On 9 Sep 2003 16:26:11 -0700, raylozano@eudoramail.com (Ray
Lozano) wrote:
>Hatunen wrote in message news:<0dhqlv4uapjdf4acnocpco2adbekjuf8ep@4ax.com>...
>>
>> Your screed does not make it clear just who required the
>> documents; was it the ariline or was it the destination country?
>> If the destination country, what, exactly, did you want the
>> airline to do and how are they responsible for it?
>
>Jamaica would have required the documents for entry.
Then if the tickets were denoted with Jamaica as their
destination the airline could do nothing about it. And since you
knew ahead of time this was a requirement and didn't bother to
verify the documents were in your possession until the night
before you were very remiss.
>The original
>itinerary took us from Dallas to Charlotte to Montego Bay. Perhaps we
>could have flown to Charlotte as American citizens, stayed in
>Charlotte at our expense until a family member could send us our birth
>certificates, then fly from Charlotte to Montego Bay.
Only if your tickets to Charlotte didn't show jamaica as your
ultimate destination. And, if you mean differetnt tickets, your
Jamaica tickets would not have survived.
> I would have
>been more than happy to pay US Airways any extra necessary for such an
>arrangement.
>
>> Would a passport have satisifed everyone?
>
>Yes, but a passport is not needed to enter Jamaica.
That's not what I asked.
>> When we're about to make an international flight we make sure all
>> our papers are in order at least a week before the flight, and
>> now you can see why.
>
>Naturally. I lined out everything days before our scheduled departure.
>I made the mistake of assuming our birth certificates were in our home
>files, used on an earlier trip to Mexico, but my wife had moved them
>to safe deposit, with the best of intentions, without my knowledge.
>Simple human error, but I am the wiser for it.
I gather your wife wasn't invovled in the trip planning.
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