Question to experienced travelers in both economy and business classes. I fly for work, in business. My daughter is flying privately, same flight, in economy. Long transpacific flight. Daughter never flew business, and I’d love to give her such possibility. But I can’t pay 5000 dollars for her business upgrade...  Do you think we could just swap boarding passes and places? A year ago same situation happened with my son  and flight staff didn’t allow to swap.  But with 2 women - how will they know? Thanks
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Me and a friend are looking at taking a transcontinental flight together. It appears that for this particular flight, business class is $2000 more than economy. This would be too expensive for us to book, but what if we shared? Would it possible for me to fly in the business class seat for the first half of the flight, then swap with my friend who has booked an economy seat? That way we both get to sleep for half of the flight without spending too much money.
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I am traveling from Chennai to Atlanta. M first flight is to Frankfurt reaches at 8 30 AM. My second flight is scheduled at 10 45 AM.   Will the two hours transit time enough for boarding my second flight.  What should be my do's and dont's?  Update  Its more than enough. I was able to make it without any tension.
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I'm planning a trip to South-Korea in April. I was looking at flight ticket prices and found that I can go from Brussels to Seoul (and back) for about 600€. It lands in London however. I then tried to find the same flight but from London (I was expecting I could get the price even more down if I'm not doing BRU-LHR), but no search engine found it and the cheapest was at about 700€.  Here you can see what I'm talking about in action:    It's the same date and everything, and it's much cheaper from Brussels although it lands in London.  Question: This seem really strange.  Why does this happen, and is it possible to buy the ticket from Brussels but only get on the plane from London?
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I'm flying to the USA, from Australia, through LAX and catching a connecting flight 6 hours later, think it's the same ticket, booked all at once. I've never traveled before, and I'm wondering what happens with customs.   Do I collect my bags at LAX so they can be checked? Do I have to check in at every airport or is it all done when I catch the first flight? There are 4 flights on my itinerary.
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I was browsing flight price at Singapore Airlines website, and a one-way flight from SIN to SFO cost this much:    That's quite expensive. I tried browsing around and found that a return flight from SFO to SIN and back to SFO cost much cheaper:    It's really weird because the second ticket includes the exact same flight that cost 1900+, but it's almost half the price. The reason for this counter-intuitive situation is explained in the answers this question   If I am located in Singapore and my intention is to fly one-way to SFO, is it safe to book the flight in the second picture and only board SFO-SIN leg? Will they deny me because I miss the SIN-SFO flight?
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My wife and I are flying to Iceland and we are trying to book tickets but I wasn't sure about the flights.  So I am just asking to clarify. If I leave the US through an airport, do I have to return to the US through the same airport?
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I just bought a Ryanair plane ticket except that I did not see the QR code on the boarding pass, is that normal? the message is &quot;&quot;. thank you.
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I want to go from Panamá to Turkey. There're direct flights of Turkish Airlines that are expensive. And there're flights Panamá -&gt; Istambul -&gt; Baku there're cheaper 2 times of the same airline. The transfer in Istambul takes 6 hours.    Will it be a violation if I buy a ticket Panamá -&gt; Istambul -&gt; Baku and leave in Istambul?
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Recently I traveled with American Airlines. I had a bad experience as I felt they were terribly outdated, so I complained with their customer service, who, ironically, gave me a paper voucher that I can redeem on my next flight.  Now... seems like this paper voucher that looks like a plane ticket can't be used while booking online, is that true?  How I can redeem it? I read somewhere that I have to do a phone reservation and then mail the voucher. Really? That's so outdated
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I want to fly from A to B and have found a connection that is considerably cheaper (or otherwise more convenient) if I first fly from A to C and then from C to B on separate bookings (i.e. purchasing a ticket A to C and then another, different ticket C to B).   Can I do this? What do I need to be aware of?
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Having a global dispersed circle of friend and family, it happened already twice that I needed to travel urgently because of serious personal circumstances. When I had to travel to the deathbed and subsequent funeral of a relative, I even paid twice the price of normal first class ticket for an economy ticket.   When you are confronted with an urgent situation in your family (death or serious illness) how can you find a more economical airfare? I don't mind paying more then normal, but the fares airlines charge you for very short and urgent trips are often outrageous.
