If you worked for Air Canada would you have made this joke?

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

Last December when using express check in for my familes flight to Tampa, my Dad forgot to put in the information to print my boarding pass. We asked an Air Canada employee & she said they can print it where we would get our checked bags taged. So we go up there & tell the Woman what happened & if she can print of my card? She says no problem & because we forgot to print it at the express check in machine, there would be a $25.00 fee. My parents were just about to say can we speak with a manager, then she said it was joke. Well we thought she was serious because she sure sounded serious. Anyway I can take a good joke, but because of that situation do you think it was right to make that kind of joke?

 

[F4disneyfan]

That is a great joke and I would have made the same joke or one along the same lines I may have even said well since you forgot we will have to delay your departure and send you on the next flight or somethign along those lines LOL.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

I forgot to mention that after the fact we realized we could have went back to the express check in machine & just printed off my boarding card. Although we would have had to wait in that line again & who knows if we would have had to enter the adress of where we were staying, my passport number & all the other things you do for the 1st boarding card when you use Air Canada's express check in.

 

[minnie56]

I probably would have...that's kinda my sense of humour too???

 

[drag n' fly]

Funny...just not very professional...travelling can be stressful without some smart alec throwing their 2 cents in!

 

[RoyalCanadian]

I would have made just such a comment, and I know several AC staff who would make just such a comment. It is just these people with whom I have struck up a rapport in the few minutes of checking in my luggage and managed to get an upgrade in return for a few minutes of levity.

I was checking in for a flight from YEG to YYZ -- gave my Aeroplan information to the ticket agent and joked that I would love an upgrade, just like the one's claimed by the passengers ahead of me. She could see my travel history right there and see that I had 9000 Aeroplan miles and joked that I would need a lot more to get anything like that. We bantered back and forth for a few minutes with comments like "You do not have even enough to get a cup of coffee."

Someone else might have taken those comments as rude. I laughed, the agent laughed and we went our separate ways -- me with my coach class boarding pass and a smile.

I never did see that agent again, however her co-workers at the flight gate obviously knew who I was when I tried to check in for the flight. They requested my boarding pass and took great joy in ripping it up in front of my eyes and those of every other passenger on that 767 out of Edmonton that night. In its place I was given boarding passes for Executive First seats for myself and my fiancee. With nearly fully reclining seats with leg rests, double mixed drinks served just before take-off in both Edmonton and Calgary, gourmet meals, and champagne & orange juice served in the morning, there just wasn't much better happening on this particular red-eye flight into Toronto.

Their job is stressful enough as it is -- and I think everyone knows that no airline charges anything to print a boarding pass. Give the AC staff a break and enjoy the fun with them.

 

[eryn the pooh]

Jokes make the day go faster and this really didnt sound like a mean or bad joke. At least she didnt try and PUNK ya!! Relax bud.

 

[Scratch42]

I would have come back with a retort of..............

Really, I would have thought it be $50.00!



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[Debbie]

Yeah, When I am asked a favour, I often reply: "Sure, but it'll cost ya!"