The ticket

It is increasing the practice of electronic ticket, where the ticket is replaced by a printed sheet to the computer that contains information essential and presented at check-in. In fact, the business itself has become a relative value, being rather more important the information recorded in the archives of the airline. However, the standard tickets have the following aspect:

Ticket

At the top of the ticket you have the name of the airline, the passenger name, date of ticket issuance, airport of the start and end (in our case the ticket is round trip and starts and ends in Rome) , the agency that issued the ticket.

The center on next lines are specified in various sections including the flight ticket. In this case we start from Rome Fiumicino to go to Dubai, then to Jakarta and then repeat the journey in reverse. For each line specifies the airport preceded by a symbol to indicate the coincidence (X) or stop (O), the number of flights (EK 96 = Flight 96 of United Arab Emirates), the date and time of departure ( always in local time), state (if it is OK you are on a waiting list, that there is no place on the flight), the period of validity (in this case it was forced to leave that day), the weight kg permitted baggage (20 kg). There are also symbols that identify the tariff category.

Below the amount of certain taxes included in ticket price in effect on this ticket are not included in boarding fees from Jakarta, although it is not highlighted.

Often with the ticket agency well over a flight plan, which show the duration of flights, any intermediate stops (in this case in Kuala Lumpur), the total cost of the ticket, information on time zones Time presented at check-in etc..

At the airport: check-in

Leaving first thing you need to go to the counter for check-in. This is the ticket, deliver the luggage to be put in cargo compartments, submit passports, then have your boarding pass. Check-in is typically 1-2 hours before departure, the agency that sold the ticket says that is the time limit to present.

Normally the airports have two separate areas, sometimes two distinct planes, for boarding and disembarking. In boards hanging in the boarding area are listed all flights departing in the next few hours, every flight is an acronym formed from the letters that correspond to the company (eg, AZ = AlAlbania) and a serial number that corresponds to the flight. The ticket must show the flight number and time of departure, once found on board the flight are the other indications: No bench check-in, opening hours of check-in, delays expected.

Before going to do the check-in baggage must be prepared properly. For checked luggage in the hold of the aircraft using sturdy luggage that can be locked or otherwise fitted with locks. These closures do not of course stop a burglar who by the way can always trim backpacks and bags, but avoid the majority of petty theft due to nosy rummaging side pockets and handbags and luggage are on the slopes or on trolleys. The closure should not be too difficult to open, it could be that during security checks at the baggage X-rays to undergo before boarding of suspicious objects are detected in which case your luggage will be opened by forcing the closures.

It ‘also important that each bag is clearly labeled with your name, address and if you also have the mobile number. If you have not prepared the label home, there are available in the check-in. Better if the label is sewn on the bag, and also there is another inside. It happens often enough that luggage will be lost and sent halfway around the world and only if you can identify you recover them. The checked baggage in the hold may be subject to all kinds of abuse: being trampled, stacked beneath several meters of heavy luggage, get stuck in conveyor belts, falling from carts in the middle of the track etc.. It ‘a good idea to try to remove any straps protruding knot, even the straps of the backpack should be tied as much as possible. Are commercially available bags for packaging bags and often at airports there are points that provide this service. The maximum weight allowed for luggage to be sent in the hold is typically 20 kg per person, while in theory can not be more than two packages per person. The maximum weight is calculated per family, but a piece of baggage must not exceed 32 Kg strollers and cribs are not counted, are worn with hand luggage are taken over by the flight attendant upon boarding.

For hand luggage should instead be very careful that it does not contain, as you need not be wearing the following items:

- Nail clippers, scissors, matches, lighters (in some cases tolerated), knives, camping boxcutters, forks

- Spray cans (those with flammable propellant that could be used as a flamethrower), gas cylinders, oxygen cylinders

- Acids, alkalis, acid batteries containing mercury, mercury thermometers

- Arms, ammunition, explosives, fireworks

If you find these controls in the various items they will be immediately confiscated, and international norms against terrorism.

