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re: United Airlines flew woman to 4800km (dunno the conversion) in the wrong direction

Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:50 pm to
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:50 pm to
quote:

French speaker. I guess either very bad or no English.


Is San Francisco easily confused with Paris when written in French?
Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
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Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:50 pm to
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
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Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:50 pm to
quote:

I'm sure it just gets to a point we're they are scanning and boarding and not paying too much attention.


Yep. And another flight attendant saw her boarding pass but still didn't say anything.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
139226 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:50 pm to
quote:

Would it even be in the same terminal given domestic/international?


This was my thought as well. Plus they say "welcome to United flight 234 with nonstop service to San Francisco" like three times before they take off.
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
111639 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:51 pm to
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And another flight attendant saw her boarding pass but still didn't say anything.




What, are you thinking they just wanted to frick with this lady?
Posted by Displaced
Member since Dec 2011
33054 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:51 pm to
At what point did she notice the plane wasn't over water?
Posted by Wayne Campbell
Aurora, IL
Member since Oct 2011
7452 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:51 pm to
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Was she not tipped off when the announcements onboard said Paris or when they were read back in French?


She was trying to go to Paris and ended up in San Francisco.

Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
33146 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:51 pm to
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Would it even be in the same terminal given domestic/international?



I haven't flown international through Newark. Some airports don't separate the departure gates though.
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
23550 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:51 pm to
At least she didn't end up someplace worse like Mexico City or Canada.
Posted by cubsfan5150
NWA
Member since Nov 2007
18952 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:52 pm to
I'm assuming that the airlines are the new things that the MSM and social media want us to be mad at?
Posted by K E V 8 4
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Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:52 pm to
Know how I know you failed significant digits? It's all good.
Posted by Wayne Campbell
Aurora, IL
Member since Oct 2011
7452 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:52 pm to
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I guess the fact that she didn't see the ocean out the window wasn't concerning to her.



Would have been a little too late at that point, no?
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
179906 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:53 pm to
she was probably trying to get away from her parents.
And she thought, “Wow
If I could take this in a shot right now
I don't think that we could work this out”
Out on the terrace
I don't know if it's fair but I thought “How
Could I let you fall by yourself
While I'm wasted with someone else”
Posted by Boudreaux35
BR
Member since Sep 2007
22281 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:53 pm to
I'm going to side with the airline on this one. Read the damn sign at the gate, stupid bitch!
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
93541 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:53 pm to
UAL may have made a mistake, but how stupid do you have to be to willingly board a plane to SFO, with all of the PAS, announcing SFO during boarding, SFO is on the board at the departure gate, they make another PA before they close the door, people become pretty much idiots when they step foot on airport property, and of course if there's a snag, it's always the mean old airline's fault, airlines have become babysitters and scapegoats, but don't worry, congress gone stepn in an' fix it
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
33146 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:53 pm to
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What, are you thinking they just wanted to frick with this lady?



No, I'm saying that the flight attendant didn't look very hard at her boarding pass. Neither did the gate agent.

But her sitting in the wrong seat should be a hint that her boarding pass needs to be looked at. Also surprised that she didn't get dragged off the plane bloodied and bruised after sitting in the wrong seat.
This post was edited on 5/8/17 at 1:55 pm
Posted by BR Tiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2004
4760 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:54 pm to
You guys need to RTFA before commenting. Yes, there has to be responsibility on her part. However- United changed gates on her and didn't make an announcement in French, only English. She does not speak English. They also failed to send an email notification of the gate change. She got on the plane at the gate shown on her boarding pass.

He niece has been the spokesperson for her on this since she doesn't speak English. Per the niece, they are only looking for United employees to pay attention to their jobs so this sort of thing doesn't happen. There were multiple points along the way where an employee who was barely paying attention would have caught the error and corrected it before this lady ended up a continent further away from here destination.
This post was edited on 5/8/17 at 1:55 pm
Posted by saint tiger225
San Diego
Member since Jan 2011
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Posted by LucasP
Member since Apr 2012
21618 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:54 pm to
quote:

guess the fact that she didn't see the ocean out the window wasn't concerning to her.


A lot of times planes will take the land route to Europe since it's cheaper than flying over ocean.
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
179906 posts
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:55 pm to
well this is america and we speak american
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