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Jun 11, 2017, 10:24 pm

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VH-RMD

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Originally Posted by tmac100

Yesterday on a DXB-MCT-DOH ticket the WY agent said the UAE authorities required proof of flying out of DOH before I could check in baggage through to DOH and get my boarding passes. I had to fire up my computer at check in, and retrieve my ticket (DOH-elsewhere). The agent took my e-ticket number and entered it into the check-in system and there it was.The boarding pass and baggage were allowed for the DXB-MCT-DOH flight.

Otherwise I would have been "stuck" in the UAE with no way to fly out to DOH....

That said, entering the UAE and leaving (at passport control was easy enough..

Ooooh..... that could prove annoying.

How far into the future was your onward ticket? Did it matter, would any onward ticket number do?

Last edited by VH-RMD; Jun 11, 2017 at 10:34 pm

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