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Old July 22nd, 2004, 03:42 PM
Markku Grönroos
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Default Singapore - 6 hrs to kill in airport- any bus trips?

Tchiowa kirjoitti:

Markku Grönroos wrote in message ...


Tchiowa kirjoitti:



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Mark Pannell kirjoitti:





doesnt matter where the boarding pass is issued. Did it last month. You just
go through immigration and security as normal except you dont have to check
in.







Easy to believe. How do you "double check". Your file already resides in
the database. Changes to it are hardly generated at any airport just
because you have been outside the transit area. How does the personnel
at counters know whether you have been out or not. Tiotsiiva's friends
at the passport control escort you there?




If you leave the transit area then you return through the Immigration
counter and they can see that the boarding pass was issued somewhere
else. That shouldn't happen if you checked in at the local airport.





Heh heh. I have here one boarding pass/instapkaart (KLM) in hand. There
is no printed piece of information on it where it is "issued".



I see. So the original point of embarkation isn't there? It must be if
this is a direct flight. If not a direct flight, it will be marked
where it was issued and the original ticket stub will be attached. And
it will likely be physically different in appearance if issued in
Singapore rather than somewhere else.


Bull. Folks have appeared in here to tell you by their first hand
experience that it is not as you say. It is true that this boarding pass
of mine has nothing to do with Singapore. But is a direct flight (as you
assume) from AMS to HEL (I was changing planes after a direct flight
from MEX to AMS).

So, those who fly by one flight code (hardly available) from MEX via
AMS to HEL, will be routinely re-checked if they leave the transit area
at Schiphol while those who get their two boarding passes for a flight
from MEX to AMS and for another flight from AMS to HEL both at Mexico
City airport won't be checked ? Is this anyhow reasonable ?

For the shakes of security it is all different if KLM records show that
I have two pieces of boarding passes printed at one location from the
records which indicate that I have one boarding pass printed at the same
location (and for the same route) ?