The whole thing is an advertisement on a baggage carousel in Austria for a company called Commend that offers intercom systems.
Salzburg airport’s website has no mention of a special desk for those trying to reach Australia. If there were 100 errors per year, that would be 1 every 3 days, providing limited need for a desk.
I think they ment a counter like 1…2…3… Not a counter you approach that seats an employee.
Well now you ruined my day. Thanks.
I don’t know if this is true, but it does make me feel better!
The giveaway here is that it’s Salzburg, not Vienna. International flyers into Austria are almost universally going to end up in Vienna by default. Vienna’s airport sees ~20x the annual passenger count.
Paywall. Isn’t stupid for an article like this? It’s a curiosity that attracts many people from the world. That page is designed to just be ad-supported. Nobody living outside Austria would ever subscribe to “the local - Austria” just because it’s curious about a meme/ad.
Why even bother writing that article if nobody can read it
Link fixed: https://archive.ph/wVNt5
Mangers daughter and a friend of hers where about to go for season work in Australia and do a bit of travel around and found a very cheap ticket to Sidney, bought it and went off.
Sidney, Canada…
Lolol I live in Canada. I have never heard of that. Sidney, BC, population 11,000.
You fly to cities/airports, not countries. There’s no way people are screwing that up.
How would you even get on a plane without a corresponding ticket?
You would buy a ticket to Austria not realizing it was the wrong place. I have a very, very stupid cousin who did exactly that.
So where are you going in Australia?
“No idea mate. Figure I’ll sort it out when i get there.”
Ahh yes “Salzburg, New South Wales”
I once almost accidentally flew to Puerto Rico rather than my city on the way back from a Thanksgiving trip because they unexpectedly delayed the flight and switched the gates
At least Austrasia isn’t a thing anymore.
the territory that hasn’t existed since the middle ages?
australasia is still a term people use for the asia-pacific region that includes australia though
In Austria they have these nifty stickers that they sell to tourists: “Warning! No kangaroos in Austria”
You have a bad day when you fly to Austria, but your bags are going to Australia.
Even funnier the Vienna Hbf has Australian flags ourside and not Autrian ones
… Guess I’m Austrian now.
It’s a step up from everybody thinking I’m from New York for some reason.
