How often do you check your boarding pass?
How often do you check your boarding pass after you print it out at home or at the airport kiosks? If you’re like some, you probably don’t.
Omri, one of Jaunted’s contributors, relates a story where a friend’s daughter was traveling overseas for the first time. She “would go through two screening checks, get her ID checked, and manage to board the plane all before anyone realized that she was holding someone else’s boarding pass. She should never have been allowed into the terminal.”
At LAX there are two security checks. The first one is in front of the metal detectors and they’re supposed to check your pass against your ID. No problem there. At the terminal Mary handed her boarding pass to the woman checking in passengers. An alarm went off when it was run under the barcode reader – which should have been a signal that something was amiss – but she was allowed to board anyway.
Only on the actual plane – when Mary found a woman is sitting in her assigned seat – did anyone realize that she was using someone else’s boarding pass. Specifically, she was using that woman’s pass. It turns out that checking in the same person twice – which is what happened at the counters – doesn’t raise alarms. Because why should it?
Boeing parking jets around Puget Sound, the desert
When the economy was better, airlines and air freight companies were placing orders and taking delivery of Boeing aircraft. With the current state of the economy, airlines are delaying taking delivery of the aircraft. As a result, Boeing is forced to park the planes wherever they can around the Puget Sound area, including flying some freighters to the Arizona desert for storage.
…at Boeing Field, three 737 single-aisle jets have been parked outside for many weeks awaiting delivery to Arik Air, of Nigeria. Next to them is a completed but idle AirTran 737… outside Boeing’s single-aisle assembly plant, two 737s originally ordered for a Chinese airline are now repainted in the livery of a Dubai-based airline that doesn’t start service until June.
Because of a global downturn in air traffic, with the airfreight sector particularly hard-hit, many airlines don’t need new jets. In some cases, they can’t use the planes they have committed to take from Boeing.
Southwest spells out plans for New York-LaGuardia service
Southwest Airlines plans to launch service at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in late June. The service will start “with five daily nonstops to and from Chicago Midway International Airport and three to and from Baltimore/Washington International Airport.”
Though the carrier’s entry into the New York market remains modest, its planned service taps into larger networks already established at Chicago Midway and Baltimore/Washington. Southwest said connecting options at those airports offer more than 45 destinations from New York.
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