On 28 Aug, 17:05, Tom Peel wrote:
> Binyamin Dissen schrieb:
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> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:49:42 GMT Craig Welch wrote:
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> > :>auzerais wrote:
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> > :>> But for
> > :>> the last several years, I just go to the airport, swipe my credit card
> > :>> in the kiosk machine and it prints out my boarding pass. Never had to
> > :>> show anything like an e-ticket I had printed out to anyone.
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> > :>Exactly.
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> > :>So much for 'positive identification', eh?
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> > Will someone inform the clueless to the fact that pretty much anyone with some
> > computer skills can create a boarding pass?
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> I'm not sure about that. The LH ones have some kind of 2-dimensional
> barcode on them. Whether the machine at the gate reads them or not, I
> have no idea. Certainly security doesn't.
At some airports security does scan the bar-code (your photo is taken
at the same time). Some home printed boarding passes cannot be
scanned properly and the passenger has to go all the way back to check-
in and then to the back of the security queue.
It is one reason I always get check-in to print the boarding pass.
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