Originally Posted by
Genmills23
And for those reading this, Always scan your passports and do not travel with a ripped passport.
A scanned passport does not get you into a country. If you do scan your passport, please keep that document safe! (I.e. don't keep it as a regular file in My Documents and then take your computer to a store to get it
fixed.)
There is an important lesson here: do not toy around with passports (or other travel documents) if you're going to travel abroad. A DL employee may let you get on the plane (because oddly enough there is no official passport check when leaving the US, unlike EVERYWHERE else), but gov't officials do NOT like messed up passports.
Originally Posted by
Genmills23
Me an my wife were brought to the mobile computer at the checkin counter with a delta supervisor and he coached us on how to lie to customs. He told us he could lose his job and not to say anything because he was a father of 2 and he wouldn't want it to come back onto him. We kept saying we do not want to go if we are going to be held up in Mexico ( WHO WANTS THAT?!).
You've certainly been through enough trouble, and I know you don't want to hear it, but this is your fault. You knew the risk involved and went ahead anyway. I'm sure you were just trying to be nice and protect that guy, and it's unfortunate that in doing so you got in trouble, but you understood that you ran that risk.
Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
ADDED. I would expect DL to also give you some redeemable miles for your inconvenience.
Huh?!
You expect DL to give the OP some UA miles?
(We all know SkyPesos are hardly
redeemable.)