Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
I can think of two U.K. airports where passengers have to walk to the aircraft, so it’s quite possible that a mix up could occur. If Doncaster opens again it will be three.
Exactly. A few years back, I was flying from Jakarta to Singapore on Air Asia. We had to walk a short distance from the terminal to the aircraft, and they were boarding two Air Asia aircraft at the same time (there were signs indicating which aircraft was going where).
After boarding, the flight attendants started walking the aisles with those little hand-held counter devices, counting how many were on-board - I knew something was up when they did that multiple times. Then an announcement 'this is flight xxxx to Singapore, please ensure Singapore is your destination (repeated in both English and Indonesian). Finally, they started walking down the aisle checking boarding passes until they finally located the passenger that was on the wrong flight...
About a half hour delay because someone didn't look at the sign to see which aircraft they needed to board.