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Mar 11, 2018 | 8:35 am

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Originally Posted by tbeard

Thanks...probably poor wording on my part. You dont think there is a chance he could be denied boarding in SEA or CDG because of the 100 days until his return flight? I thought of booking him a mileage ticket from Italy in say 60 days....then once he is in Italy just cancel it and have the miles put back in.

Not really, they check for a valid ID and BP (that shows DOCS OK). On average they may spend like 5 seconds and then it's 'next please'.
At CDG they scan but also here they generally don't spend more then 5-7 seconds for each pax.

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