Missed Abuja by just a little!
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This has happened multiple times elsewhere, including on mainstream European routes. It always happens with wet-leased subcharters, and the crew always know where they are going and have the right fuel, the flight plan has been filed for there, but it's wrong for where the passengers have been loaded for. Two lots of dispatching, one by the operating carrier and one by the commercial airline they are doing the work for. It especially seems to occur where the crew have been told they are to do two consecutive round trips to the same place, but it's actually one to there, then a second elsewhere. Wet leased from an overseas operator normally means the flight crew do not make PA announcements, these being done by local cabin staff. Looks amusing but not an issue. It's also generally characterised by journalists reporting it completely wrong, making descriptions up, etc.
In the days of the November stands at Heathrow (coaching), I recall hearing an account of Leeds passengers boarded on the Teesside aircraft. I would have thought that the head count would have exposed the error, but apparently, the cabin crew P.A. did.
In the style of coaches at a 1950s seaside resort, it was always wise to yell up the stairs prior to boarding "Is this the Teesside?".
In the style of coaches at a 1950s seaside resort, it was always wise to yell up the stairs prior to boarding "Is this the Teesside?".
it was always wise to yell up the stairs prior to boarding "Is this the Teesside?"
BA did it as well.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/artic...ntl/index.html
As did Northwest Airlines.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/arc...1&slug=2144546
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/artic...ntl/index.html
As did Northwest Airlines.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/arc...1&slug=2144546
Mate got airborne on a Daventry departure dispatched by shuttle and realised they didn’t know where they were going (we carried plogs for Glasgow and Edinburgh at that time although Belfast and Manchester were later added) a quick call on box 3 sorted the problem.
I was once boarded onto a Zagreb flight and it was only when I asked a crew member why we had a delay that I discovered that I wasn’t on the Zurich BA flight; fortunately the Zurich flight was delayed.
I was once boarded onto a Zagreb flight and it was only when I asked a crew member why we had a delay that I discovered that I wasn’t on the Zurich BA flight; fortunately the Zurich flight was delayed.
Unfortunately ops use ICAO codes. But you could be on the right lines. Abuja (ABV) is ICAO code DNAA, while Asaba (ABB) is DNAS. And A and S are adjacent on a western keyboard. Fly2Sky, the actual operator, is however based in Sofia, Bulgaria, where Cyrillic keyboards are standard, so further potential for a confusion of two adjacent keys in a non-native language.
BA did it as well.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/artic...ntl/index.html
As did Northwest Airlines.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/arc...1&slug=2144546
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/artic...ntl/index.html
As did Northwest Airlines.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/arc...1&slug=2144546
