A plane passenger has sent passengers into hysterics over a prank sign she spotted out of the window of her flight into Gatwick Airport.
Twitter user Abbey took a snap of the welcome sign inscribed across a field at Gatwick’s landing strip which is visible from plane windows.
She noticed something incorrect about the greeting that made social media users chuckle as well as those who had seen it from the airplane.
Posting a snap of the notice, which was spelt out in large white letters near a farm, Abbey said:
“Flying in to Gatwick, just before landing this is what is out the left window… great prank, deffo at Gatwick.”
In the photo, rolling green hills and houses could be seen, but alongside a road the words: “Welcome to Luton” were emblazoned across the grass.
For context, Gatwick Airport is just south of London near Crawley while Luton Airport is north of London above Watford.
So, the prank was clearly designed to trick passengers into thinking they're landing at the wrong airport and will be miles away from their ride home.
Abbey’s post quickly went viral with more than 20k likes and 1.5k retweets and in the comments, many Twitter users were chuckling at the prank sign.
Youtuber Max Fosh, who is known for his pranks around London, has taken responsibility for the prank.
One person wrote: “I can just imagine the panic attacks I would be having when looking out my window to see that haha.”
While another then joked: “You can tell it's fake... there's no way anyone near Luton would welcome people.”
Guilty… https://t.co/4qDYYT17ur
— Max Fosh (@max_fosh) May 21, 2022
