My boarding pass -- someone else's phone -- O.K.?

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Ranger111

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• Jul 27, 2015

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Folks, this is my super busy time of year, traveling for work, working for work (what a novel idea), etal.

I did do a couple of quick web search tries, but did not find an answer. I will soon be going on a family trip to DSM and we will then be out in the hinterland of grandparents. No internet.

For the plane thing, I have always refused to have a smart phone, except for work. Wife and kids have Iphone 5s. For a boarding pass, can they go ahead and have MY pass on one of their phones (along with their own boarding pass), or will TSA and/or United and SWA get all upset about it?

No real easy way to print out a boarding pass from the relatives remote farm. I could get one at the airport, but in recent years it seems that airlines have made that somewhat of a hassle.

 

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houseofduck

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• Jul 28, 2015

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I believe that each person has to have their own device.

 

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MillauFr

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• Jul 28, 2015

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No that will work fine. I have displayed two boarding passes on my tablet at security. You just need to be quick about switching from one to the other as TSA won't look kindly if you are fumbling around with your phone trying to pull up the second pass.

 

bumbershoot

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• Jul 28, 2015

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Put them into Passbook! So easy to have that up and scroll through.

As for fumbling, I don't care about how a TSA agent feels about that. I could have each person hold their own paper and hand it over in different ways and take longer that way. So flipping through screens is going to be faster anyway. Passbook is easy so do that, but don't do it for TSA's sake.

Should mention that I've only had mine and my 11 year old's passes so far. Not sure about another adult. DH generally has his own travel arrangements for leisure in case he has to leave separately.

 

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jec6613

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• Jul 28, 2015

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It's best to get a printed pass, but you can share a smartphone for boarding passes with a spouse, child, or parent to get through the TSA.

To get on the aircraft, you cannot share a phone's boarding pass on some airlines, so call the airline and ask.

 

dis_guy

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• Jul 28, 2015

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jec6613 said:

It's best to get a printed pass, but you can share a smartphone for boarding passes with a spouse, child, or parent to get through the TSA.

To get on the aircraft, you cannot share a phone's boarding pass on some airlines, so call the airline and ask.

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Lots of very experienced flyers prefer to have a paper boarding pass. It's good documentation should something go wrong with your reservation/dead device battery, etc. My experience has been if crossing an international border the airlines expect you to have a paper boarding pass and will print one when they check your passport if you don't have one already.

 

JustCallMeMommy

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• Jul 28, 2015

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Delta's app specifically said that each person needed their own device. I assume that is to facilitate fast boarding lines. In any case, even though DD and I both have smart phones, I still opted to use a kiosk and print our passes as I didn't really want an app on DD's phone where she could mess with her reservation. Silly, I'm sure.

 

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jec6613

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• Jul 28, 2015

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dis_guy said:

Lots of very experienced flyers prefer to have a paper boarding pass. It's good documentation should something go wrong with your reservation/dead device battery, etc.

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I actually go to the counter to get the old heavy stock ones.

 

Fire14

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• Jul 28, 2015

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99% of time SWA has printed a BP for me even when I have it on phone. There is also thingies to do it in Orlando airport for SWA

 

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lost*in*cyberspace

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• Jul 29, 2015

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jec6613 said:

I actually go to the counter to get the old heavy stock ones.

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I don't know about other airlines, but United prints their boarding passes on very thin paper. I don't understand the need to have one printed on heavy paper; just wastes more trees.

 

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jec6613

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• Jul 30, 2015

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lost*in*cyberspace said:

I don't know about other airlines, but United prints their boarding passes on very thin paper. I don't understand the need to have one printed on heavy paper; just wastes more trees.

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AA's kiosk stock is thermal paper, which is pretty terrible for the environment, but I prefer the thick paper BPs because they tend to remain readable, especially when you get six printed for a two week long itinerary all at once, the thermal ones don't last that long. Also, sticking luggage claim tags to them works better.

AA still uses the old fashioned heavy paper stock, along with everybody else in OW I've flown on.