Weary traveller or just silly mistakes

[harvyk]

I think I had my most serious "Oh God" moment on Sunday afternoon, we'd checked out and where driving back to LA (in time so I'd make my flight at LAX), about an hour into the drive I thought I might have left my passport back at the hotel. (I'd forgotten I'd placed it into my bag for safe keeping) I was quite nervous until I found it sitting in the top pocket of the bag as I'm normally pretty good at keeping hold of my passport, and it normally doesn't leave my shirt pocket, however not much of an option when I spent half my time in the pool.

 

[harvyk]

Ah, those were the days. I would probable end-up in custody if I pulled that stunt today.

Well these days the machine would beep with flashing red lights at you well before you got near the A/C, so I think your pretty safe from that mistake in this day and age...

 

[nickykim]

Flew into NYC at 1 am. First time in USA. Had pre booked town car pick up which didnt arrive on time. Paid the driver at the end of the trip in cash, didn't get a receipt. Got back to Melbourne and noticed charge from car company on credit card. Well I think I paid twice but I was so tired at the time I got out of that car I could have imagined that I paid cash. Who knows.....

 

[deka2]

I often get flustered going through Customs.
So many things to remember when travelling with Carryon.
Put bag up, take out LAGs, put daypack up, take out laptop, take off coat and then put all keys, change, phone etc in daypack.
Sometimes ends up being three trays and a bag on the conveyor belt.
Them make sure all these are going through the scanner and walk through myself.
Thank heavens there’s no Beep.
Put everything back in the bags they should be, sigh, double check I still have my Passport and Boarding pass and then head to the lounge.

 

[ash.1111]

As cabin crew I still make silly mistakes. Yesterday I went down the wrong aerobridge only to be told the plane was terminating - lucky otherwise I would have just hopped on and started doing my checks!

Or today I got my boarding pass but never 'boarded' myself. Lucky my coworker told me otherwise I would have had my name paged in the cabin...

It's what we cal, 'auto pilot'.

 

[Kgreenh]

Has anybody been asked by the checkin attendant where they are going and replied Umm Where am I now? Kl to Sing, Sing-Perth, Perth-Syd,Syd-Gold Coast, Gold Coast -Syd,Syd Perth,Perth.....Blah,Blah,Blah. No wonder Icouldn't remember where I was going!

 

[JohnK]

Has anybody been asked by the checkin attendant where they are going and replied Umm Where am I now? Kl to Sing, Sing-Perth, Perth-Syd,Syd-Gold Coast, Gold Coast -Syd,Syd Perth,Perth.....Blah,Blah,Blah. No wonder Icouldn't remember where I was going!

Welcome to AFF.

I may or may not have been asked that question once or twice! :shock:

 

[tuapekastar]

Has anybody been asked by the checkin attendant where they are going and replied Umm Where am I now? Kl to Sing, Sing-Perth, Perth-Syd,Syd-Gold Coast, Gold Coast -Syd,Syd Perth,Perth.....Blah,Blah,Blah. No wonder Icouldn't remember where I was going!

Can happen, particularly in the latter stages of a long multi-sector trip! Welcome to AFF!

 

[RockDoc]

I was in Turkey in 2008, returning home after a rather gruelling schedule of intra-country flights. I was looking forward to sitting in the lounge at IST, then collapsing for a sleep as soon as I boarded. Lined up to check in with EK to come home - no record of my booking with ~1.5 hours to flight departure.

It turns out that a schedule change to my work itinerary had meant that the company travel agent had forgotten to re-issue my ticket. So off to the Emirates ticket sales booth I head, where I stood in the business class line waiting for an hour or so to have a "lost" ticket re-issued so I could hopefully make my flight.

Numerous people trying to push in from the economy line at the sales counter, and a number of arguments between punters and the emirates staff for doing so, have me face to face with the sales girl with ~45 minutes to go.
The girl at the counter was fantastic, and re-issued me a paper ticket, I raced over to the check in desk, raced through customs with ~15 minutes to departure...only to see that my flight had just been delayed for 1.5 hours.

So, off the lounge I go, where the guy at reception looked at my flustered state, and immediately said "good evening Mr RockDoc, are you mising something?" and promptly handed over the credit card I had left at the sales counter after paying for my ticket re-issue.

I guess it happens to the best of us (and me too!).

 

[TiredOldFlyer]

A few years ago left my phone ( new expensive iphone ) in a cab in Sydney after a long International Flight. Rang the number, cabbie answered, yes I can
bring it back but I am very busy. Cost $100 to make him not busy !

 

[Fantic125]

Has anybody been asked by the checkin attendant where they are going and replied Umm Where am I now? Kl to Sing, Sing-Perth, Perth-Syd,Syd-Gold Coast, Gold Coast -Syd,Syd Perth,Perth.....Blah,Blah,Blah. No wonder Icouldn't remember where I was going!

