I got on the wrong flight ages ago. It was AMS or BRU to LGW – can’t remember exactly – but there was a BMI (or whatever they used to be called) and BA flight going within 20 mins of each other from adjacent gates. I was checked in on the BA flight, didn’t read the gate, and was allowed to board and get seated on the BMI flight.
No one noticed until the BMI passenger with the same seat as me boarded and accused me of being in his seat. I indignantly protested until we realised my boarding pass was blue and his boarding pass was red – at which point a very flustered cabin crew member told me I was on the wrong flight and had to get off the plane ASAP!
The next thing I was barrelling up the aisle the wrong way, knocking boarding passengers out of the way, to get off the plane and over to the other gate to get on the BA flight. I just made it! At least they found me before we took off...
