Maps used by British Airways show Stansted Airport 40 miles out of position in a tiny Kent village with the same name.
The airline's in-flight skymaps appear to show the UK's third busiest airport in the rural parish of Stansted, in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent.
It's actual location is 40 miles away in Essex.
The error is reported to affect the airline's 67-strong Airbus fleet but the problem has not been replicated on pilots' navigation systems.
A BA spokesman said: "What we need to find out is whether whoever was responsible for the maps intended for a little village with a population of 200 to be highlighted as the airport. Probably not.
"It would seem odd that a little village has been highlighted. It's a reasonable assumption to make that they thought it was Stansted Airport but clearly we will have to check this."
BA would have to install new software to correct the position on its maps.
But confusion between the Kent village and Stansted Airport is nothing new, according to villagers.
Anne Roberts, landlady of the Black Horse Inn, said: "It doesn't surprise me that this has happened because we are always getting confused with Stansted in Essex.
"We sometimes get big articulated lorries with cargo for Stansted Airport driving around the village.
"One time I found a woman who had driven all the way from Southend across the Dartford Crossing because she thought this was where the airport was.
"I've even found my bed and breakfast business advertised on some websites as an airport hotel, yet we are located miles away from Stansted in a totally different county."
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