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> (I know people who flew to the wrong place with the right name)

I've imagined this might happen with Ontario, CA, and Ontario, CA (ONT vs. YYZ, maybe), or Portland, ME and Portland, OR (PWM vs. PDL), or maybe Vancouver vs. Vancouver Island (YYJ instead of YVR?).

Or San José, Costa Rica (SJO) instead of San José, California (SJC)??

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It has happened between Birmingham, Alabama (BHM) and Birmingham, England, UK (BHX)

https://www.cbs42.com/news/alabama-welcomes-british-couple-a...

Obviously people don't pay attention to flight times, it should've been obvious when the trip was 9 hours shorter than it should've taken

If I understood that article correctly, the flight was mistakenly booked to begin at BHM instead of BHX (not to end at BHM instead of BHX). This is also a consequential mistake, but one that initially meant that the purchased flight couldn't be used, rather than that it took the travelers to an unexpected destination.

(But according to the story, people then bought an additional BHX-BHM flight for these travelers as a gift so that they could visit the other Birmingham and apparently then make use of the mistaken flight.)

>If I understood that article correctly, the flight was mistakenly booked to begin at BHM instead of BHX (not to end at BHM instead of BHX)

Yes, but it should've been obvious when the flight to Las Vegas was 4 hours instead of 12

Oh, I see, you mean the length of the flight displayed when booking it, rather than the length experienced when sitting on board it!

I've heard of a mishap involving Granada vs Grenada

I hope nobody managed to mess up Georgia the state and the country

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