Man attempts trip to Sydney, Australia – and ends up in Sidney, Montana

‘It’s a matter of acronyms. The S-Y-D as opposed to S-D-Y. Somebody has to fix that,’ said Burnett. Photograph: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images

A New York man heading off on a dream holiday to Sydney, Australia, to take a cruise got the shock of his life when he looked out of the plane window to see snow-capped mountains rather than the golden sands of Bondi Beach.

“I saw a mountaintop covered in white snow. At that point, I knew I was in trouble,” Kingsley Burnett, 62, told local TV channel KTVQ after he realised he had booked and caught a flight to the tiny Montana city of Sidney rather than the Australian city.