Niamh Spence
A man who fancied a free holiday managed to sneak onto two planes without a boarding pass, including one which took him 800 miles to Stockholm.
While we've heard of tricks to get cheaper flights like booking certain days or times, this is an unusual method and not one we'd recommend.
For this bold male passenger, he made his first attempt on August 4 when he managed to clear security at Munich Airport, despite having no boarding card or flight documents.
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He made it onto a plane heading to Hamburg before crew realised he had no tickets and had him removed.
While he was spoken to by police for questioning, he was then later released.
Unbelievably just 24 hours later, he headed through security again but this time he made it onto a flight for Stockholm in Sweden - and again with no ticket or boarding pass.
This time he was lucky enough to find an empty seat and made the full 800 mile journey, before he raised suspicion with Lufthansa airline staff as when he landed he immediately wanted to head back to Munich.
Naturally, this has prompted a thorough security investigation with Bavarian Police as to how easily someone can breach security measures in place at an airport.
A spokesperson for Munich Airport told Business Insider that an investigation is now underway for how someone was 'able to bypass the automated boarding pass check in front of the security checkpoint'.
Currently the male passenger is facing charges relating to trespassing and fare evasion.
UNILAD has contacted Munich Airport and Swedish Police for a comment.
This isn't the first time that someone has been able to make it past security without buying a boarding pass.
Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava managed to get all the way to LA from Denmark after tailgating an unsuspecting passenger in November last year.
Officials were initially confused as to how Ochigava could have completed the journey without any documentation, and while he tried to claim that he 'did not remember how he got on the plane in Copenhagen' or how he got through security, it didn't stand up in court.
Sergey's plane hopping came with a hefty price to pay though as after being found guilty of being a stowaway on a plane, he was sentenced to 93 days in jail and ordered to pay $2,174 - which is the price of a one way ticket from LA to Copenhagen.