Welcome to AKK Kgreenh, and yes, that's happened to me a few times!

Just as bad is walking off a plane into a terminal and wondering where the heck you are and where you're meant to be going next. Thank goodness for itineraries!

Also waking up in the middle of the night in a hotel room and not knowing where you are, or where the light switch is! :shock:

 

[ozmille]

Also waking up in the middle of the night in a hotel room and not knowing where you are, or where the light switch is! :shock:

The times I have woken up in the night and searched google on the iPhone "what is the time in ..." to try to find out where the hell I am, last time this happened was actually back home here in SYD and I had no idea where I was and why the bathroom was in the wrong spot

 

[ozbeachbabe]

In the US 3 years ago my passport fell out of my handbag on an AS flight SFO/SEA. It must've happened when I grabbed my camera out of my bag to take a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge just after takeoff & the camera strap flicked it onto the floor. I didn't realise until we got to the hotel & they asked for the passport when checking in.

Thankfully I'd kept the AS inflight mag which had some useful contact numbers so I called baggage services & asked if a passport had been found on that flight - it hadn't. I asked where the plane went after SEA which was DFW & guess what passport found.

Trying to get it back was a bit of a logistical exercise as by the time the passport made it back to SEA we were in LAS. They called to ask me to come & pick it up that day & I told them we were in LAS. Apparently if things are collected that day they go the a warehouse somewhere & I wasn't overly confident of getting the passport back if it went there.

AS told me I could call FedEx & sign up for a one time account to send the passport to NYC where we were going after LAS. Rang FedEx & got all the way through to consignment process up to the last stage with the credit card details when they asked for the US billing address for the credit card which I didn't have as it was an Australian credit card.

Rang up AS again to tell them this & ask if they could please charge my credit card so they could despatch passport. They never ended up charging my card however they did FedEx my passport to the NYC Hotel so I was reunited with it 6 days after losing it.

I couldn't have got it back without having a US cell phone as communication would've been impossible.

 

[Dave R32]

Walking up the aerobridge off a flight DFW to DTW, patted pocket for wallet and nothing was there....oh dear (or words to that effect). Managed to get back on the plane and here is my wallet sitting on the seat, you couldn't wipe the smile off my face for hours !

And just last week in LAX, I left my passport at the Virgin Australia check-in counter, thankfully I was nice and early so it wasnt a hassle to go back and get it.

It's amazing how your heart rate jumps when you suddenly realise you have lost something so important.

Cheers
Dave.

 

[NM]

They never ended up charging my card however they did ...

Ahh, so the real problem was that you missed out on earning some CC spend points/miles

 

[TonyHancock]

I should also add that I left an iPhone in the Y+ toilet and my wallet in the J toilet on two different A380 flights with QF. Both returned quickly to me.

I have also lost multiple headphone adapters including two last month. :shock:

 

[Aussie_flyer]

I left noise cancelling headphones in a gap between the seat and the side wall of the aircraft on an AA 757 after arriving in JFK. I got to the lounge before I realised, ran all the way back to the gate where the agent had just closed the doors. Managed to get him to walk me back onto the plane where the cleaning crew were already halfway through cleaning and one of them had my headphones with him! I got it back!

 

[abstraction]

Most recent one - Melbourne to Chennai via Singapore.
I'm in Singapore, standing in line for the preboarding area, and saw a sign that said Delhi. Oops, this isn't my flight. I checked my ticket. It said Delhi. I had booked myself to Delhi when I wanted to go to Chennai, and didn't realise until half-way through the flight in SINGAPORE!??? Waiting to board??????!!!

 

[abstraction]

Wallet #1: I was in Zimbabwe, sitting next to an old lady waiting for my pickup to the airport. The driver came and we drove two blocks when he stopped. A security guard was waving us down. The old lady came up and handed me my wallet, which must have fallen out. Not a penny missing of the USD800 cash. She walked off without any expectation of thanks or reward.
Wallet #2: I'm standing at check-in, Jo-berg. A staff member from the cheap hotel I had stayed in walked up to me and handed me my wallet, turned around and left, without expectation of thanks or reward. No idea how she found me in that huge airport.

Lesson 1: Africa is home to many beautiful people.
Lesson 2: For heaven's sake, STOP LOSING MY WALLET!!!

 

[abstraction]

My friend from Toronto went to DC and arrived at the Dulles airport, had meetings all day, then went back to Dulles.
"Umm... I'm sorry, madam, but your flight is at Reagan."
"Really? But this is where I arrived."
"No, that's not possible, both of your flights were through Reagan."

Possible or not, she had boarded the wrong flight in the morning, and no-one noticed.