bmi diamond club - Sequence number on bmi flights

Was boarding my domestic flight from Aberdeen to London yesterday and had the bar code on my iPhone when the gate agent asked me to show her the rest of my SMS as she wanted to see my sequence number?

First time that has happened to me and was wondering if anyone had an explanation. I actually popped into the gold lounge in terminal one and asked the agent there who said it was for an operational reason and too complicated to tell me? So I turn to the experts :p

Extra info, 5th last to board, was not upgraded which for that flight is nothing much anyway, seq no was 9 and yes it was bmi not easyjet or Ryanair.

Cheers golsquare.

Usually, it's so they can tick you off the manual list/type your number in to the computer to check off people who have boarded. Complicated, secretive stuff. ;)

Usually, it's so they can tick you off the manual list/type your number in to the computer to check off people who have boarded. Complicated, secretive stuff. ;)

It's always the simple things isn't it :) so much for the bar code scanners and high tech stuff.yours is the most logical explanation I've found online with other answers from op-ups to when you OLCI. Cheers

As mentioned above, most probably the scanners were down, therefore manual reconciliation would be in place. In order to record details the boarding or sequence number needs to be recorded and this is not visible on the bad code , at least not to a mere mortal therfore the full b/pass has to be seen. Nothing sinister !

If you are really sad (like me :p), and you check in bang on 24 hours before your flight, and provided OLCI is working, you can sometimes get Seq 001 (i.e. the first person to checkin for the flight)!

If you are really sad (like me :p), and you check in bang on 24 hours before your flight, and provided OLCI is working, you can sometimes get Seq 001 (i.e. the first person to checkin for the flight)!

I've done so a couple of times on EI (at T-30, because that's how they do it). It really isn't all that much to brag about :P

If you are really sad (like me :p), and you check in bang on 24 hours before your flight

Or if you're even sadder (like me), you can take pleasure in checking in before T-24 as part of a long connecting itinerary, knowing you're depriving other people of the seq 001 joy :D

I've done so a couple of times on EI (at T-30, because that's how they do it). It really isn't all that much to brag about :P
Why not? If you check in for a feeder and a connecting longhaul flight you can often get 001 for the latter. LH lingo is Boarding Number or BN btw. ;)

What's even worse is when you've been doing it enough you start just reading out the SEQ# to the agent when you see them looking for it!

Exactly. Got a strange look the other morning when volunteering my SEQ #.

This after telling the LHR pre-security boarding pass checkers 'it's a domestic' and standing in front of the camera before they've had a chance to speak...

This after telling the LHR pre-security boarding pass checkers 'it's a domestic' and standing in front of the camera before they've had a chance to speak...

I prefer playing that game the other way around, and stand right next to them as I hand the BP over. They usually get to "Could you.." bit of the "Could you stand in front of the camera".

I had an OS flight which boarded when their systems were down. Their backup was a sheet of paper with the aircraft seating configuration printed on it, and each seat was a sticky label with the seat number on it. Just peeled the sticker off the sheet and put it on the handwritten BP. Shame it was one of their 777-s bound for KUL and SYD - that took some time to get everyone on.

I prefer playing that game the other way around, and stand right next to them as I hand the BP over. They usually get to "Could you.." bit of the "Could you stand in front of the camera".

I had an OS flight which boarded when their systems were down. Their backup was a sheet of paper with the aircraft seating configuration printed on it, and each seat was a sticky label with the seat number on it. Just peeled the sticker off the sheet and put it on the handwritten BP. Shame it was one of their 777-s bound for KUL and SYD - that took some time to get everyone on.

I have seen such manual/sticker check-ins many times, including at LHR, DME and SVO.