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A 16-year-old girl failed to have her boarding pass checked and accidentally boarded the wrong Ryanair plane, ending up in Dublin instead of Luton. MailOnline Travel reports.
Unfortunately this was an earlier flight to Dublin.
She was not checked before entering the aircraft, and her boarding pass was only given a ‘cursory glance probably to check the seat number’ by the cabin staff.
She then settled into her seat, that just by luck was also free on the flight, and fell asleep.
It was only on landing that she realised something was amiss.
She peered out of the window at a body of water and ‘realised that she was not coming into Luton’.
This led to frantic phone calls to the family home in Hertfordshire, as her parents tried desperately to help get her a flight home.
‘No one checked her pass at the gate in Copenhagen, they gave it a cursory glance probably to check the seat number on the plane, and clearly didn’t do a passenger count,’ mother Ellie Renshaw told MailOnline Travel.
‘I am gobsmacked and absolutely fuming as can’t believe given the “heightened sense of security” that they let this happen.
‘I thought this was only for Hollywood movies.
‘Alexandra is only 16, and will have been nervous and anxious travelling on her own. Her mistake would have been realised if the boarding pass was checked properly.
‘She told me that she only realised something was wrong when she woke up, looked out the window to see water, and realised she was not coming in to Luton.’
