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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FWAAA: Do like I do: Buy a refundable ticket, check in, and then change your mind (as in don't take the trip). Refund ticket - and everyone is happy.</font> Also, can't you just use a lounge membership card to get through security? I don't have any memberships, but I've heard that you can ust flash your Red Carpet card since you might be going there for a meeting. cnk |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by sowalsky: You may note have seen the last sentence of my post, where I said I haven't tried whether this works or not. </font> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> What I have had to do is use the online-checking to print out a boarding pass to Adobe Acrobat, save it as a PDF, then delete name, date, and city-specific info and replace with blank fields for me to fill in with the correct formatting. </font> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> I'm not a terrorist.... just exposing a hole in their security facade anyway.</font> [This message has been edited by Dr. Zhivago (edited 01-21-2003).] |
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Has worked just fine for me too. <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FWAAA: Do like I do: Buy a refundable ticket, check in, and then change your mind (as in don't take the trip). Refund ticket - and everyone is happy.</font> ------------------ "Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by sowalsky: You may note have seen the last sentence of my post, where I said I haven't tried whether this works or not. But by just requiring a boarding pass of any sort, without checking its validity, they're opening the system up to forgery! I'm not a terrorist.... just exposing a hole in their security facade anyway.</font> But how many people are going to go through the trouble of making them? Not many. So the number of people who need to go through security is STILL massively decreased from the time when anybody could go through. And THAT'S the point of this requirement. To lessen the number of people who go through security, so that there's time to check more thoroughly those that DO go through. Ed |
I hope that we NEVER are allowed to go back to the old system where throngs of not travelling people waited at gates taking up seats, crowding the jetway and otherwise taking up space making a stressfull experience that much more stressful.
I agree with the poster about the mormon missionaries returning to many different friends and family members with balloons, signs and cameras crowding the jetway while trying to get off the plane. Its already crowded enough at the jetway when trying to board with F class or elite members as those who are not boarding at that time still stand in the jet way. Imagine how bad it will be if family and friends can crowd the jetway as well. It can only make the security lines longer as well. I just do not see any benefit other than someone spending another hour or so with their friend or family. If there is a real need to go to the gate with someone (child, elderly etc) a pass can be issued. Some people state that its nice to spend time with friends or family at the gate but that should not over ride other factors. I would not support allowing anyone but ticketed pax into the past security. Just my 2 cents worth |
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