Couple flown to wrong continent after airline error

[frazzled]

10. That had to be a whole series of errors (including on the part of the passengers)

1. At the issuance of the tickets. (This could be the airline's fault; or it could be the passengers', if they bought them online and put in the wrong code themselves.)

2. At the check-in, where passports and tickets are checked.

3. At the gate, where the tickets are scanned.

4. On the plane, where they always announce, "This is Flight XXX to Dhaka." Only this last mistake is perhaps understandable, because the passengers might not hear the difference between Dakar and Dhaka. Hopefully the announcer would say Dakar, Senegal or Dhaka, Bangladesh.

But hell, they should have checked where their tickets were marked for, and the airlines should have double checked.