Woman boards wrong flight without her passport – and ends up 900 miles away
A WOMAN revealed how she boarding the wrong flights without her passport – and ended up in an entirely different country 900 miles away.
Beverly Ellis-Hebard, from Pennsylvania, often flies between her main home and her holiday home in Florida.
Last year, she booked flights between the two states with Frontier Airlines.
She told ABC7: “I fly once every six weeks. I picked Frontier flights because we flew so often.”
Being within the US, she didn’t pack her passport as it isn’t needed to fly domestically.
However, it was only after she boarded did she realised she wasn’t going to Florida – but actually to Jamaica.
The problem started when she dashed to the bathroom before she boarded what she thought was her flight at the gate.
After boarding, she said crew told her she would be able to kick back and relax when landing in Jamaica.
Beverly said: “I laughed. I said ‘I would love to be going there but I have a beach where I live’.”
It was then that the flight attendant said the plane was actually going to Jamaica, not Florida.
Beverly realise she boarded the wrong flight, after the gate changed while she was in the bathroom at the terminal.
Not only that, but she didn’t have her passport despite leaving the country – and ended up flying hundreds of miles to the Caribbean.
She said she was told: “You’re entering a different country without a passport. That’s bad.”
Thankfully she was allowed to land and stayed between the plane and airport gate at the Jamaican airport as it was still considered US soil.
She was then put on the next flight back to Philadelphia.
A Frontier Airlines spokesperson said they refunded her original ticket and gave her a $600 (£474) flight voucher.
They said: “We sincerely regret that the customer was able to board the wrong flight and have extended our apologies.
“We have provided her with a refund and compensation as well as addressed the matter with airport personnel.”
Beverly isn’t the only person this has happened to.
Marijose Gamboa was supposed to be flying to Tuxtla Gutierrez in Mexico from Guadalajara, but ended up in North West America 3,000 miles away after boarding the wrong flight.
A Ryanair passenger missed their flight after boarding the wrong plane, ending up in Dublin rather than Barcelona.
And a grandma missed her grandson’s wedding after flying to Poland by mistake.