TikTokers accidentally board flight to Tunis in Northern Africa, not ‘to Nice’ in France

Two American tourists have taken the internet by storm after a wildly chaotic and hilarious flight fiasco went viral on social media.

Brittney Dzialo and her friend found themselves on board a flight headed for Tunis, the capital of the North African country Tunisia, after an airline worker misheard them when they booked a ticket to Nice, a coastal town in the south of France.

The confusion stemmed from the similar pronunciation of “Nice” (pronounced neese) and “Tunis” (pronounced too-neese). The pair only made the shocking realisation after chatting with fellow passengers when boarding the flight.

“Wait, where is this going?”, Ms Dzialo asked.

“Tunis, in Tunisia...North Africa, not in France. You’re not going to France, right?,” a passenger replied.

“Yeah, yeah, we are”, Ms Dzialo said.

The passenger exclaimed in shock, “You’re going to France!?”

“Isn’t that where this is going?, Ms Dzialo responded.

As the reality sank in, Ms Dzialo and her friend were hit with a wave of disbelief, equal parts panic and uncontrollable laughter, as they realised they were bound not for France, but for North Africa.

“Where’s Tunisia? Is that Africa?” Ms Dzialo asks her friend as they rush down the aisle to speak to the flight attendant.

“Oh my gosh, what do we do?” her friend says, flustered.

“We’re going to Africa”, Ms Dzialo responds.

The tourists told the flight attendant that they suspected they on the wrong flight, but were told it was too late to get off the plane and would have to sort it out after landing in Tunis.

After landing in Tunis, more confusion occurred as Ms Dzialo and her friend tried to sort out the mix-up with airline staff.

Due to the language barrier and the fact that “to Nice” and Tunis sound the same, the girls had a difficult time explaining the situation.

“They are making us pay for a new flight, saying we can’t get on the next one tonight,” Ms Dzialo said in another TikTok video.

“Everyone is rude.”

After spending several hours at Tunisia airport, the pair were finally able to get on a flight to their intended destination.

“Guys, we made it. I don’t know how, especially in a country where they don’t understand English. I don’t wish this upon any enemy. It was the craziest, most horrible experience of my life,” the tourists told their followers.

Sharing a photo of her friend posing next to a fountain, she wrote in the caption: “NICE COMMA FRANCE”.

The video, which has now racked up almost 30 million views on TikTok, has been met with much debate.

“My social anxiety would’ve just made me accept my fate and I would’ve ended up in Africa,” one user wrote in the comments.

Another asked, “They scan your boarding pass, how does this happen?”

“Is Geography illegal in the USA?,” wrote a third.

Ms Dzialo and her friend will be staying in Nice for a month, before travelling to Monaco, they told their followers.