Originally Posted by
1kprem
This is an interesting statement. Please advise what you think anyone needs to actually prove they took a flight if a boarding pass (paper or electronic) is insufficient? I know your example is a hypothetical about checking in and then bailing. Are we just fools for even trying to get retroactive credit if we really did take the flight given the odds are stacked against since we cannot prove we took a flight?
About the only way you could really prove that you took a flight, if you had to do so with irrefutable evidence and independent of the airline, is to have a disinterested third party take a series of timestamped pictures at the airport and on the plane. Now, obviously that’s overkill and I’m not suggesting anybody do that. But that doesn’t make anybody a fool for requesting retroactive credit, because most of the time the airline eventually figures out that you’re telling the truth. In your case, if you had no-showed at the origin, your tickets would have been canceled; and even if LH somehow messed that up, generally there would be some paper trail to show that somebody got to an airport (taxi / rideshare / train receipt, etc.). Do you have any of that?