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Wales Online
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Milo Boyd & Robert Dalling

Welsh gran nearly misses family wedding after airline takes her to the wrong country

A Welsh pensioner who thought she was on a plane headed to Slovenia for the wedding of her grandson was shocked to discover she had instead been taken 680 miles away when trying to get through passport control.

Wheelchair user Joe Winter, aged 89, and her daughter Hayley Vickery, 58, from Swansea, checked into Luton Airport on April 9, excited to get to Ljabljana - the capital of the central European country - for the wedding of Mrs Winter's grandson, Aaron, in Lake Bled.

They were being flown by Wizz Air, and the pair said they had a chat with a member of staff about Slovenia before showing an air steward their boarding passes. But it was only once they had touched down and made their way to passport control that a guard told them that they were actually in Poznań, Poland. We previously reported how a Swansea mum touched down from holiday to find her autistic son who had been taken ill wasn't put on plane. You can read about that by clicking here.

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