Oh my, what a close call! There are certain mistakes frequent flyers simply don't make, or at the very least shouldn't make -- arriving at the airport three hours before departure, not taking laptops or liquids out of your bag in the US, and arriving at the airport with expired documents, for example. I'll even…
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Heh. As soon as I read the "passport expires in June" I knew where that was going. 😉
Of course, only because I was alerted by the title to be on the lookout for looming catastrophe... 🙂
FortFun, I'm not writing a murder novel here. I didn't feel *that* much of a need to keep you on the edge of your seat. 😀
I have been known to arrive at the airport three hours before departure, and I consider myself an expert traveler. The newbie's mistake is thinking that they NEED to be at the airport three hours before departure.
Thanks for the passport reminder. My partner's expires sometime in 2010, so I guess we should address that issue sooner that later.
You're right Gene, there definitely are cases in which we arrive several hours early, but we actually sort of have a reason. What cracks me up is those that arrive at the airport three hours early for a domestic flight that's scheduled to leave at 6AM.
Well, Ben, some people just like to enjoy the cosy comfortable atmosphere at their local RCC for 2 hrs and 30 minutes 😉
So in a way, your seat obsession saved your trip, eh? And the F cabin would almost have gone out empty.
I know someone who showed up at the airport for an international flight without knowing he needed a passsport to travel overseas.
Yeah, if you hadn't been in the F cabin you hoped would end up almost empty, it would've been the ultimate irony 😉
Plus, you're sure you're leaving next weekend, right 😀 (Okay, now I'm just being mean).
Wait a minute. Your Dad is driving to Miami? He hasn't learned anything from you about earning miles and points. He could go TPA-IAD-SFO-SEA-IAD-MIA and back again.
At least you got warned - I left Darwin Australia for Indonesia with exactly 6 months left on my passport, but landed just after midnight. This basically made my passport invalid. Suffice it to say that after some long discussions, I was allowed to stay in the country with the rest of my family, which, for some strange reason had passports that expired a day later than mine.
You can get a one year extension in a day? Getting a new passport from many EU country takes at least a week, they aren't "made in the USA". The consulates send the information back to capital and the passport is generated there and send back to the consulate.....
I didn't know germans were that anal about their titles "Certified copy of your German doctorate certificate if you would like to have your German doctorate degree entered in your passport". How does a PhD title help you enter a country?