Jakarta, shesocial Indonesia
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A help counter at Salzburg Airport,
Austria
, specifically dedicated to the wrong people that they think traveling to Australia, had become viral on social media.
This implies that quite a number of people make this mistake so that a special counter is needed to handle it.
“More than 100 passengers a year flew to Austria even though they wanted to fly to Australia,” uploaded Afzal’s Nazir users on X, a social media platform that was once known as Twitter, some time ago.”So, Salzburg Airport has a special counter for them.”
Accompanying the upload is a photo of a billboard in the Salzburg Airport baggage area.The billboard in the photo, which was first uploaded to the meme website
9gag
In 2021, read: “Sorry, this is Austria not Australia! Need help? Please press the button.”To the right of the text, the “SOS” button image stands out with a solid blue background.
Claims about the wrong travelers thought Austria as Australia had viral some time ago in a video of Tiktok and uploads on X, both of which have been seen millions of times.
The reality behind the viral meme
The problem is, of course, none of the claims are correct.The picture of the counter exploded to become a viral joke about mistakes that can be made by travelers.
Salzburg Airport confirmed to
The Washington Post
That they, in reality, do not have a help counter for travelers whose purpose is to Australia, but instead find themselves in Austria, which is locked up in land.
“There is no counter like that at Salzburg Airport, never existed, actually. I have never heard of anyone who travels to Salzburg accidentally, even though they actually want to go to Australia,” said Susanne Buchebner, Deputy Head of Public Relations for Salzburg Airport, in an email, as reported by Washington Post.
Buchebner said an advertisement made by a company named Commend, which sells the Interkom system, a few years ago was the root of the viral counter rumor.
[Gambas: Twitter]
The stories of the wrong journey destination
Even so, that does not mean that travelers have never faced the horror of finding themselves in the wrong destination.Comments on the upload X which was viral some time ago was filled with personal stories and rumors of the wrong travel plan.
“At East Midlands Airport, about 14 years ago, passengers were called to go up to Parma in Italy,” said a user.Though the passengers should go to the city of Palma on Balearic Island, Spain.
Other users share stories about a colleague they have to get off the connecting plane in New York when he realizes that the plane will go to El Salvador and not Salvador, a city in Brazil.
Some also mention the struggle of travelers who, in two well -documented incidents in 2002 and 2010, flew to Sydney in Nova Scotia, not in Australia.In 2022, a similar incident occurred when a New York traveler ended in Sidney, Montana, instead of arriving in the iconic port city in Australia.
And in the example of another famous story from 2021, all groups of French football fans flew far away to the Romanian capital, Bucharest, to watch their favorite team playing against Hungary as part of the Euro 2020 tournament. The problem?The match was held in Budapest, Hungary, which is 500 miles.
Maybe the best is for travelers to re -check their plane tickets and destinations long before they fly to places that are not true destinations.
(Wiw)
[Gambas: shesocial video]
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