Found Boarding Passes
May 6, 2019, 1:40 pm
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I have 2 phones, an apple watch and an ipad with me.
If I am clumsy enough to break both phone, discharge my ipad and my watch is stolen, I guess I could be in trouble and probably don't even deserve to fly.
Sarcasm aside
In this day and age, most everyone is 100000 times more likely to leave their wallet than their cell device, I would still rather "Chance it" than leave my boarding pass laying around.
That said, if doo doo happens, you can always have one printed, I just make than plan B
If I am clumsy enough to break both phone, discharge my ipad and my watch is stolen, I guess I could be in trouble and probably don't even deserve to fly.
Sarcasm aside
In this day and age, most everyone is 100000 times more likely to leave their wallet than their cell device, I would still rather "Chance it" than leave my boarding pass laying around.
That said, if doo doo happens, you can always have one printed, I just make than plan B
But I don't get folks being so judgemental about this choice (not meaning you in particular, Hipplewm
).It's not as if someone said they still use an iPod
May 6, 2019, 1:48 pm
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May 6, 2019, 2:48 pm
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That said I don't see the point of a piece of paper. I have found way more boarding passes lying about in the airport than I have wallets or phones. At no point, is your phone going dead, going to hamper you getting on the plane as you can have one printed at any time up to and including while boarding.
My parents (75yo) clung to their paper boarding passes until they traveled with me once and they haven't even contemplated paper since, their like having everything on their phone.
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May 6, 2019, 3:22 pm
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I do as well, but luckily my company allows electronic passes, so I screenshot it directly from my phone and submit it.
I even wrote it was Sarcasm to make sure people took it as such.....
That said I don't see the point of a piece of paper. I have found way more boarding passes lying about in the airport than I have wallets or phones. At no point, is your phone going dead, going to hamper you getting on the plane as you can have one printed at any time up to and including while boarding.
My parents (75yo) clung to their paper boarding passes until they traveled with me once and they haven't even contemplated paper since, their like having everything on their phone.
I even wrote it was Sarcasm to make sure people took it as such.....
That said I don't see the point of a piece of paper. I have found way more boarding passes lying about in the airport than I have wallets or phones. At no point, is your phone going dead, going to hamper you getting on the plane as you can have one printed at any time up to and including while boarding.
My parents (75yo) clung to their paper boarding passes until they traveled with me once and they haven't even contemplated paper since, their like having everything on their phone.
Did you mean you don't actually carry all those devices?
Sorry, missed that...
Still, there seems to be a clear inference that people who carry paper BP's are some kind of Luddite defectives. I don't really think that's warranted because people make different choices than you on this really minor issue. In any event, electronics passes were no life-changing revelation to me. But I'm not that old either.
For the record, I'm agnostic. If I'm around a printer, and want it as a receipt, I'll print it. If not, I'll carry it solely on my phone. But I only carry one device, ever.
May 7, 2019, 3:41 am
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We on FT all realise that BPs contain private information, but the average person regards it, once used, as an unnecessary piece of paper and therefore gets rid of it. To my mind, it's incumbent on the airlines to print boarding passes that, if found by a crook, won't permit said crook to foul up the original owner.
May 7, 2019, 12:25 pm
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Most people are not travel-savvy and, to them, they've used the boarding pass and it no longer serves a purpose. It doesn't occur to them that it actually contains personal information that can be used to cause harm.
May 7, 2019, 8:22 pm
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Do some airlines restrict some of the info from the print and leave it up to their agents to get the necessary info
from the bar code?
What information does the passenger really need?
In the original thread opening I was surprised to find the ticket number and record locator but figured it was needed for an intnl trip for someone else.
from the bar code?
What information does the passenger really need?
In the original thread opening I was surprised to find the ticket number and record locator but figured it was needed for an intnl trip for someone else.
May 10, 2019, 2:26 pm
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People may worry about boarding passes, but what can be done with discarded/dropped/listed baggage tags (and/or the info from them) is also not necessarily a joke.
May 10, 2019, 3:23 pm
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Even if not printed out in roman characters and numbers, most of the information can be found in the 2D barcode anyway...