6 November 2006 are also entered into force in Europe new rules that essentially contain a control of liquids carried in hand luggage. It is important that the liquids are in small quantities and only if necessary, also be any liquid in a container up to 100 ml and placed in a single transparent plastic bag closed size 18 x 20 (-liter). Each passenger can only have up to an envelope. Also, if you take medications (including non-cash) in hand luggage, they should be as small as needed during the flight. Liquids purchased from Duty Free shops are not in the envelope but will be sealed and should not be open before the end of the journey. Liquid means practically everything that is not solid: water, drinks, liquor, baby milk, creams, lotions, perfumes, sprays, gels, pressurized containers such as shaving foam and deodorants, toothpaste, mascara, lip gloss liquid , Nutella, yogurt, melted cheese (Camembert type)!. If you need the transparent bags you can try to buy it, otherwise use an envelope of the kind that is used for foods to put in the freezer and close it with tape.

Even for hand luggage is better to put a label with name, address and telephone number in case of loss you might be able to get him back.

Cabin baggage must not be too bulky and must be one for every passenger, plus possibly a belt pouch and a carrying case from the camera. The maximum size of cabin baggage is typically of 115 cm as the sum of 3 dimensions of baggage (eg 55x40x20), depends on the company. From 6 May 2007, the size limit becomes 56 cm x 45 cm. x 25 cm. The weight limit should be 8 Kg Normally the limits are not controlled, but if you can not put your luggage in the containers you could make some problems.

Prepare your luggage you can check-in.

The check-in desks are numbered, usually have on a sign indicating the company and often the flight side has a rotating belt, used to take delivery of the checked luggage in the hold, and also allows you to weigh the Storage. The ticket and possibly your passport you can either check-in. At this stage the officer checks your ticket on the computer assigns you a place on the plane, there may in some cases require the boarding fees that depend on the airport, take the baggage by hand and puts a strip for each adhesive paper that is very robust and that contains the code of the airport of destination of the baggage (eg FCO = Rome Fiumicino).

During check-in you can request the following things:

- Location of places: smokers (almost lost), window seat, placed in the queue, so instead corridor. The places in the queue are statistically safer in an accident, the posts allow you to see out the window, but a good portion of those have a mid-fuselage wing, which prevents the view corridor allowing the posts to get up without trouble neighbors.

- If you make more of a flight sequence, you can ask to send your luggage directly to the final destination. This allows you to change return flights without having to pack up and redo the check-in, but in case of delays and little time to change planes could be that your luggage can not follow: you reach the next flight (any company) . However, it is the preferred solution, because in the other case you miss the plane too, not just the baggage.

Eventually the employee will return a copy of the ticket, and more are to be used for subsequent flights and the boarding passes, often shaped like a cardboard envelope containing a copy of the ticket. The boarding pass is written on the fly and over time, your place (the row starting with 1 at the bow, business class, to the tail, tourist class, followed by a letter indicating the place, A = window, B = average C = hall etc..), and especially the “gate” with the time of shipment. The gate is the point where the plane docks or the exit to the slopes where you may embark.

Check that one of the cards were stuck slips of which correspond to the code that will be put on your luggage in the hold. For each bag, there must be a slip, which will be useful in case of loss.

To reach the gate you must pass the location of check-in, open to all, to the boarding area, open only to those leaving. Typically, the transition occurs through a police check for the passport and a thorough security check. The latter plans to push through all that you have with you (hand luggage, pouches, cameras, mobile phones, but sometimes keys, watches, purses, belts) through an X-ray inspection They rely on their luggage on a tape, if you use a basket for small parts, you go through a door that indicates magnetic metals and then you take the luggage passed through the beams. If the door sounds at times prompted to remove the metal parts that are playing the machine, sometimes it is ispezionanti with a portable metal detector. The audit identifies all objects to UV rays (see list above). Note that the control X-ray will not damage camera film, cameras, computers and other equipment, and port magnetic or metal detector can damage electronics, memory, etc..

Boarding

In the area of loading usually there are shops, bars and restaurants, and if you are in an area of international flights, there are duty free shops. To reach the gate that has been assigned may have to travel long distances, sometimes even taking the train shuttle that will lead to satellite stations placed in the middle of the tracks (as happens in Fiumicino). Then calculated that it may take 10-15 minutes to reach the gate.

At the gate there is usually a waiting room and a bank of embarkation. When the shipment is opened, the staff of the company checks the boarding pass, holding his ticket and leaving only a small cut. We start then from the aircraft, or via mobile tunnel, or by bus across the tracks, sometimes even walking on the slopes. Remember to turn off the phone, which creates dangerous interference with aircraft equipment.

Going up on the plane the staff checks the boarding pass and head for the place right down the hall (where the corridors are two), then proceed by checking the number of row that is located in the labels high above the seats, to identify your place.

