Birmingham Airport: 90 Barcelona passengers board easyJet flight to Berlin
Around 90 holidaymakers heading from Birmingham Airport to Barcelona showed their boarding passes, took their seats and settled in for Spain – on an easyJet flight to Berlin. One twigged only because everyone around him was speaking German.
Getting on the wrong bus is embarrassing. Getting on the wrong aeroplane, along with about 89 other people, takes real teamwork. On Sunday 1 November, around 90 passengers booked on the 3.05pm easyJet flight from Birmingham Airport to Barcelona walked through the gate, showed their boarding passes, found seats and settled in for a few days of Spanish sunshine.
The plane was going to Berlin.
AI illustration – “Is this Barcelona?” Not the actual event.
According to Birmingham Live, the flight had changed gates at the very last minute, and “almost all of the plane” ended up in the wrong place. One man only began to suspect something was up when he noticed that an awful lot of the people around him were speaking German. When he asked the cabin crew, they reportedly thought at first that he was joking. He wasn’t.
The would-be Barcelona crowd were asked to get off and trek to the other end of the terminal, where they finally boarded the right plane, which was delayed. One mum told the paper she found it “quite worrying” that boarding passes for a different flight number weren’t flagged.
AI illustration – the long walk to Spain. Not the actual event. Can you spot Gaz? #WheresGaz
easyJet apologised for the inconvenience and said it was looking into what happened with its ground-handling provider at Birmingham. Birmingham Airport said questions were a matter for the airline. Nobody, as far as we know, ended up in Berlin. Which is a shame: the currywurst is excellent.
Sources: Birmingham Live (10 Nov 2026) · Birmingham Live – easyJet “sorry” · The Mirror · Manchester Evening News
Image credits: Top photo: Mike Peel, “G-EZOX - Easyjet - Birmingham Airport 2026 010”, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (representative, cropped; not the aircraft involved). Illustrations: Gorilla Gazette / AI-generated, not real photos.
