Elite Transfers Desk
May 2, 2011, 12:24 pm
#1
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 32
Elite Transfers Desk
Hi,
I'm pretty new to Sky Team, and I see at the Flying Blue benefits that in CDG and in AMS there's a Elite Transfer Desk. I have not found what exactly is, I assume that helps in transfer, but how works exactly? Makes sense for intraeuropean flights?
Thanks of a newbie
I'm pretty new to Sky Team, and I see at the Flying Blue benefits that in CDG and in AMS there's a Elite Transfer Desk. I have not found what exactly is, I assume that helps in transfer, but how works exactly? Makes sense for intraeuropean flights?
Thanks of a newbie
May 2, 2011, 12:38 pm
#2
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Dubai
Programs: EK Gold, FB Silver
Posts: 318
As far as I know it only applies for transit passengers. I'm not 100% familiar with it as well, but you can get a (new) boarding pass there (in case you didn't get a boarding pass at your port of embarkment) or you can change you flight to a later one. Also useful in case of cancellation or late arrival of your 1st flight so that they can book you on another flight to reach your destination.
May 4, 2011, 7:16 am
#3
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: MCI
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Mostly used for getting boarding pass for your connecting flight when your initial flight carrier can't print boarding passes for all legs at check-in. For example, flying ATL-(DL)-LHR-(KQ)-NBO, Delta can't print the KQ boarding pass for the Kenya Airways flight, so you have to get it from the transfers desk.
Jul 15, 2011, 1:02 pm
#5
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: AMS, GVA
Programs: Oneworld sapphire (IB)
Posts: 253
One addition however:
an elite transfer desk seems not to be existing, I asked it the other time (at 2 AF info desks) at CDG while being in transfer but the ladies had no idea at all that a desk like that existed.
an elite transfer desk seems not to be existing, I asked it the other time (at 2 AF info desks) at CDG while being in transfer but the ladies had no idea at all that a desk like that existed.
Jul 15, 2011, 1:07 pm
#6
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Jul 15, 2011, 1:15 pm
#7
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I connected through AMS once when KLM was having a computer meltdown and wanted to try to change to an earlier connecting flight (this was before I realized that the airport was having a problem). At the main schengen transfer desk, I got my number and was the next customer served. I later learned that some nonelite coach passengers were waiting hours for an agent, frequently missing their connections while waiting for someone to print a boarding pass.
In the same transfer desk areas, you'll find kiosks that frequently can print boarding passes and handle other simple transactions. You can also ask for help with some of these issues in lounges but they may send you to the transfer desk or to the gate.
Jul 17, 2011, 6:22 am
#8
Join Date: Feb 2010
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It's not exactly signposted as an elite transfer desk. At CDG or AMS airside, go to one of the main transfer desks for AF/KL and look for signs for their elites, premium passengers Affaires, WBC, etc.), and SkyTeam elites. In some areas, it's a separate line, probably with a rug, and in others where you take a number for service, you find the correct machine that prints number tickets for elites. In the take-a-number system, your wait will be much less than nonelites.