Boarding the wrong plane
Feb 6, 2006 | 2:42 pm
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Originally Posted by cpx
You are right.. its was WBC... on KLM
It was Royal Jordanian @ JFK. Even my friend was surprised..
It was Royal Jordanian @ JFK. Even my friend was surprised..
I reemmber back in the day when I was younger at the old T-4 International Terminal, there was this hall way you could get to that would take you from International Arrivals into the departure lounge, without going through security...
Those were different days gone by ...
-Vincent
Feb 6, 2006 | 3:51 pm
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Originally Posted by smartinez
I'd say about 50% or more of my flights from LAX aren't scanned; this flight wasn't. I think all gates have scanners, they just don't use them. Wonder why.
Feb 6, 2006 | 4:18 pm
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Originally Posted by kingalien
Web boarding passes are manually entered into the system.
Yesterday at SFO my BP was not scanned, but that was because I walked down the EA lane after the rest of the EA pax had already gone through. As a courtesy, they ripped my pass and let me proceed right through rather than waiting to scan it. They were scanning ALL of the others, though. I've not had a BP not scanned right away in a LONG time.
Feb 6, 2006 | 4:21 pm
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Originally Posted by ijgordon
And even when they do, I imagine they could miss something like this -- somehow AA (who was scanning) let a woman on board a recent flight with a bad seat assignment (I had the same one -- in FC of course). I would have thought the machines would pick that up.
Feb 6, 2006 | 8:24 pm
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My flights generally go from EWR to a non-hub. In the non-hubs I rarely see a scanner. Big mess at MCO the other weekend where they don't have scanners. Because of weather delays three CO 757's going to EWR at adjacent gates were makeing announcements at the same time with very close actual boarding times. People got on the wrong plane and some where approaching hysterics. Some ended up missing their flight as they wonder over to the incorrect gate as I assumed they looked at the monitors incorrectly and didn't know there flight number (very few elites at MCO)
Feb 7, 2006 | 7:09 pm
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Originally Posted by ijgordon
And separately, I have noticed that even in EWR they don't always scan the BPs.
And even when they do, I imagine they could miss something like this -- somehow AA (who was scanning) let a woman on board a recent flight with a bad seat assignment (I had the same one -- in FC of course). I would have thought the machines would pick that up.
And even when they do, I imagine they could miss something like this -- somehow AA (who was scanning) let a woman on board a recent flight with a bad seat assignment (I had the same one -- in FC of course). I would have thought the machines would pick that up.