LONDON -- We have all been there, rushing to the airport, trying to not forget anything - especially our passports because we would not be allowed to board the plane, right?
For one man, this was not the case. Without realising he had picked up his girlfriend's passport, Josh Reed managed to travel all the way from London's Stansted to Dortmund, Germany, because no one at the airport had stopped him.
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However, it was only after he made it through security and landed in Germany with his friends that he realised that his passport did not belong to him -- it belonged to his 7 months pregnant girlfriend, Sophie Watkins.
"We have different surnames and we couldn’t look more different," Reed said, according to The Sun. "It makes you wonder how easy it would be for people that look alike to get through on fake passports.”
In an emailed statement, Ryanair said their "handling agent at the boarding gate mistakenly failed to check the passport of this passenger, and Swissport have assured us that appropriate steps will be taken to prevent a recurrence. However, it is Mr. Reed’s primary responsibility to ensure that he is traveling on his valid passport in compliance with Ryanair’s terms and conditions."