A couple from Los Angeles who were planning to travel to Senegal but ended up in Bangladesh after Turkish Airlines (THY) mixed up two airport codes has finally been compensated with two free tickets to anywhere that THY flies.
thats what happen to Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband, Triet Vo, were intending to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar in Senegal with THY in December of last year. However, instead they ended up almost 7,000 miles away — on an entirely different continent — in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, after the airport codes were mixed up by the airline’s ticket agent. The airport code for Dakar, the capital of Senegal, is DKR, while the code for the airport in Dhaka, which is the capital of Bangladesh, is DAC.
After arriving in İstanbul, the couple boarded a connecting flight. It was only after seeing the route map of the flight’s progress, which showed the plane over the Middle East, that they realized the error.