Birmingham Blues
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:47 pm
A couple accidentally booked a cheap flight to the Caribbean from the wrong Birmingham Airport - 4,000 miles away.
Kevin Jones and his partner Jeanette were thrilled when they bagged two return flights to Trinidad for just £800.
But when they arrived at the West Midlands hub, they were told their American Airlines flight was actually taking off from Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport - the biggest in the U.S. state of Alabama.
Mr Jones, 55, from Glenfield, Leicester, told The Sun on Sunday: 'The girl at the information desk broke the news with a very sympathetic look that our flight was leaving over 2,000 miles away.
'We had no choice but to get our car out of long stay and drive home.'
The pair are now on a bargain break in the Spanish resort of Benidorm instead, the newspaper reported.
Despite the 4,200-mile distance between them, the two airports have some surprising similarities.
They are a similar size and both went into service around the same time - the UK's version was commissioned in 1928, while flights began at the U.S. version in the same year.
