Hey all,

I had an interesting situation happen to me last week. Since I am skywards silver, I am able to check in at the business class area of the Dubai terminal. This alone, can save you over an hour of time as the security is efficient and there are no lines for check in.

Anyway, I arrived at the airport and my ticket says Emirates flight xxxx to Muscat. Everything was going well until I went to check in. Sorry sir, this is an Oman Air flight and you need to check in with them. I asked her, but the ticket says Emirates and no where does it say Oman Air. Mind you at this point I had less than 45 minutes to the flight took off. Basically, they wouldn't let me check in.

However, I made a big fuss and they called Oman air and made them give me a manual ticket. This saved me from missing the flight. Is this the norm? I expect to check in at foreign airports at non-emirates counters, but when in Dubai, can I not check in at the Emirates counters, especially if the ticket has an Emirates flight number.

Billman