However exciting it is to go on vacation, traveling by plane is pretty terrible. It's an amazing feat that we have the technology to travel so far in such a relatively short amount of time, but it's easy to forget about all of that when your ears are popping, babies are screaming, you have no leg room, and you've got to wait several hours to get out again. And that isn't even mentioning the airport itself, with the endless security checkpoints to go through.
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The fact is, once you arrive at your destination it is a monumental relief - and the shorter the travel time, the better. But some flights aren't so lucky. For instance, if you headed to Tokyo from Los Angeles, like
and her musician husband
did this week, you would be on the plane for 11 hours.
Or at least, that's how long you should be on there for. As it turns out, the celebrity couple got on the plane and flew for eight hours, only to arrive at the same airport that they had departed from.
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Their plane had to turn back four hours into the flight, all because of one passenger. Posting about the ordeal on
, Teigen explained that a passenger
boarded at LAX with a ticket for a different airline, but was let on by mistake. This oversight wasn't noticed until they were over the Pacific Ocean, so they turned back where they came from.
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The airline, All Nippon Airways, stated that there had been a problem with a customer's "flight arrangement", but didn't specify further.
Teigen told her followers that the passenger boarded the ANA flight despite having a ticket with United Airlines, but was let on anyway. Not knowing exactly what was going on, she proceeded to tweet the entire experience to her 9.23 million followers.
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When they arrived back at LAX, they all departed at once, with Teigen none the wiser to which person was the passenger. She remarked that they were lucky they didn't have to leave the plane alone in shame.
She went on to question why they were all punished for one person's mistakes, rather than continuing the flight to Tokyo.
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After they left the plane they had to wait for another flight, with some passengers being questioned - presumably just in case this wasn't a mistake - and then they could be on their way to Tokyo once more.
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During the debacle, one fellow passenger amassed over 3,000 retweets and 50,000 likes with one tweet after posting a selfie with the couple.
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Another strange thing to come out of Legend and Teigen's trip for New Year's Eve was some conspiracies that emerged online about it, which the model couldn't help but post once she saw:
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Whether it's
-related or simply a couple's getaway, I'm sure they'll be glad to put this extra-long flight behind them.
