Never underestimate a superfan on a mission. To get a chance to catch a glimpse of a sold-out Taylor Swift concert, fans have done everything from lining up outside stores for more than 24 hours and risking over $60,000 for scalped tickets to asking that a Southwest (LUV) -) pilot fly over a specific part of Los Angeles so that she could catch glimpses of the Taylor Swift concert taking place at SoFi Stadium.
The flight's trajectory was already set to go in that direction but the fan was still out of luck as she failed to take into account that SoFi is a covered stadium unlike the one in her home city.
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While the U.S. branch of Swift's Eras Tour is set to restart with a concert in Miami on Oct. 18, Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour is currently on its last stretch in the U.S. and, as many thought at first, bringing up similar levels of fan desperation.
'She somehow snuck onto this plane and was in the corner...'
A woman in a Beyoncé Renaissance World Tour t-shirt was thought to be a potential stowaway on a Southwest flight by some passengers after flight crew realized that there was an extra person aboard the flight and spent 40 minutes checking passenger IDs.
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The Sept. 27 flight was headed to New Orleans while a Beyoncé concert was taking place in the city on the same night.
"I'm DEAD," traveler Corey Moody wrote in the overlay of the one-minute TikTok video of the fan walking out of the plane. "[...] She somehow snuck onto this plane and was in the corner... until they did the math and checked and had to get up."
Moody expressed shock at what he thought was her level of boldness and how she got away with it. In the video, other passengers are heard snickering as the woman walks through the aisle and comes face to face with a smiling flight attendant.
It was all an act: Southwest representative explains
"She sat her a-- there this entire time," he says in the video. "Now she knew but was sitting in that corner real quiet. Like, ma'am, how did you even think… You're embarrassing Beyoncé."
When the video went viral, a Southwest representative explained that the passenger was not actually a stowaway — a scanning problem caused two passengers to be scanned incorrectly while the traveler likely played up the incorrect assumption from the other travelers.
"The Customer who deplaned held a boarding pass for that flight, but it did not scan properly," the representative said to the New York Post. "Thus, their seat was given to a standby Customer whose pass was scanned properly. The Customer who deplaned went on the next flight to New Orleans."
Back in 2014, an actual 62-year-old stowaway on a Southwest flight was arrested after multiple incidents of trying to sneak onto flights at San Francisco International Airport. She later drove to San Jose where she was not known by the staff and did get onto a flight to Los Angeles without a ticket but was promptly arrested and charged with misdemeanor trespassing.
