Had a nightmare last Thursday, 2:00am in a NYC bar (well oiled) after finishing the AHREXPO. My wife was to arrive from Dublin on a BE award ticket for the weekend the next day. My Mobile phone rings, she informs me that they would not let her on the Plane in Dublin (7:00am) as her 4 year old British Passport was not machine readable!!!!. YIKES!!!
managed however to get the 90,000 miles and the €14.80 Tax back. Check our early from the Hotel, and change my BE upgraded M class to fly back Friday night for €150. If she had got to New York, she would probably have spent €10,000, so maybe it was a good thing!!!!!
PS. I was one of 4 in the 36 seat BE Cabin.