Delta Airlines' credit card policy for boarding passes

[canada-man]

Beware! Air Canada does not do this nonsense all you need is your passport.
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After spending a wonderful week visiting my cousins Melvyn and Diane in London, my wife and I headed to Heathrow Airport.

When it was our turn to use a kiosk to print our boarding passes, the machine instructed me to swipe the credit card used to purchase our tickets.

The problem: I didn’t bring all my cards with me, and the one I’d used to buy our tickets was at home.

The kiosk gave me no other option to start the check-in process. It wouldn’t let me enter our trip’s confirmation code, as I had done in Seattle before boarding our flight to London, or put in a ticket number.

My wife and I were directed to a Delta supervisor, who explained that without presenting the credit card used to purchase the tickets she could not issue our boarding passes.

The agent explained that Delta’s policy protects us from credit card fraud.

But we could verify our identities: We had passports and driver’s licenses. And Delta let us board our flight to London without presenting the credit card.

Delta Air Lines’ bizarre credit card policy nearly stranded me in London

After spending a wonderful week visiting my cousins Melvyn and Diane in London, my wife and I headed to Heathrow Airport.

komonews.com

 

[Giselle Montreal]

The credit card fraud detection is the job of the people behind the website and credit card company, not the flight agents and the airport. Everyone has 2-3 credit cards today, and we don't bring them all when traveling. And one person can buy for another; a father buys his daughter a ticket for her to come home (edit: I had not finishedd reading the article when I wrote that. Not surprised it's an issue). I don't see how it could help detecting fraud.

And what happens if your flight is 5 monther later after purchase, and in the meantime your card get stolen so your bank has to issue a new one, with another number? It could happen to anyone.

 

[Nickelodeon]

I agree that this sucks. I think the only solution is to have a dedicated travel credit card, ie. use this card for all your travel plans. The one I used is Canadian bank issued US currency card so that I don't mix it up with my other credit cards. Also helps avoid currency conversion in the US.

 

[canada-man]

"If you bought it from Expedia however, it's Expedia that makes the payment to Delta and thus you're exempt from having to show the physical card."

Showing credit card for international flight purchased with online travel agency

I recently purchased a ticket for my friend to fly from Argentina to the US. He will be flying with Delta. I am concerned that he will be asked to show my credit card at the check-in desk, but he d...

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if you are flying with delta buy through expedia?

 

[jalimon]

"If you bought it from Expedia however, it's Expedia that makes the payment to Delta and thus you're exempt from having to show the physical card."

Showing credit card for international flight purchased with online travel agency

I recently purchased a ticket for my friend to fly from Argentina to the US. He will be flying with Delta. I am concerned that he will be asked to show my credit card at the check-in desk, but he d...

travel.stackexchange.com

if you are flying with delta buy through expedia?

Reimbursement on Expedia works. It's doable. But it's a nightmare. A big waste of time.

When Covid hit I had 5 airplane tickets already booked. All for work. American Airlines reimbursed me 2 tickets. Expedia credited 2, but it was a awful pain to get the credit, and it was no way near original value. Air Canada basically told me to fuck myself with the single flight I had booked with them.

 

[canada-man]

i guess i will fly with United and AA if i will do connecting flights through the U.S to the Caribbean and Latin America

 

[xix]

I will drive to Moosonee and avoid silly behaviors.

 

[seanzo]

I will drive to Moosonee and avoid silly behaviors.

There are no roads to Moosonee. Your opinions are train, plane or freight canoe

 

[drlove]

This also appears to be extending to hotels as well. More than once, I was asked to show the specific card I booked the room with at the front desk. I had it with me, so no issue. However, it got me thinking, what’s the point of this policy? After all, in the grand scheme of things what difference does it make? Maybe I booked it using a travel card, but decide I’d rather earn cash back instead… My card, my choice.

 

[xix]

There are no roads to Moosonee. Your opinions are train, plane or freight canoe

Yeah I know unless I find the logging roads.
I will take the plane, I 've read the stories about trains.

 

[xix]

This CC sounds to me like another control game. The Chinese do this must register with police when leaving and entering a city.
Future Pazi regime?

 

[seanzo]

Yeah I know unless I find the logging roads.
I will take the plane, I 've read the stories about trains.

Logging roads don't go that far north. Once you get to highway 11 in Northern Ontario it's basically all bush and muskeg till you hit the James/Hudson Bay frontiers. Even if by some miracle you are able to find a contiguous path all the way to the sea, you will be hopelessly and utterly buggered if something bad happens to you. I've been up in that neck of the woods before, to say it's inhospitable is putting it lightly

 

[xix]

Logging roads don't go that far north. Once you get to highway 11 in Northern Ontario it's basically all bush and muskeg till you hit the James/Hudson Bay frontiers. Even if by some miracle you are able to find a contiguous path all the way to the sea, you will be hopelessly and utterly buggered if something bad happens to you. I've been up in that neck of the woods before, to say it's inhospitable is putting it lightly

Okay that is what I figure.
Maybe you can help me with a trip I am trying to do in 5 years from now.
I am trying to get to Low Shoal Island from Moosonee. Are there any bush pilots that could drop me off there from Moosonee airport? or any airport?

I know I can train from Cochrane to Moosonee
or fly from Timmins or Cochrane depending on the season.

Thanks.

 

[seanzo]

Okay that is what I figure.
Maybe you can help me with a trip I am trying to do in 5 years from now.
I am trying to get to Low Shoal Island from Moosonee. Are there any bush pilots that could drop me off there from Moosonee airport? or any airport?

I know I can train from Cochrane to Moosonee
or fly from Timmins or Cochrane depending on the season.

Thanks.

Afraid not, I've only been up there once and I was 13 years old at the time. Went on a fishing/grouse hunting trip with my father and some of his friends. From looking at Google satellite maps of the place, I'm guessing your best bet to get there would be by boat from Moosonee. I suppose it's possible to get there by sea plane....but I personally make a point of not traveling by sea plane. It's a bit too sketchy for my liking. If you don't mind me asking, what in God's name has you wanting to go all the way up there for?

 

[xix]

No radio or any kind of air signal but satellite phones. Just want to be away from the crazy people. IT seems people in Sweden go north of their country to do this cleanse from the RF signals.
Hopefully no Bears of any kind.

DCC251006

 

[seanzo]

No radio or any kind of air signal but satellite phones. Just want to be away from the crazy people. IT seems people in Sweden go north of their country to do this cleanse from the RF signals.
Hopefully no Bears of any kind.

There will be all kinds of black bears and the potential for running into polar bears too. I'd be much more concerned about the polar bears than the black bears