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I was offered a job in Brazil and wanted to make sure it was a good place for my kids so booked a flight the morning of the offer for a flight later that morning.  I arrived at airport for my direct flight to Brazil, was issued boarding passes, took the flight but was refused entry upon arrival.  The airline flew me back, but I think they shouldn't have even let me board since I now know Americans are not allowed to enter Brazil w/o tourist visa?  I don't mind paying the cancellation fees but I feel the rest of the cost of the flight should be refunded?  Am I correct?
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Which is correct?     How much is the two fares?      How much are the two fares?
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OK, I will try and stick to the facts to explain this whole situation. I would really appreciate everyone's comments:   Me (Irish passport) my wife (Filipino passport) and 2 year old twins (Irish passports) all live in the UK. My wife has residence here. We are flying from Manchester to Doha. We're Planning to stay 3 weeks. As my wife had a UK residence stamp &amp; EEA Family permit visa, we called the UK home office to just verify if she could travel to Qatar without a Visa. They informed us (recorded conversation) that my wife had the same entitlement to me as long as she was traveling with me. I understand now, that our calls should have been straight to the Qatar embassy in London to Verify. We just took it from the UK Home Office as being correct. We arrive at Manchester Airport. We asked the Qatar Airways check in staff to verify my wife's passport to confirm she is entitled to entry in the state of Qatar. Check-in staff confirmed everyone is OK with my wife's passport as we board our 8 hour flight to Doha with our 2 year old twins. We get to Doha and my wife is refused entry at immigration as they say she requires a visa. Calls are made by Qatar airways to Manchester Airport - Qatar airways admit full responsibility for allowing us to travel when we should not have been allowed to travel. We have to re-book flights at Doha - Qatar Airways just changed our return flight to get us back on the next available flight.  We had to pay to enter a lounge in Doha airport with our own money, just so we can give our children some rest and food. We return to Manchester 8 hours later. The twins' double buggy is missing (still missing to date). I understand my wife didn't have the correct Visa, as we were given false information by the UK home office. But, they should not have allowed us to board a plane with those checks being done. If I had known at Manchester airport, I could have made the journey myself with 1 of my children, and I could have processed the Visa for my wife at our hotel in Doha. But, because were not noticed and all allowed to board, I was never given this option. Are Qatar Airways at fault? Should all our flights be re-instated? Are we entitled to compensation? Should they reimburse our expenses?   This is currently being reviewed by the airline. It would be good to get comments and peoples thoughts.
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Long story short, I had to fly from A (in Spain) to C (in the UK) and I booked two separate flights with the same budget airline, so the actual route was A (Spain) -> B (UK) -> C (UK).  The first flight was delayed by 90 minutes, which means that I was unable to catch the second one (the layover time was around an hour and a half) and had to buy another ticket for the following day (with another airline).  I googled a lot and found mixed responses. Is there any chance I can get a refund for my second flight? I will obviously ask them but I'm unsure what my best course of action is.
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Is there a search engine that considers "mix&amp;match" flight combinations?  My current problem: I need to go from FRA to YLW (Frankfurt/Germany to Kelowna/Canada) on July 29th, and arrive no later than 5pm. The search engines I checked only offer €3000+ flights.  I found a 2-stop combo through LHR and YVR for half that price. I'll probably have to check my baggage out and back in twice, but if the layover times are long enough, who cares?  A real search engine could find that for me (or something that's even better). Or, hell, give me a place to bulk-download the flight schedules from and I'll program it myself (of course I'd also need a way to check seat availability …).  Update: Please read before answering. A search engine which does this should, at minimum, show the flight combination through LHR which I found manually. Note that I need to arrive before 5pm, on the same day.  Also note that this is a generic question; I'm not looking for a specific good flight here -- but the details are useful to illustrate whether an answer is actually valid. :-/  NB: Typo, should have been July 29th.
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Are there online resources for researching seat sizes and leg room of various planes of various airlines?  I'd like to know whether JAL international flight economy class seats are  (compared to a Virgin Australia domestic economy class seat), or whether I'm just imagining it.