{"id":388,"date":"2007-10-12T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T02:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/2007\/10\/12\/have-you-ever-printed-a-boarding-pass\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T17:32:29","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T02:32:29","slug":"have-you-ever-printed-a-boarding-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/2007\/10\/12\/have-you-ever-printed-a-boarding-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever printed a boarding pass?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well this little feat has been a long time coming.\u00a0 For those of you who have worked with me in Unalakleet you probably have heard about my aspiration of using the poster printer to print my boarding pass.\u00a0 Well two days ago my dream became a reality.\u00a0 I logged onto nwa.com and checked in for my flight.\u00a0 Selected my seats and chose the option to print my boarding pass.\u00a0 Well as you know Mac computers make it super easy to print things as a PDF file instead of to a printer.\u00a0 So thats what I did.\u00a0 I was on two different flights and both boarding pass tickets were on the same page stacked on top of each other.\u00a0 This wouldn’t do I need each boarding pass to be on a different print out to really dramatize the “Big Boarding Pass”.\u00a0 So I took a screen shot of each individual one and then took them over to the poster printer.\u00a0 Each one printed out to be about three feet wide and about 1.5 feet tall.\u00a0 I put them in a picture tube and flew to Anchorage.\u00a0 My flight was on Hageland which doesn’t require a boarding pass, so none needed for the first leg of my trip.<\/p>\n

After my arrival at Anchorage I got my bags checked and headed to the TSA security screening area.\u00a0 Rebecca tagged along to take some pictures from a distance as I made my way through security.\u00a0 I flashed my MVP card to the first TSA lady who let me into the MVP line without the need for my boarding pass.\u00a0 Then it came to the person that checks your ID with your boarding pass just before the screening area.\u00a0 Here is how it played out.<\/p>\n

The TSA agent asked for my I.D. and boarding pass.\u00a0 I handed him my I.D. and then unrolled the boarding pass.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

After a look of surprise he said “Is that your boarding pass?”\u00a0 I told him “Yeah… I didn’t have any other printer at work, and was running late for my flight”.\u00a0 He told me to stand back and called on his radio for his supervisor.\u00a0 He took my boarding pass and headed back toward the main TSA desk which was on the other side of the metal detector.<\/p>\n

\"Showing<\/a><\/p>\n

The supervisor came over and they exchanged a few words.<\/p>\n

\"Supervisor\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He came back to me and said “Okay… You are going to need to carry this through the metal detector with you.”\u00a0 and he let me on through with a smile.<\/p>\n

\"Okay\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I made it through the metal detector, and didn’t even get an extra pat down or anything.\u00a0 So that was nice.\u00a0 My backpack needed another scan.\u00a0 It usually does with the pleathra of hard drives and extra batteries that I always have with me.\u00a0 So while that was happening a TSA agent came over and asked if he could look at the giant boarding pass.\u00a0 I handed it to him.\u00a0 He took it back to their little area and laid it out on a table.\u00a0 He called over all of his TSA buddies and they all hovered over it checking it out.\u00a0 I heard comments like..<\/p>\n

“Thats an official boarding pass?”<\/p>\n

“yeah..\u00a0 Look it has everything, just really big”<\/p>\n

“Man.. how’d he get it so big?”<\/p>\n

“He must be an architect or something.”<\/p>\n

I finally got my backpack and headed over their way.\u00a0 They all had smiles on their face and said that I was very original.\u00a0 I told them I was hoping to lighten their day a bit, and thanked them for having fun with it.\u00a0 Here is a picture with one of the TSA guys.<\/p>\n

\"TSA\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I then headed down to my gate.\u00a0 When I got to the check-in place. The agent asked for my boarding pass.\u00a0 I unrolled it and he started laughing.\u00a0 Mentioned somthing about not being able to scan that and just typed in my seat number and told me to have a nice flight.<\/p>\n

After my extremely long flight down to Minneapolis I headed into the World Club (NWA’s rendition of the Board Room).\u00a0 When you enter their facility with an Alaska Airlines board room pass you need to show them a NWA ticket to get in.\u00a0 So I handed them my board room card and unrolled my boarding pass on the counter.\u00a0 The two ladies looked at each other and started laughing.\u00a0 They called over the other people working in the world club over to take a look.\u00a0 They asked me if I had won a trip or something.\u00a0 I told them that I was just doing it to get a smile out of people.\u00a0 They laughed and told me to have a nice day.\u00a0 One of them said that they’d like to see the gate agent try to scan that thing in.<\/p>\n

After my 4 hours of sitting in there waiting for my final flight, I headed over to my gate.\u00a0 When I went to check in there I unrolled my other ginormous boarding pass, and the lady just started laughing and said “is this for real?”.\u00a0 I told her that it was and so she punched in my seat number into the computer just like the last one had and said “can I have that?”.\u00a0 I said “sure, can I get a picture with you?”.<\/p>\n

\"MSP<\/a><\/p>\n

So it turned out to be a good trip.\u00a0 Everyone involved really seemed to enjoy the whole thing.\u00a0 I wish I could have gotten a little video of the encounters, but that would have been pretty difficult to pull off all by myself.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy the story.\u00a0 It made my long journey just that much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well this little feat has been a long time coming.\u00a0 For those of you who have worked with me in Unalakleet you probably have heard about my aspiration of using the poster printer to print my boarding pass.\u00a0 Well two days ago my dream became a reality.\u00a0 I logged onto nwa.com and checked in for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}