Originally Posted by stevebintley

Okay this isn’t strictly BA, but you’re all experts and the only airline which has provided the one exception to my question….

Sometimes during my travels for various reasons I’ve been unable to obtain a boarding pass via the relevant airlines app, but still had to turn up at the airport a number of hours before departure. Obviously no issue at larger airports like Heathrow, but at smaller outstations this often means I’m doing laps of the uninspiring check-in hall until desks open. My most recent experience of this was at Brisbane - flying QR on HBO but four hours prior to departure and not having a mobile BP I had to wait. There were many staff at the QF desks, and I asked a number if they could print me a BP; everyone said no it wasn’t possible. I was hoping it would be more possible with them being another OW airline.

I’ve had one exception to the “no” response, and that was flying back to LHR from Pristina, where a random desk with an agent was able to produce a paper BP with no real questioning.

My question is - is it truly impossible for another airline desk to print a paper BP for another airline? If so how could PRN do it? If it is possible, other than visa etc concerns are there other issues? Is there some special ‘language’ I could use in the future to convince the agent?