Ryanair passenger lands in wrong Italian city
The passenger only realised when he looked out of the window and realised the landscape looked different
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Your support makes all the difference.An Italian man was left distraught after he discovered he’d boarded the wrong flight.
The passenger was booked onto a Ryanair flight from Pisa to Cagliari in Sardinia, but somehow ended up on the service to Bari in southern Italy instead.
According to fellow passenger Vito Scotella, the man only realised he was in the wrong place when the aircraft started its descent and he noticed “the landscape was different to Cagliari".
“He started insulting the flight assistants arguing they let him pass through the gates,” Scotella told CNN.
He posted a video on Twitter in which the furious traveller can be heard shouting at cabin crew, saying, “I’m going to Cagliari. Do you understand me?”
The video was captioned: “Landed. He realises that he is in Bari and not in Cagliari.”
Scotella said the man was distressed because he was meant to be meeting a friend who was ill in Cagliari.
“I spent 400 euros. I have no money left,” he reportedly told crew.
It’s unclear how the disgruntled passenger managed to get on the wrong plane.
Scotella theorised that he boarded the other aircraft on the tarmac having gone through the correct gate.
“The flight to Cagliari was late so the two boardings were really close to each other,” he said, adding that the man must have got confused and that cabin crew probably didn’t check his ticket once on the plane.
A Ryanair spokesperson told The Independent: “We have asked our third party handling agent at Pisa to investigate this matter and ensure it does not recur.”
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