Today, I was flying back home from college with my Mom. At the airport, the ticket agent tells us she only has one ticket listed for Margaret. My mom and I have the same name. American Airlines thought a Margaret had bought two tickets by mistake, so they cancelled one of the transactions. FML
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Today, I was forced to spend an extra $318 for another plane ticket to Dallas. The ticket wasn't for my daughter, my mom, or my sister, but for the quarter of my butt that apparently needs its own seat. FML
Today, when I arrived at the airport for my international flight there was no record of my ticket in the system. Turns out the flight was yesterday. FML
Today, I found out that my mother in-law's flight home is canceled, and that she's staying three more days. FML
Today, I was flying home to Milwaukee after a weekend in South Carolina. When I got to the airport, my reservation didn't match up with any flights. Turns out Expedia booked me on a flight that doen't exist. I spent ten hours waiting in the airport for a two hour flight. FML
Today, I checked in for my flight, made it through TSA, bought food, and sat at the gate for an hour. I only realized I was sitting at the wrong gate when boarding for another flight finished and everyone had left. I ran to the correct gate, but it was too late. Despite me pleading, the plane was already taxiing to the runway. FML
Today, I was the only passenger on a completely booked flight to have all their luggage left behind in another country. FML
Today, my mother offered to pay for my tickets to go see my girlfriend who I haven't seen for 6 months. She was happy to pay for the £130 flight, but then refused half way through the purchase because she wasn't going to "let the buggers charge £13 extra" for using her credit card. FML
Today, I got an expensive return bus ticket to visit my family 200 miles away. I accidentally tore the ticket when taking it from the machine, but the driver said not to worry, as it would still be accepted on the way back. Guess who's still 200 miles from home. FML
Today, I booked a long distance flight across two continents, costing me over 600 bucks. I then got a confirmation email. For a different flight. I wrote to their customer service address, saying there has been an error, and to please either change or cancel the booking. I never got any reply. At all. FML
Today, I was on a flight home. I wasn't going to arrive until midnight, so I was offered an earlier flight that got back at ten. I got to baggage claims and it turned out they lost my bag. I sat there for 2 hours. The people on my original flight left for home before I did. FML
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MathMajor6 6
Why wouldn't they like call you or something and ask if it's a mistake instead of just cancelling your tickets? I know plenty of people that have the same names, especially if they're related.
genius_man16 1
Can they do that?
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rukusrazor 0
They wouldn't do that. Even if, they'd fix the issue. Whether it's squeezing you on that plane, or getting the both of you together on an earlier / later flight. Yawn.
drunkenatheist 0
Team #12. Oh yeah, and what's with all the really lame fml's lately? Getting stranded at the airport - even if it did happen - is hardly fml worthy. Ugh.
XvxvX 0
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Well at least now u can sue :P ydi for havin the same name as ur mom... Jk..=D
cherrybollosm04 0
i never did like when parents named their children after them, but hey they can obviously do what they want. in this situation though, that does seem like a FML situation.
redbluegreen 41
I know a couple of girls who have the same name as their mothers. It's not super common, but it does happen. I don't think the airport would really do this without asking her first, but if they did, they'd correct it somehow. Not much of an FML if you really think about it.
people_annoy_me 23
#16 it is an FML because her ticket got cancelled, because the airline messed up
wbrycem 0
13 - Getting stranded at (an) airport(s) SUCKS. Especially when you have nothing to do for 3+ hours at a time. Have a fun time sitting and waiting, when your scheduled flight had you home 8 hours earlier than you got home. Airports are only entertaining for so long. At least that's what happened to me. I'd say it's FML worthy.
TomFantastic 0
That's got to be fake, airlines wouldn't cancel a ticket because they "think" it might be a mistake
omglyktotally78 0
More like **** the airport peoples lives for being complete retards
xo3velyn 0
uhm, i dont think that they could do that, without asking first at least, and its not really an FML unless they couldnt get you on a plane until like the next day or something, but they probably could. whats with all of the lmae fml's lately...
Kristoffer 35
TomFantastic, you place far too much faith in humanity. I'm pretty confident that people would do exactly that if it made their job easier.