Confused Tourist Lands in U.S., Not Australia
BERLIN (Dec. 29) – A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometres away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.
Dressed for the Australian summer in t-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany Saturday for a four-week holiday.
Instead of arriving “down under,” Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for the chilly state of Montana.
“I did wonder but I didn’t want to say anything,” Gutt told the Bild newspaper. “I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States.”
Gutt’s airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney — an oil town of about 5,000 people — did he realize his mistake.
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That reminds me of a similar true story from years ago when someone in the U.S. wanted to fly to Oakland (California) but he ended up in Auckland (New Zealand)! Oops!
Happened to be carrying his passport?
My wife and I were both born in the same county
But different continents 🙂
Sydney’s a bit of a hole really. He’s probably going to have more fun in Montana.