Originally Posted by JonNYC
In other words, has anyone ever shown up at the airport with a reasonable expectation of being transported (tickets and/or reservations w/ e-tickets, etc.) and been simply told "here's your $xxx, go home."?
My example was when booking a ticket over the phone with BMI just over a year ago (booked a connecting flight for the v.cheap MAN-LAS in Biz I found out about through FT

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Got a paper ticket, PNR, everything was confirmed in checkmytrip.com, I even phoned to confirm my flight 24 hours before. Only when I got to the airport and tried to check in did I find out that the CC payment hadn't cleared so that I had to pay for the flight before I could board it.