Just reading the (relatively) recent comments on a rather long LAX-SYD flight..
No, no-one asked my wife nor I about the hotel booking in JNB at any point in this saga.
Thanks,
BTP
Thanks for confirming.
Although other FTers seem to claim agents are omniscient, I still find it hard to believe they would act on this information about your hotel bookings without bringing it up with your missus before telling her they are denying her boarding.
Actually for complete transparency, and as many people have raised it in this lengthy thread, this is verbatim the advice I gave my wife in a lengthy WhatsApp message (I had forgotten I sent her this message in all the drama which followed!): Was this unreasonable/did I set her up to fail?
3. Tips for at the airport/on the way:
- Your flight leaves at 21:25; you must enter security by 20:50; try to get there by 20:00, to avoid any problems!
OK glad I'm not the only husband who writes the wife detailed check in and connection notes (I drew my wife a detailed T2F-T2F FRA connection map, cos I find FRA official website's map hard to read and I knowingly booked her into a 50 min IB-JL exit Schengen connection)
Now with retrospect, we now write
"as early as you and your children practically can" as the time to get to T5 in place of 20:00.