So, I usually fly United and never any carrier out of *alliance. I usually do extensive multi-segment trips domestically...attempting to pile on my EQS. My last trip was a 9 segment trip...3 segments to Chicago (spent 2 days there) and 3 to Greenville then 3 back to Phoenix. My trip before that was 8 segments rountrip from PHX-BNA.

On my way back to PHX, I had a Continental flight from Houston to PHX. The gate agent scanned my boarding pass and I saw a red x on her computer. She then tried it again and it failed. She told me to step out of line, give her my ID and another gate agent went to a computer and entered information, gave me back my ID and my boarding pass was accepted.

This bothered me a bit, and it never happened before. Anybody know what happened?

As this is CO-specific, please follow as the thread moves to our Continental Airlines forum. Ocn Vw 1K, Moderator, TravelBuzz.

do you have a common name? I used to have a very common last name. On an AA flight from DFW to San Jose, CR apparently some other lady with the same last name had checked in as me, changed my seat away from the group I was with, and tried to change the FF number on the ticket. When I tried to board (with a BP in my name with my old seat) it came up that I had already boarded and the seat on the BP was different than my current seat. I was pulled aside until they could pull her off the plane, verify who she really was, then get me a seat.

...She noticed the FF number was different but not the first name! That lady had been stranded in DFW for a couple days.

You'd think on an international flight someone would have paid attention during checkin.

common first name, not common last name

I was wondering if this may have been related to the fact that I did a lot of segments and they wanted to verify it was me? I dunno. I just find it weird. Or maybe since I never flew CO they had to add a profile for me?

Something like that.