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How can I prove an airline ticket is fake?
For starters, that's not a picture of an airline ticket! It's a boarding pass of the sort that is printed and given to the passenger no more than a few hours before the flight. That document, if it ...
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How can I prove an airline ticket is fake?
Several indicators show this "boarding pass" to be bogus.
a) The "boarding pass" displays the Thai Airways logo, but Thai Airways doesn't provide service to Seattle (it used to do ...
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How can I prove an airline ticket is fake?
Besides all the flaws already mentioned (it's a boarding pass and not a ticket, boarding passes are not issued days in advance, airline is wrong, flight is non-existent, etc.) a quick easy search (&...
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Two leg journey (BOS - LHR - DXB) is cheaper than the first leg only (BOS - LHR)?
This is a well known pricing strategy by the airlines. Price is mostly based on "What we think we can get" and not on what it actually costs to operate the flight. Non-stops are more ...
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Buying an airplane ticket for someone without a last name/surname
The 2023-2024 Airline Industry Reservations Interline Message Procedures (archive link) issued by the IATA specify that you should write your passenger's name as the last name and use "FNU" (...
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Singapore Airline online booking system only allows 25 characters in the First Name field. What to do if over limit?
I have a friend who has 4 first names and whose last name is 6 words. No kidding... He solved this issue by selecting 2 first names and 2 words of his last name. That fits in just about any ...
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Why were passengers asked to leave infant boarding pass on the seat when leaving then plane?
My presumption is that you've misheard the announcement.
It's far more likely that you were instructed to leave either the infant seat belt (aka lap belt or seat-belt extender), the infant life-jacket,...
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How can I prove an airline ticket is fake?
A short list of incongruities:
Thai doesn't do US domestic flights. Especially not to Podunk, OH. Even in Thailand it doesn't do smaller airports. Its low-cost subsidiary does.
Thai's airline code is ...
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Last name too long
Use the version of your name encoded on your passport.
The first row of the machine readable zone will say something like P<USAWILLIAMS<JOHNSON<<FIRST<NAME, where P<USA means US ...
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Does one need to buy tickets in advance for Deutsche Bahn train?
You need to buy the train ticket before entering the train (the option to buy it online is switched off around departure; and only on some trains you are allowed to buy the ticket onboard against an ...
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Can I use the door leading from Vatican museum to St. Peter's Basilica?
Yes, you can. When you are in the Sistine chapel, there are two exits, the signs aren't particularly prominent, but one will lead you to a corridor the endpoint of which is past the security checks ...
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Two leg journey (BOS - LHR - DXB) is cheaper than the first leg only (BOS - LHR)?
As already explained in another answer, this is a common practice (both the strange pricing and the strategies to get around it). I am familiar with this inside the US, and I find it interesting to ...
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How can I prove an airline ticket is fake?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Regional_Airport
It is used for general aviation and sees one airline, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. The only airline is Contour Airlines, ...
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Singapore Airline online booking system only allows 25 characters in the First Name field. What to do if over limit?
if what you call "first name" is separated by spaces in various parts, you just have to fill in the first of that parts (the one 8 characters long) -
I've never booked Singapore, but I ...
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Dummy ticket for travelling while applying for US visa?
https://ais.usvisa-info.com/en-fr/niv/information/faqs (Despite the funky domain this is an official site) tells us:
Should I book my travel before the interview?
Applicants are strongly advised not ...
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One last name in Passport, Two last names in plane ticket
I also have a Mexican passport that shows my two last names, but it has been expired for several years, since I have not used it in a long time; Is it worth taking it with me just in case?
Yes. It ...
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What to do if the plane/train/bus ticket is stored on the phone and the phone is lost or damaged or stops working?
As a rule, especially if talking about airlines, keep a printout at all times
North America
Amtrak
If you received an eTicket, simply open it in the Amtrak mobile application, or print out another ...
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How can I prove an airline ticket is fake?
A generally consolidated list of issues with this:
This is a boarding pass, not a ticket. Some people conflate the two, but they are very different things.
Boarding passes are only issued within 48 ...
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Can I join a TGV at a later station?
You absolutely can
In both FR and IT, HST are only with compulsory reservation, there are no such things as getting your reservation void like in other countries (D, NL), since there is no concept of ...
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Paris Navigo Easy pass for public transport
There are two different concepts at play here: validation, and tickets.
You have to validate:
Any time you enter the metro network (by going through a turnstile)
Any time you enter or exit the RER ...
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Deutsche Bahn Sparpreis Europa ticket validity
A Sparpreis Europa ticket is indeed not flexible. You are expected to take the trains you selected during booking. However, if you miss a connection due to a delay (or something else that the railways ...
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What do 'skip the line tickets' mean in Italy
I've read about many skip the line tickets- but someone told me- they only allow you to skip the ticketing line- not the security line, is this correct?
Security is usually mandated by law or by the ...
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What to do if the plane/train/bus ticket is stored on the phone and the phone is lost or damaged or stops working?
You say that "the authorities would have thought of some backup plan", that would not be my expectation. Several authorities apparently like to be in trouble when the technology gives ...
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What to do if the plane/train/bus ticket is stored on the phone and the phone is lost or damaged or stops working?
Here is the "no need for paper" answer.
Everything that is printable on paper can (and should be saved) as an electronic copy. That's how it starts anyway.
Collect all of these into a ...
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Singapore Airline online booking system only allows 25 characters in the First Name field. What to do if over limit?
Assuming they actually do have a passport, the link you mention tells you exactly what to do here.
Expanding on what that links is saying though:
Any passport they have should be an ICAO 9303 (or, ...
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Using Pasmo on Chūō Line (Rapid)
Yes. Pasmo, Suica, and other IC cards can be used virtually anywhere in the greater Tokyo area. The Chūō line is one of the important backbones of the area, and yes, accepts IC cards on its entire ...
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Flights not available when trying to book
I have had this issue many times with Skyscanner. It’s a pain to use them because one can’t trust their prices until one actually attempts to book the tickets. They simply seem to update their ...
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How to collect an SNCF ticket abroad?
There is no way for you to collect this ticket. SNCF is not able to produce electronic tickets for domestic Dutch trains. The same problem also often turns up when buying tickets for other countries ...
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Shinkasen Help, what do I do?
You present both tickets at a manned gate, since the automated gates might not let you through. But you'll be fine.
Also, don't use Bookaway for JR tickets. They're an unauthorized third-party service ...
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Will my Navigo Pass be replenishable next year?
A Navigo pass (the phyiscal card) is valid for 10 years. This applies to all the types: Navigo Easy (transferable, can be loaded with single-trip tickets and day passes), Navigo Découverte (personal, ...
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