A single letter of your first name misplaced when buying a plane ticket and the typo ends up costing you 500 euros. “The equivalent of what we paid for the original round trip,” grimaces Inane. This is the mishap experienced by his wife, Yasemin, on October 22. That day, Turkish Airlines refused to allow her to board the plane for her return flight from Kayseri, Turkey, to Paris. The first name on the ticket does not correspond to that on the identity papers presented by this French woman of Turkish origin. “She had written Yasmine rather than Yasemin. A stupid mistake,” argues her husband, Inane.
Yasemin argues for several minutes, citing a typo and pointing out that there is no mistake in his name. Without ever managing to obtain the agreement of Turkish Airlines. The airline justifies its refusal by “security measures” and claims that this “would create problems” upon arrival in Paris, before French customs. On the way out, the error did not cause any problems. “She was therefore forced to buy a ticket again, for another flight on the same day, for 520 euros, while the round trip originally cost 450 euros,” summarizes Inane.