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Old September 24th, 2008, 09:29 AM posted to rec.travel.air
Graham Harrison[_3_]
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Default Planes in Europe


"Janet Wilder" wrote in message
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I just picked up all of my documents from the travel agent today. We will
be doing 3 flights within Europe. One from Paris to Budapest, one from
Amsterdam to Seville (with a change of plane in Madrid) and one from
Seville to Barcelona.

They are all e-tickets. I won't have a printer so I can't get boarding
passes. Do we just go up to the check-in counter and show them the copies
of the schedules the TA gave us? I'm assuming that they will not speak
English.

TIA,
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Janet Wilder
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I think maybe the only place in the world where I have checked in and found
that *nobody* spoke English was a grass strip served by a twice weekly twin
otter in the Himalayas in Nepal. Otherwise it has never been an issue.

As for check in any good hotel should be able to help you with their own
equipment or, at a pinch, they should be able to point you at an internet
cafe nearby. You will find that, in airports, there are more and more self
service check in machines - the easiest way to make them work is slide the
credit card you used to pay for the ticket into the appropriate slot but
there are other ways such as typing in your 6 character booking reference
(the one issued by the airline not the reservations system used by your
agency but they could be the same) or even your name and flight number.
You may have to select your language. In the end there are always people
around you can ask and old fashioned check in desks.