NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/travel/air/6283

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Subject: RE:Questions on Boarding Passes
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:27:53 GMT
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If you have booked a flight and then called to get a seat assignment, you
do not need to have a boarding pass in your hand.  When you go to the
airport, you can pass the long lines out front and go to the gate.  At the
gate, they will print your boarding pass.  By the way the gate has the most
control over which seat you get, like exit row or handicapped seats that
are not being used.

You also mentioned that having a boarding pass is safer, it might be, but I
have found, and I am on a plane a couple times a week, that possession is
9/10'ths of the law.  For example-- You get to the airport and then board the
plane to find someone in your seat.  You both have a boarding pass.  You call
the flight attendant, and at this time people are getting pissed since you
are standing in the aisle.  After about five minutes, the flight attendant
comes back and says there was a mixup and take any empty seat.  They are
usually more interested in getting the plane pushed back rather than if you
are in the right seat.  Therefore get on the plane first/early!

Hope this helps