Show up at the Wrong Airport? Online Analysis Shows You’re Not Alone
Last Friday, Jeff and I were heading from Chicago to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to visit Ryan and catch up on some Loudpixel software development in person. When we arrived at Midway about an hour and 20 minutes before our flight, we realized, to our immediate horror, that our flight was out of O’Hare.
About 45 minutes and a few forehead slaps later, we arrived at the correct terminal in time to make our flight. To abate the embarrassment of arriving at the wrong airport, we decided to dive into Radian6 to find out how many others had made a similar mistake in the past 30 days.
137 people in the U.S. have told a story about going to the wrong airport in the past 30 days.
- 80 Twitter posts
- 51 blog posts
- 3 Facebook posts
- 2 Comments
- 1 Mainstream News articles
According to eMarketer, there are 26 million adult Twitter users (8.38% of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau). So extrapolating this out, let’s say that 926 people go to the wrong airport every month. Now we don’t look so bad, right?
And if that doesn’t make us feel better, here are a few more stories that have popped up in the past 30 days that make our arrival at the wrong airport pale in comparison.
