Companion and Sky Priority
Jan 9, 2018, 11:37 am
#17
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Africa
Programs: FB Gold
Posts: 34
Last two-three years I have never had to tell my wife or daughter, even the three of us travelling together, to take the long que. Sky Priority has been extended to them each time, no matter the outstation, CDG or AMS.
Lounge access also.
Lounge access also.
Jan 9, 2018, 11:52 am
#18
Join Date: May 2009
Location: AMS
Posts: 2,064
Not according to SkyTeam:
Actually I think FB is trying to say the same thing but wrote it somewhat more ambiguously.
SkyTeam Elite Plus members are welcome to invite a guest to join them in the lounge. The guest must also be travelling on a flight operated by a SkyTeam member airline, but it doesn’t need to be the same flight.
Actually I think FB is trying to say the same thing but wrote it somewhat more ambiguously.
Jan 16, 2018, 6:40 am
#19
Join Date: May 2017
Location: MAN
Programs: FB Platinum
Posts: 313
At the weekend, I was booked on a Z class international flight into CDG but was handed a Y sub-class BP for the second leg (CDG-MAN in AF coded FlyBe). Despite having 'PLAT' printed on the BP for MAN, I was refused entry to the SkyPriority security lane at CDG 2E. The normal line was huge, so I scrabbled around in my wallet but couldn't find my FB card. I finally fished out my MAN 'meet and greet' parking key-return card (which handily has a black and silver design) and immediately received an apology and was ushered through with my partner (FB silver)...we had no problem getting into the lounge, fortunately.
Jan 17, 2018, 5:53 am
#20
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: NL
Programs: FB Gold
Posts: 42
In AMS just print your bp with SkyPriority twice and hand one to your companion. Let him go through the automatic gates at security first and then follow. Works every time. Also works in BRU, OSL, CPH and BCN. And all other places where they check manually.
Jan 17, 2018, 10:52 am
#21
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: mostly not far from AMS, otherwise NUE
Programs: FB Silver, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,381
Entering an airport security check using someone else's boarding pass may constitute an office or worse, and this behaviour most likely constitutes a violation of the terms & conditions of the FFP involved, and in general is just plain inconsiderate and a dick move.
Jan 17, 2018, 3:32 pm
#22
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: NL
Programs: FB Gold
Posts: 42
Look, I get it, it is not the way it should work, but it does.
Is it my fault that nobody checks bp against an ID, hell you can even get on board a Shengen flight as nobody checks your ID when boarding. So, again, this is not the way it should work, but it does. And some people take advantage of this.
Is it my fault that nobody checks bp against an ID, hell you can even get on board a Shengen flight as nobody checks your ID when boarding. So, again, this is not the way it should work, but it does. And some people take advantage of this.
Jan 18, 2018, 6:59 am
#24
Join Date: May 2009
Location: AMS
Posts: 2,064
Jan 18, 2018, 2:08 pm
#25
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: AMS
Programs: FB plat for life
Posts: 316
Jan 18, 2018, 2:31 pm
#26
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: GOT
Programs: KL Plat
Posts: 484
In December I assume it was a new person working on the gate, and another employee specifically told her not to check IDs for the KL flight.
I think the only time I can remember needing to show ID at boarding on a KL flight within Schengen was departing CDG. I guess it's up to the airline if they don't want to check IDs but the airport can always enforce ID checks if they so wish.
Jan 19, 2018, 6:54 am
#28
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: France
Programs: FB Plat for Life, UAMP, BAEC, Accor ALL Platinum, Marriott silver, Hilton, Meliá silver.
Posts: 3,120
Within Schengen, the norm is "no ID checks".
In Paris, it used to be the case till the Prefecture ordered them back.
Equally, leaving France from secondary airports to Schengen countries still mean going through police passport control despite the lifting of the state of emergency (the cop I asked to said it was still in place
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Jan 20, 2018, 5:18 pm
#29
Join Date: May 2009
Location: AMS
Posts: 2,064
Interesting. I thought that would be gone by now -- there are not supposed to be border controls between Schengen countries. This sounds like it's starting to become illegal.
Jan 21, 2018, 8:57 am
#30
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: HAG
Programs: Der 5* FTL
Posts: 8,065
This week, I wasn't checked anymore.