boarding pass query

miketv

apologies if in the wrong thread
Could somebody help me settle an argument please.
A friend of mine told a tall tale about how he was given a boarding pass on a longhall flight which had the same seat number as someone else. When he was on the plane they discovered this and he was then bumped up to first class. I've never heard of 2 people getting the same seat allocation on a boarding pass once on the plane and wouldn't have thought it possible?
Anybody else experience this..oh the year was 2001 (before sept 11th)
Ta

funk-you

It's possible, mistakes happen all the time.

AH response: He's a lyin' fuck, feed him to the swans.

-Funk

jhegarty

It can happen , but they normally should have corrected it at the gate.

If it was missed at the gate , and class was full , I guess an upgrade was the only solution.

Coriolanus

miketv wrote: »

apologies if in the wrong thread
Could somebody help me settle an argument please.
A friend of mine told a tall tale about how he was given a boarding pass on a longhall flight which had the same seat number as someone else. When he was on the plane they discovered this and he was then bumped up to first class. I've never heard of 2 people getting the same seat allocation on a boarding pass once on the plane and wouldn't have thought it possible?
Anybody else experience this..oh the year was 2001 (before sept 11th)
Ta

They overbook every flight, knowing a certain percentage will turn up late, die on the way to the airport, be arrested by customs etc.
Usually the overflow is caught when they're assigning seats though, your mate just lucked out.

AnonoBoy

Was he Romanian a Roma Gypsy? If so he probably robbed the boarding pass off someone at a cash machine by waving an airline magazine in their face.

Or something.

Micilin Muc

miketv wrote: »

A friend of mine told a tall tale about how he was given a boarding pass on a longhall flight which had the same seat number as someone else.

The Long Hall don't do flights anymore. I don't think they ever did.

RoadKillTs

Wish it would happen to me

Dartz

If you've paid the full ticket price, you're also more likely to get an upgrade. It *does* happen from time to time....

You can also *ask* for an upgrade... if you're feeling really lucky.

orourkeda

Was it a dutchman carrying out a fake bomb threat

Bazzy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

After reading that article I can emphatically state that Holly Sampson has large breasts.

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Generalissimo

4 or 5 years ago I was flying from Miami to Heathrow and had something similar happen to me when someone else was given the same seat as me. The other person boarded first so when I went to board the seat conflict showed up on their system (the airline was scanning all boarding passes at the gate - if it'd been another airline where they only visually check them I'd have been boarded and at my seat before I'd have known someone else had it too). The airline checked for other available seats in economy and when they found there were none they ended up sticking me in business class. Very luxurious it was too.