Originally Posted by
henilrocks2001
So you're saying that as soon as I pass immigration, there's no turning around? There's gotta be something else.... I mean if they get you in the airport, and you're at the gate- and they call a cancelled flight for some some reason - to get you on another airline you have to exit immigration? I'm not sure as much to the terms as I've always flown emirates and we've never had any problems- but now I'm traveling by myself - and that too as a teen, on United Airlines.... Things don't sound right to me... But let's even consider the fact that the flight was cancelled- then what would the United staff take in consideration for the 250-300 passengers? Would they relocate the passengers on alternatives? I'm not sure though if the Mumbai based staff is either United Staff or GVK staff- depending on that too they may make decisions differently right? I know Emirates has their own staff working and I've seen Korean Air staff - but the others are part of Mumbai airport, so would they handle the situation differently? For United at least? Or is it just following the company terms?
This is my understanding, though I've never had to go through the process myself. I understand that you are marked as exiting on specific airline flight XXX and you need to be re-processed to leave on a different flight. It never happened to me, but that's what I was lead to believe. If that's the case, no reputable airline is going to allow you to board without the proper exit work completed - in fact, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a paperwork check before each international flight to verify that all pax were cleared properly from exiting the country on that flight. It's not that there's no turning around, per say, but you can't just get rebooked and show up at a different gate to board - there is a procedure you have to go through.
There's a thread here somewhere from a couple of years ago where a UA flight did get canceled out of BOM last minute, and I believe that they had to arrange with immigration to get all the passengers back to "cancel" their exit, and I think that process took a couple of hours.