Re: Rhodes to nowhere: Internet error spells holiday surprise
- From: Alan S <nothere@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:29:32 +1000
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:03:30 -0700, Jugdish
<michaelnewport@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070905/tod-france-norway-greece-tourism-interne-7f81b96_1.html
Rhodes to nowhere: Internet error spells holiday surprise
AFP - Wednesday, September 5 02:13 pm
RODEZ, France (AFP) - A spelling mistake on the Internet led to a
surprise trip to remote southern France for three Norwegian tourists
who thought they were going to a Greek island, airport officials said
Wednesday.
The family group from Torp-Sandefjord thought they had booked a flight
to the island of Rhodes but instead the journey from Oslo took them
via London to Rodez, capital of the mountainous Aveyron department.
According to airport authorities at Rodez some 10 tourists make the
same mistake every year.
Do you remember these confused Brits:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2172858.stm
"An internet booking mix-up has left a young English couple
holidaying in chilly Sydney, Nova Scotia, instead of on the
sun-kissed beaches of the Australian city of the same name.
Emma Nunn, of Sidcup, Kent, and Raoul Christian, of
Charlton, south east London, both 19, bought their tickets
from an online travel agent for £740 each.
But after a six-hour flight from London's Heathrow Airport,
their flight landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Realising they were in eastern Canada, the couple assumed
they were "going the long way" because they had booked at
the last minute and would soon be arriving in Sydney,
Australia.
Mr Christian described the experience as "really, really
confusing".
"We thought 'OK, we are going to wait here and a big plane
is going to turn up and take us to Australia'.
"But it did not quite happen that way."
The passengers were asked to board a 25-seater plane.
And after just more than an hour they landed in sleepy
Sydney, Cape Breton Island, off the north eastern coast of
Canada."
Cheers, Alan, Australia
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