cnn.com — A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.
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martalliDec 29, 2006
This is why you should date the girl next door.
jugalatorDec 29, 2006
What does that have to do with anything?If someone asked him where Australia, or even Sydney was, I'm pretty sure he'd be able to point it out...Especially since he had been there before.Misspelling and not knowing geography are quite different things.But I think he should have missed some clues on the airport though... :-p
sndp6391Dec 29, 2006
Learn English....what are you 'Sinking'?
florrie7Dec 29, 2006
no no. a mistake of this magnitude requires all caps:DOH!!!
sumorickyDec 29, 2006
Ladies and gentlemen: The next generation of German precision
nicepantsDec 29, 2006
Too bad his parents paid for the real ticket. Stupidity should be more painful.
acefearlessDec 29, 2006
It is surprising how easy this is to do. This fall my wife and I were planing a trip to Europe and found tickets to London UK. But then when you decide to purchase the tickets the site, I believe it was travelocity but don't quote me on that, will give you other options that might be a better deal. But what it doesn't tell you is some of those "options" are for an entirely different city of the same name. We actually ended up buying tickets to London CANADA the first time. Although It was pretty easy to determine that they were to the wrong destination as the flight time was about half that it should be among other things. But if I didn't double check my wife's late night bate-and-switch purchase I would have spent a couple weeks getting to know Canada instead of London, UK and Italy.
digg0diggDec 30, 2006
the article, loosely translated by Google, says it was the first time he ever flew . .<a class="user" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/leser-reporter/artikel-aktuell/12/29/reise-tollpatsch/MAINreise-tollpatsch.html">http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/leser-reporter/artikel-aktuell/12/29/reise-tollpatsch/MAINreise-tollpatsch.html</a>
rajulkabirDec 30, 2006
"don't they show city+country on the ticket?"I just flipped through a stack of old tickets, none of them have the country listed.Also, none of the flight itineraries or e-ticket confirmations I have here mention the countries either, but I am open to the possibility that some agencies' might.