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Have you ever printed a boarding pass?
- davidmurphy 16y agoThis makes me happy. =)
- kilian 16y agoNot a single person making a fuss about a "non-standard" boarding pass is something I wouldn't have guessed at all. Happiness all around :)
- sthulbourn 16y agoBritish Airways still throw a hissy fit when ever you present them with an electronic version of the boarding pass. Lufthansa for great justice.
- vetinari 16y agoMaybe depends on the airrport. For me, BA was always cool with boarding pass on the Kindle.
- sthulbourn 16y agoHeathrow T5. Everyone was accepted it up until the gate, at which point they demanded I had a paper copy, which they printed for me.
- vetinari 16y agoI'm not surprised. I've never been to Heathrow without having some kind of trouble (from missed flight, through lost luggage, to security having issue with my contact lenses solution).
- christoph 16y agoHeathrow T1-4 of old maybe... Don't taint the whole airport with the same brush, T5 is an airport from the future my friend, been through there many, many times in the last 12 months and everything about it beats the best the US and Asia have to offer. I only argue because I've got out of their volcanic ash and snow be damned! If you want a bad experience, head to CDG, and see/smell how bad things can really be. Hell, they cancel flights just "because we can".
- kalleboo 16y agoHaha, I hate T5 the most :/ Taking a train within the terminal, the longest security lines within Heathrow... no thanks. It sure looks purdy, but it's really hell to deal with. I don't even think it has mains sockets like the T3/T4 do.
- r00fus 16y agoMy French father-in-law who racks up hundreds of kilo-airmiles a year refuses to fly Air France because of CDG (he prefers Lufthansa).
- sthulbourn 16y agoI hate T5 so much. I was left waiting for my luggage for 3 hours once, which made me miss the last available connecting train. I'm never flying BA again.
- andrewcooke 16y agoSo I guess you weren't fucked royally over christmas when one inch of snow brought T5 to a grinding halt? We received our luggage 5 weeks later and BA refused to reimburse all our costs (we lost a receipt for one train - presumably they think we walked and are going to pocket the cash...)
- zem 16y agoheathrow is seriously the worst airport i've ever been in, in terms of overall experience. and that includes some pretty dilapidated pre-renovation indian airports.
- mansr 16y agoI'm flying from LHR T5 this week. Will try the BA Android app, which worked great flying from ARN earlier this year. The app displays a barcode they scan, so it's pretty much equivalent to using a PDF.
- mansr 16y agoFWIW, everything went smoothly.
- danilocampos 16y agoOh, for sure. I started reading this and kept waiting for the part where he gets tackled by TSA or something. Terr'ist boarding pass, can be used as a weapon, or something. Faith in US travel restored by 1%.
- city41 16y agoThis happened almost 4 years ago though. The TSA has gotten a lot more jaded and hated since then. I'd be curious how something like this would go down today.
- hammock 16y agoWow, did not realize this was from 2007.
- pitdesi 16y agoMy first clue was "logged into nwa.com"
- duck 16y agoI think the biggest factor of the "happiness" was the two airports he went through. I lived in Anchorage for six years and everyone at the airport is about as nice they can get. It is actually a pleasure to wait in the short TSA line. And of course the Twin Cities is the same way and I've had employees there go way out of their way to help. It is a lot bigger though so I can't say it is as much fun waiting in those big lines or finding the right terminal. So... with that said, I think if he did it again today he would have the same result. If he tried at JFK we would probably read about his arrest in the paper tomorrow.
- far33d 16y agoMy wife printed half-size boarding passes to try and save some paper and we go SO much crap at every juncture.
- kd0amg 16y agoDepends on the airport too. I wouldn't be surprised to see a pass like this accepted at CMX, but I would much rather keep my distance should someone try this at ORD.
- InfinityX0 16y agoSounds like the perfect front for a terrorist mission. Pretend to delight. Guard down, chaos ensues. FBI, don't arrest me.
- stretchwithme 16y agogood one. I love it when take something and muck around with our expectations of it. Isn't that one thing art is supposed to do?
- patrickk 16y agoIt would also be cool if you printed your boarding pass to PDF, but instead of printing a giant-sized version, loading it onto an Amazon Kindle and presenting that at the gate. Test Amazon's claim of being just like paper to the limit. Can't see why it wouldn't work.
- reverend_gonzo 16y agoDelta already supports sending you a PDF which you can show on your phone and have it scanned. Did this last time as I was running late to the gate.
- epochwolf 16y agoYou can do this with coupons and an ipad at my local barnes and noble. (They just type in the number. The printed coupons never scan right anyway)
- patrickk 16y agoI was thinking the matte screen and e-ink would be more conducive to scanning successfully with a barcode reader :-)
- Turing_Machine 16y agoMany major airports accept "boarding passes" that are actually 2D barcodes displayed on your mobile phone. I'd expect those would work on the Kindle just fine.
- ENOTTY 16y agoI don't think it'd work since every time I fly, TSA uses a marker to write on my boarding pass...
- rdtsc 16y agoIt would work for TSA, might not work well for your kindle ;-) I can see a smart-ass TSA agent seeing your kindle and nonchalantly mark it with his permanent red marker, then in one fluid "kthxbye" motion give it back to you and move on to the next person in line. You'll complain but they'll just reply back with Amazon's marketing line "It's just like paper!"
- evanw 16y agoIt looks like we've broken his web server. Here's a cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a4-v04rpBwcJ:bbryson.com/bill/2007/10/12/have-you-ever-printed-a-boarding-pass/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=encrypted.google.com https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a4-v04...
- sixtofour 16y agoAnd here's a working link to another site's reprint of the original: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/227456-Have-you-ever-printed-a-boarding-pass- http://www.sott.net/articles/show/227456-Have-you-ever-print...
- perokreco 16y agoThe article is down, but on-topic, I know bunch of large airlines(EasyJet for example) that let you present boarding pass on your smartphone so you do not have to print it.
- mcantelon 16y agotldr: Man prints out his boarding pass in large format. Delight ensues.
- blahblahblah 16y agoGlad he had fun because that's kind of an expensive boarding pass. When I've printed posters at Kinko's before, it usually comes out to about $40 for a 1 meter^2 poster.
- zem 16y agothe sad thing is that my first thought was "as a brown guy, there's no way i'd ever dare to do that".
- rwmj 16y agoReminds me when I printed a boarding pass in "2-up" mode. Of course the 2D barcode on the pass was half-sized and none of their machines could read it.