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Old Aug 30, 1999 | 9:50 am
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In Flight C/C Processing

While waiting in line for the restroom on a flight Saturday I was reading over the shoulder of a FA at the employee newsletter. There was a full page article about accepting credit cards in flight for headsets, drinks, and duty free items. They are testing it on some flights but it didn't say which and when.
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Old Aug 30, 1999 | 10:11 am
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Now that you raise the subject.

I've always wondered how an airline does proper accounting of these incidental charges.

How do they know if the Beer was purchased by a coach passenger or given to a first class passenger.

I'm sure that the vast majority of airline employees are honest, but this always seemed like a problem to me.

Maybe its just the New Yawker in me, trying to figure an angle
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Old Aug 30, 1999 | 2:22 pm
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I saw a USAirways form yesterday on a flight. Looked like a standard form for all F/As, but instead of writing down the take he just wrote F/C in big letters across the bottom of the page.

I guess there's no way to ensure honesty, but it looks like on USAirways they use similar forms.
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Old Aug 30, 1999 | 3:24 pm
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dg1:

See just my point. How do they aduit this,
you don't get a receipt in coach when you buy a beer.
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Old Aug 30, 1999 | 9:49 pm
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I'm sure they use beginning and ending inventories, and rely on a variance based on # of FC passengers.

Probably similar to what most bars use.

As for in-flight CC, I vaguely recall hearing about Virgin Atlantic's plans to put in credit-card driven slot machines. No idea if it was actually done - I'm sure someone here can correct me if I'm wrong!


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Old Aug 31, 1999 | 11:19 pm
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...and the old People's Express had you pay on board with a credit card. I remember the woman behind me trying to insist that "Sears is a major credit card"!
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