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E-Tickets Not Allowed at Airport, Flying with Priceline
Our airport now requires a real boarding pass; an e-ticket receipt is not
good enough anymore. Will this be a problem with Priceline? Someone tells me (I've never flown, much less used Priceline) that Priceline doesn't do boarding passes. LRH |
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E-Tickets Not Allowed at Airport, Flying with Priceline
In article KV66c.36967$Zp.27074@fed1read07,
"Larry R Harrison Jr" wrote: Our airport now requires a real boarding pass; an e-ticket receipt is not good enough anymore. Will this be a problem with Priceline? Someone tells me (I've never flown, much less used Priceline) that Priceline doesn't do boarding passes. you'll always need a boardin pass |
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E-Tickets Not Allowed at Airport, Flying with Priceline
Okay fine. So how does that work with someone like Priceline?
"Not the Karl Orff" wrote in message ... In article KV66c.36967$Zp.27074@fed1read07, "Larry R Harrison Jr" wrote: Our airport now requires a real boarding pass; an e-ticket receipt is not good enough anymore. Will this be a problem with Priceline? Someone tells me (I've never flown, much less used Priceline) that Priceline doesn't do boarding passes. you'll always need a boardin pass |
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E-Tickets Not Allowed at Airport, Flying with Priceline
Listen carefully.....get out of your car, enter the terminal, go to the
appropriate ticket counter with your photo ID, they will consult their records and, if you are there, they will issue you a boarding pass. (The Priceline aspect is irrelevant) Actually, if you have an airline reservation number from Priceline, you may be able to print your own boarding pass at home. Several airlines now offer this, and you usually get a few FF miles, too. "Larry R Harrison Jr" wrote in message news:WU76c.37280$Zp.11402@fed1read07... Okay fine. So how does that work with someone like Priceline? "Not the Karl Orff" wrote in message ... In article KV66c.36967$Zp.27074@fed1read07, "Larry R Harrison Jr" wrote: Our airport now requires a real boarding pass; an e-ticket receipt is not good enough anymore. Will this be a problem with Priceline? Someone tells me (I've never flown, much less used Priceline) that Priceline doesn't do boarding passes. you'll always need a boardin pass |
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E-Tickets Not Allowed at Airport, Flying with Priceline
Larry R Harrison Jr wrote: Okay fine. So how does that work with someone like Priceline? Go to the ticket counter and pick up a boarding pass, or use electronic check in to get a boarding pass, if available. |
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E-Tickets Not Allowed at Airport, Flying with Priceline
"Larry R Harrison Jr" wrote in message news:WU76c.37280$Zp.11402@fed1read07...
"Not the Karl Orff" wrote in message ... In article KV66c.36967$Zp.27074@fed1read07, "Larry R Harrison Jr" wrote: Our airport now requires a real boarding pass; an e-ticket receipt is not good enough anymore. Will this be a problem with Priceline? Someone tells me (I've never flown, much less used Priceline) that Priceline doesn't do boarding passes. you'll always need a boardin pass Okay fine. So how does that work with someone like Priceline? You are confusing an e-ticket with a boarding pass. A boarding pass is a document which "allows" you on the aircraft and frequently indicates which seat you have been assigned. A ticket, "e" or otherwise indicates you have made a purchase on a specific flight. It doesn NOT indicate you have yet been assigned a seat nor actually that you are permitted to board the aircraft. (Overbooking and all). Priceline sells tickets, not boarding passes. Boarding passes are issued (not sold) by the airlines and ONLY the airlines. Airports have variable regulations regarding the possession of a boarding pass prior to passing through the passenger security screening area. In the case where one is required to do so, they usually can be obtained at the ticket counter which resides prior to passing through security screening. Some airlines allow them to be obtained on line, or at self service kiosks. These boarding passes are available regardless of how the ticket was purchased, or if it is an e-ticket or otherwise. (Truth is, really, that there are ONLY e-tickets these days. If your reservation isn't in the computer, they aren't going to issue you a boarding pass until it is. They may create the reservation upon presentation of a paper ticket, but you ain't going anywhere until they do). |
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E-Tickets Not Allowed at Airport, Flying with Priceline
How do they read it at the gate?
TSA screeners are specially fitted with visual receptors, generally above and to each side of their noses. -- http://mattdrury.net/travel (since 1984) |
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E-Tickets Not Allowed at Airport, Flying with Priceline
Ulf Kutzner wrote in message ...
"User 1.nospam" schrieb: Actually, if you have an airline reservation number from Priceline, you may be able to print your own boarding pass at home. Several airlines now offer this How do they read it at the gate? The boarding pass you print on your printer has bar codes, which are read by the scanner at the gate. The agent at the gate will check your ID if you print your own boarding pass. |
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E-Tickets Not Allowed at Airport, Flying with Priceline
Ulf Kutzner wrote: "User 1.nospam" schrieb: Actually, if you have an airline reservation number from Priceline, you may be able to print your own boarding pass at home. Several airlines now offer this How do they read it at the gate? Bar code reader. |
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E-Tickets Not Allowed at Airport, Flying with Priceline
mtravelkay schrieb:
be able to print your own boarding pass at home. Several airlines now offer this How do they read it at the gate? Bar code reader. I see. Thanks, ULF |
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