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Little Star

(17,055 posts)
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 12:16 PM Jun 2014

Talk about being rightfully pissed off....

Dentist wanted to go on holiday to Granada, not Grenada, and now he’s suing BA

After two years without a holiday and a lifetime of longing to see the architectural treasures of Granada, Edward Gamson felt he could at last relax as he sat back on a British Airways flight en route to the capital of Moorish Spain. It was only when the American dentist and his partner glanced at the electronic map on the in-flight entertainment system and noticed their plane was heading due west out of London that they became concerned something was not right.

Some nine hours later, the pair found themselves not among the arabesques of the Alhambra Palace but a full 4,000 miles from their intended destination, on the Caribbean holiday island of Grenada.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-flight-where-checkin-turned-into-cockup-9554326.html

Article says this isn't the first time it's happened.

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