Dont Want Denied Boarding For No Show
Jun 22, 2009, 2:33 pm
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2009
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Dont Want Denied Boarding For No Show
If I print my ticket out (-24hrs) prior to flight thats all I have to do correct.
I am not checking luggage, only taking carry on.
I can just proceed to my gate and wait for the line up then show my printed ticket at the ramp entrance correct?
I dont have to check in at any counter? My -24hr ticket printing is my confimation in essence that I am there? Or should I still touch base with a counter.
Regards
I am not checking luggage, only taking carry on.
I can just proceed to my gate and wait for the line up then show my printed ticket at the ramp entrance correct?
I dont have to check in at any counter? My -24hr ticket printing is my confimation in essence that I am there? Or should I still touch base with a counter.
Regards
Jun 22, 2009, 3:33 pm
#3
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Print out your BP, go through security, go to the gate, line up when the gate agent calls your boarding group, hand gate agent your BP, board the plane. Done.
Jun 22, 2009, 3:35 pm
#5
Join Date: Jul 2008
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No technical/technological reason, no.
Jun 22, 2009, 4:06 pm
#8
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If the flight is oversold, or there are not enough seats to accomodate standbys, they can start giving your seat away and deny you boarding 10 minutes before scheduled departure even if you have a boarding pass.
Jun 24, 2009, 7:01 am
#9
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Jun 24, 2009, 7:46 am
#10
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I must be missing something. Since the advent of boarding numbers, why would you need to be there even 5 minutes before boarding actually begins? You just go to your appropriate place in line and board. Getting there early doesn't move you up in line, does it?
Jun 24, 2009, 11:27 pm
#12
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Most of my flights start boarding exactly 20 minutes before scheduled departure. But occasionally, if the equipment and crew is there, boarding will start 30 minutes before. (That usually catches me out -- if I'm even at the gate that early, it's usually with laptop and power cable unpacked and spread out.)