead, the flight took off with a 10-year-old boy who was supposed to be flying to Taiwan, and who didn’t speak English.
The airline called the mistake rare and is investigating how it happened.
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TED shafted me two spring breaks ago in Phoenix. Bound for Tulsa, with a connection in Denver, I thought it would be simple. Arriving at SkyHarbor 2 hours before my flight I was approached by a customer service worker for the airline who delivered the displeasing news that the airbus (coming from Denver) needed a part put on the plane and that they did not have it in stock. As a pilot, I understand that these things happen and that I could not get out of PHX that night. I then, without asking for any compensation, went home. I returned the next day (as I was told to do by TED) for the same flight different day. As I was standing back in line to check in, the same guy was walking through the line and was telling people the same story (that they could not get on the plane tonight). When he got to me, I simply retained patience and said that I am leaving tonight on the plane and for him to do whatever neccesary to get me on it. After waiting 1.5 hours to get on the plane, I finally did. The only cool thing about was that I was sitting next to the former LA Lakers B-ball player Michael Cooper (we shared a brief, but thorough conversation about the mutual disgust for TED Airlines). Arriving in Denver, the connection I was to make to Tulsa simply never existed. I was amazed at the inefficiency of TED. They said that the flight was not scheduled until the following morning. I showed them the ticket that I had to go to Tulsa and they said that there was a mistake on the ticket and that the 9p.m. really should have said 9a.m. Nothing was shocking after this and everything sucked hard. I was laughing so wildly at the mess I had created by purchasing a ticket with TED. I then asked if they could possibly get me somewhere close to Tulsa where I could possibly get home. Oklahoma City was as close as they could get me. I took it and had a friend drive 2 hours to pick me up at midnight. They offered no hotel options in Denver (it was as if I were going to have to sleep on the floor at the airport or something). By far the biggest joke of an airline I have ever encountered. I study airlines and their trends because I want to fly for them someday. I thought about holding a grudge toward United for the whole ordeal, but focused my anger at its subsidiary instead. After returning home in one piece and without any substantial delays, I wrote TED a letter of rebuttle. Their answer was a $150 voucher for (you guessed it) TED Airlines! Never again! I wrote them a reply letter and simply included the voucher in the envelope. I told them that they needed it worse than I. TED sucks!