Originally Posted by
violist
My friend A (who will chime in here if he chooses to do so). deals with the issue in this
way. He marches up to the ticket counter and says, we can do this the easy way or the
hard way. Either you issue me a gate pass, or I buy the refundable ticket. The GA issues
the gate pass.
Hmm....clearly, I have been doing this the hard way.
I don't know why airlines are so reluctant to issue a gate pass, but I might just try this next time....