OT - Airline ticketing

..Blueskies. wrote:
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Automated kiosks are fine, but you still have to have a 'credit
card' with a correctly spelled name on it so it will match. Many folks don't have this and they
have to deal with a
human.

You can check in online without a credit card.

".Blueskies." wrote in message
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...Many of the big guys think they have to do all the airplane maintenance
and that sort of thing when the thing they should be doing is turning the
planes around and keeping them in the air, full capital utilization...

Interesting outlook.

"John Gaquin" wrote in message . ..
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: ...Many of the big guys think they have to do all the airplane maintenance
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Southwest business model...

..Blueskies. wrote:
"John Gaquin" wrote in message . ..
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: ".Blueskies." wrote in message
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: ...Many of the big guys think they have to do all the airplane maintenance
: and that sort of thing when the thing they should be doing is turning the
: planes around and keeping them in the air, full capital utilization...
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Southwest business model...


Don't even get me started on Southwest. I can't even get them to return
my calls regarding their maintenance. Personally, I think they need to
worry a little bit more about their maintenance and a little less on
turning them around.

".Blueskies." wrote in message

Southwest business model...



Southwest keeps their planes moving *instead* of maintaining them?

On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:32:56 -0500, Emily
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You can check in online without a credit card.

That can be difficult for the return trip, however!

Virgin Atlantic (which has "brilliant" customer service!) says that
you need a credit card for automated check-in. But in fact you don't;
you seem to need your passport. It worked a charm when I flew from
Boston to London, but not when I returned: the machine gave me an
incorrect first name, so I had to go through the (slow) line for a
human.

Except for Virgin, and sometimes with Virgin, I've had to go through
humans for every trans-Atlantic flight this year. American is
absolutely the pits: I was actually in line for an hour and 45 minutes
in BOS en route to Cork, whose identifier seems to be ORK. People were
crying in the line.

United always seems to work well for me, though I haven't flown it
internationally.

And why wouldn't you have the credit card with you that you bought
your ticket with, since that information is given to you at the time
of purchase? In one case last year, going to Iceland, I'd changed
cards, but I saved out the expired one for the purpose of checking in.
But in that case also I didn't need it, but Icelandair also requires
one to check in with humans (nice humans, in that case).



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On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:34:23 GMT, ".Blueskies."
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Southwest business model.

Yet curiously Southwest has the friendliest customer service of any
airline I've flown in recent years, with the possible exception of BMI
(British Midlands), another el cheapo carrier.



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Cub Driver wrote:
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And why wouldn't you have the credit card with you that you bought
your ticket with, since that information is given to you at the time
of purchase?

The last company I worked for booked tickets through out agent...so I
didn't have the card (now I have a corporate card that I buy tickets
with, so it's not an issue). My parents have bought me several tickets,
too...so again, I don't have the credit card. HOWEVER, it's nevr been
an issue with checking in, even internationally.

"Emily" wrote in message
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Cub Driver wrote:
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And why wouldn't you have the credit card with you that you bought
your ticket with, since that information is given to you at the time
of purchase?

The last company I worked for booked tickets through out agent...so I
didn't have the card (now I have a corporate card that I buy tickets with,
so it's not an issue). My parents have bought me several tickets,
too...so again, I don't have the credit card. HOWEVER, it's nevr been an
issue with checking in, even internationally.

I think the difference is where you buy the tickets. If you buy via a third
party, Expedia or Orbitz, it isn't the airline that is out money if the CC #
is stolen.

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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"Al" wrote in message news:mmKAg.18

My son in law purchased a ticket .......

Al, I recall hearing of such policies being in place for a while after the
WTC and Pentagon attacks. I was unaware that they were still in place. I
think the basis for the policy was security, not CC fraud. Tickets
purchased remotely by a party not travelling were considered somewhat
suspect.

One factor in your daughter's case that jumped right out at me was that
she was using a remotely purchased third-party ticket, and that ticket was
purchased remotely from a mid-east country. These factors may have
combined to raise a series of red flags in the UAL computers.

In any event, I'm glad it has all worked out. God Bless, and my heartfelt
thanks and kudos to your son-in-law when you next talk to him.

Thanks John, he is now so notified. He can't go to a bar around here and Pay
for a drink.

Al G