Birdwatching From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3573 posts, RR: 52 Posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 18804 times:
A Germanwings passenger could not find any size restrictions for the printed boarding pass in the terms and conditions of the web check-in service. So he printed it on a giant poster and brought it to the airport.
Just found this on the Germanwings news stream and it was so RANDOM that I thought I'd share it here
330guy From Ireland, joined Nov 2010, 453 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 18710 times:
Haha, if its on the Germanwings website im presuming they seen the funny side of it...
I wonder what would happen if you turned up for your flight with another certian LCC in Europe what would happen, (id imagine youd be charged excess baggage or something like that haha, maybe a paper fee and maybe a save the tree fee or something like that too haha)
moose135 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 2009 posts, RR: 12 Reply 4, posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 18665 times:
It's good that he didn't try this in the US - he'd be called aside for some "enhanced screening" for being a wise ass...
ZRH From Switzerland, joined Nov 1999, 5534 posts, RR: 40 Reply 5, posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 18531 times:
Haha, don't they say how it has to be printed? For example here in Zurich the Opera or the football clubs say that your ticket has to be printed on a A4 sheet, when you choose "print at home".
alitalia744 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 4657 posts, RR: 45 Reply 6, posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 18340 times:
This was done a few years back by someone flying NWA...
sabenapilot From Belgium, joined Feb 2000, 2697 posts, RR: 49 Reply 9, posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 17335 times:
Finding a girlfriend? What girlfriend?
The picture clearly shows two guys: now, they could be a happy couple too you know... Or is that yet another reason for security screening based on profiling in the US then maybe: alleged gay fanatics!
WingedMigrator From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 2024 posts, RR: 57 Reply 11, posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 16849 times:
Quoting Birdwatching (Thread starter): So he printed it on a giant poster and brought it to the airport.
In the photo, the sign behind the boarding pass says "Size does matter"
BEG2IAH From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 827 posts, RR: 12 Reply 12, posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 14336 times:
Quoting moose135 (Reply 4): It's good that he didn't try this in the US - he'd be called aside for some "enhanced screening" for being a wise ass...
I don't even want to think what would be TSA's reaction to this. The lack of brain power is a given. I have never witnessed that much stupidy and lack of common sense as with DFW TSA. Worthy of a serious scientific study.
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hamad From United Arab Emirates, joined Apr 2000, 1157 posts, RR: 7 Reply 13, posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 13907 times:
i actually see a sense of humor in it! try that with the TSA and guarantee that the next thing we know, a regulation of the boarding pass size limit! haaa!
greenwichsud From United States of America, joined May 2008, 55 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 12050 times:
Methinks that if an American had done this, a certain faction of the forum would have failed to see the humor and focus instead out the wastefulness of the whole stunt - go figure!
goblin211 From United States of America, joined Jun 2010, 1209 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (2 years 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 10936 times:
I wish the US airports had this kind of humor. I wonder if they'd let you on board even, they'd probably kick you off and then someone would sue and we'd never hear about it again. Very funny nonetheless
crAAzy From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 572 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (2 years 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 8847 times:
Quoting PROSA (Reply 20): It's funny, but would it work? It seems to me that the pass would be too large to be scanned, and therefore would not be acceptable.
Boarding passes don't necessarily need to be scanned. They can just enter the seat number into the system when boarding and confirm your information.
redtag501 From United States of America, joined Jan 2009, 24 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (2 years 2 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 8204 times:
I don't know if it's been done yet, but surely someone is going to try to board a flight with a boarding pass printed on a watermelon, harking back to the sixties when it was comically popular to have game show guests deposit large checks printed on the over-sized fruit.
ferminbrif From Venezuela, joined Dec 2010, 91 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (2 years 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 7717 times:
very funny guys....
25 Newark727: The obvious next step is to print a boarding pass on microfilm. (If anyone still uses it.)
26 Sasha: gee when first read the topic text I thought it's about a Passenger of Size who was denied boarding and then printed a large protest poster about it.
27 ThirtyEcho: I suppose he gets his bank all excited when he calls to tell them that he wants to deposit a really big check.
28 airtrainer: I suppose he had enough ink to print a "normal" boarding pass, just in case
29 flybehubby: Ryanair do have a limit.... IN ORDER TO TRAVEL YOU ARE REQUIRED TO CHECK-IN ONLINE AND PRESENT AT THE AIRPORT YOUR ONLINE BOARDING PASS AND VALID ACCE
30 0NEWAIR0: Is that EUR40 as in $60 USD?! ...good Lord... Anyone know if this part existed before the guy's Germanwings stunt?
31 flybehubby: I took that from an email i rec'd off Ryanair on 03 Jan 2011
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