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"The agent waved me away" — why she missed her flight to New Zealand

From trusting AI to ignoring new visa rules, here are the mistakes that could ruin your next trip

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Christopher Elliott
Dec 14, 2025
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One of the newest mistakes travelers make is also one of the oldest: forgetting their paperwork.

It happened to Katharine Nohr when she tried to fly to New Zealand. Nohr, an attorney from Honolulu, was so used to traveling to Europe that she assumed she didn’t need a visa to enter New Zealand.

But she did.

“I couldn’t check in for my flight,” she remembers…

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