<story><title>Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught</title><url>https://onemileatatime.com/news/man-creatively-sneaks-onto-delta-flight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeroonetwothree</author><text>Once I accidentally got on the wrong plane, because two flights at adjacent gates were boarding at the same time. Apparently the boarding pass scanner didn&amp;#x27;t even check that the flight matched! It turned out that the person who actually had my seat on that flight was really late and so we didn&amp;#x27;t find out until just before the plane left the game. Fortunately I was able to rush over and make it onto my actual flight. But it would have been awkward if the other passenger hadn&amp;#x27;t made it at all...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lb1lf</author><text>I came within a cat&amp;#x27;s whisker of being flown from Molde, Norway to Oslo rather than to my intended destination of Bergen when I was a teen.&lt;p&gt;Molde Airport is a very small affair, a handful of flights every day, and no such fancy thing as boarding tunnels; rather, you were just passed through at the gate and let onto the apron, where a plane would be waiting.&lt;p&gt;Only on that day, there were TWO planes waiting, one hidden from view behind a hangar - but both were from then national flag carrier Braathens.&lt;p&gt;So, I get out from my gate as the very last passenger, having bought a standby ticket, so no pax to follow, lemmings style, to my plane.&lt;p&gt;Walking over to single plane in view, I board and find my seat on the nearly empty flight, door closes, pre-departure briefing, taxiing towards runway.&lt;p&gt;And then they announce that estimated flight time to Oslo will be 45 minutes. Uh, Oslo?&lt;p&gt;So, I call for a stewardess, who suggests that whatever I may need, just wait until we&amp;#x27;re airborne. &amp;#x27;Uh, that&amp;#x27;s kind of the point - I am going to BERGEN, not Oslo.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;She runs off to alert the captain, and a minute or two later, a truck with boarding stairs come zipping alongside, I disembark, get driven over to the plane to Bergen and as I board the correct plane, a guy is getting off the Bergen-bound plane and is driven over to the plane I had just left.&lt;p&gt;As we both had stumbled onto the wrong plane, the tally matched the expected numbers and all seemed normal - until they&amp;#x27;d announced where we were actually going, that is.</text></comment>
<story><title>Man creatively sneaks onto Delta flight, but gets caught</title><url>https://onemileatatime.com/news/man-creatively-sneaks-onto-delta-flight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zeroonetwothree</author><text>Once I accidentally got on the wrong plane, because two flights at adjacent gates were boarding at the same time. Apparently the boarding pass scanner didn&amp;#x27;t even check that the flight matched! It turned out that the person who actually had my seat on that flight was really late and so we didn&amp;#x27;t find out until just before the plane left the game. Fortunately I was able to rush over and make it onto my actual flight. But it would have been awkward if the other passenger hadn&amp;#x27;t made it at all...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>victorbjorklund</author><text>I always secretly hope I get on the wrong plane and end up somewhere fun. It does seem like it can happen from time to time since Ryanair now always informs &amp;quot;if you are on the wrong plane tell us!&amp;quot;.</text></comment>