Place the hand luggage in the luggage or under the seat, because for safety during takeoff and landing, there may be untied.

Flight

Icons that light up above your head pointed to the need not to smoke and to wear their seat belts. However, the hostess check that all passengers are in trim before takeoff and landing. This requires that seat belts are fastened and quite narrow, that the seat recliner is lifted, the folding table is closed, that the baggage is around, you do not smoke, you do not use electronic devices.

It is recommended to keep their seat belts as much as possible, because there were no incidents including deaths in the case of air pockets. These occur when the plane passes by a current rising to a downward, with downward displacement of the plane faster than free fall with a consequent impact against the ceiling of everything that is not linked. Are normally very mild and merely annoying vibrations during flight, especially during the crossing of clouds.

During long flights, especially if you are a smoker, elderly, obese, etc.., Agrees to do gymnastics in the legs, when you can get up and walk around the corridor, as the low cabin pressure forced immobility for hours together causing more easily thrombus.

To sleep during the flight you can use the pillow and blanket that is usually given during the long flights. There are also commercially masks to protect the eyes from light and pillows from neck to keep your head straight while you sleep.

During the flight, asking the hostess, you can use video games, computers, CD players. The phone is always kept off (interfere with flight instruments).

There may be a half flight of technical stops or calls, during which almost always must come down.

Landing

Apply the same rules of takeoff: the right seat, no table, restrained, no baggage around. If you sleep you’ll probably wake up to comply with these procedures.

Landing

When you arrive at your destination you will be routed out, where as the case may be necessary to make a queue for passport control, visa from the country, to pay entry fees. Past course-ray security checks and metal detectors.

If you are in transit, that is, you have to embark on another flight, follow the signs “Transit” to avoid detection from the country where you are. Calculated that sometimes it takes a long time to arrive at the boarding gate for the next flight in some large airports may need to take the bus or train to change terminals, and even within the same terminal for the journey on foot can be used more than half an hour.

If you pick up your luggage in the hold of the aircraft sent follow the signs for “Baggage Claim”. Typically you will reach a large hall with several conveyor belts that spin pack. A screen shows the list of flights and arrived at the number of tape or tapes where the luggage will arrive. Often, even on the tape there is a flight number.

Sometimes it is necessary to wait several minutes before getting off the plane and luggage arrive on the tapes. Be very careful to recognize your luggage because anyone can take one bag out of the airport and not his. This does not happen almost never for the purpose of theft, but often enough to distraction. You’ll be amazed at how many people have bags of the same make and color of your and only serve to distinguish small details. The best thing is to always check the label with the name when you take a bag and keep an eye on our luggage which look the same so people do take them inadvertently. The order of removal of the luggage does not always reflect the order of check-in and therefore your luggage might go out immediately while the other end.

If you’re lucky you’ll find all your luggage with them and then you spend the next customs control. Generally there are two lanes, one for those who have nothing to declare, the other for those who transport objects outside of the limits or the market and must pay taxes.

If you arrive at the end with all passengers on your flight are left with their baggage, and nothing remains on the tape (or a suitcase similar to yours …) it means that your luggage is lost. The reasons are many:

- Fell from a cart on the track and will remain there until someone takes him out (which could also be the start)

- Was stolen (rare)

- A mistake was loaded on a plane different from yours and is traveling across the globe.

- Has not had time to switch from one aircraft to another during a coincidence

In any case you should immediately go to the bank lost luggage (should be in the same room of the Baggage Claim) and report the incident, showing the label give yourselves at check-in corresponding to the lost luggage. You will be asked for an address in order to bring your luggage when you arrive directly to your hotel. Let leave the phone where you require information on the situation of the loss, will give you a file number that corresponds to your loss. If the bag still has the identification label of your destination or at least the label of your address, you’ll probably arrive in one, two days or you will find it when you return.

In case of permanent loss or damage is entitled to a refund that is typically $ 20 per kg, unless he has declared the value and paid a different rate. Is not responsible for fragile or perishable.

Overbooking and missed connection

In case of overbooking or in case of missed connection for delayed flights, the company that issued the ticket shall solve the problem of seeking seats on later flights or on flights with different route eventually lead to the same destination, even on other companies. Certainly it can also delay the arrival of days if you are in a period of festivities. Sometimes, when there are no flights available, the company shall give you a free room in a hotel to spend the night.