How much baggage do you intend to carry? With check and extra bag charges, you'll need cash or a credit card, and if your wallet's stolen, the extra copies in your bags will do no good, because you won't have cash or cards to pay to haul them

Clause 534.1.1 of every airline's fare rules reads as follows or nigh unto it....

"We reserve the right to change the rules based upon the circumstances, and the rules shall be that which our rep states them to be at that moment, not necessarily applicable an hour later."

Copies of the rules are for later, when you're writing threatening emails, demand letters and briefing counsel on the law suit.


Far better would be a working cellphone to talk to a call center. Even after being 10th or 156th in line, talking to gate agents has about the same effect as did the Czech governments negotiations with Berlin in 1938. Having decided what was "expeditious", the German government acted accordingly. Soon after, there was no Czech government at all. That was followed by fewer Czechs, especially those who wanted to debate either policy or practices.


Not a bad idea....

I applaud you. If the a/c lavs run out of toilet paper or hand towels, you'll not be wanting. Meanwhile, the dreaded "It says what we want it to say!" rule, Clause 534.1.1 cited above, also applies to lounge access. Arguing until you're blue in the face, chewing the carpet, loudly reading the rules, even keeling over with apoplexy, are ineffective in the face of a gate attendant who has strong convictions (and can get you convicted by calling an airport cop who after the choke hold leaves you breathless and the Taser-trembles have subsided from outright convulsions to just a tremor or two, will stick you in a holding cell with no windows until after the last flight of the week has departed).


I find that clean socks and underwear go farther than obsessive/compulsiveness when traveling by air. Don't sweat the small stuff. Go with the flow. Save self-immolation for moments when it really counts.