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Old Feb 9, 2016, 5:35 am
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Schiehallion
 
Join Date: Sep 2015
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Originally Posted by BerksFlyer
MLA ground staff are making a right farce of things here. The check in was done manually and the inevitable wring headcount has now occurred. The ground staff are walking through the plane checking every single passport again to match it up to their list. The thoroughness of this check is laughable though because they looked at my passport and didn't bother looking at Mrs BFs and only ticked mine and infant BFs name off the list. When I went to correct them they got all stressed and arsey!! I am in row 4 so it will only get worse as they go back from here!!
Flew back from MLA on Sunday and saw a number of people with entirely hand-written boarding passes. Then, the inevitable circus on board as they tried to count (it took 3 attempts).

It didn't fill me with confidence....

ETA - this came after the ~30 meter bus ride.
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